Okay so I just wanted to thank all you guys for the replies and suggestions with my retic. She's still not taking frozen mice, not even fresh wapped,still jumping around mice. I guess that's okay for the time being. I went out and picked up 3 mice today and they hit the ground running from the snake. She was a monster. I killed one of the mice and sure enough she wasn't interested in a mouse that'd been dead for less than a minute. I'm sure she'll get over that. I knew she was going to eat the moment her tongue flicked out and smelled mice her personality did a 180 and she was out for blood. yayness..anyways I don't mean to babble. I went out and got a dome with a ceramic socket as suggested by someone on my thread, a CHE (yup suggested) and a radio shack thermometer with a probe (suggested). All works well and i'm real confident about her well being now. Here are some pictures of her enclosure i bult last week. You may notice that the corners are brown, thats because I didn't let the silicone dry before i cut out the hole in the top and well now there's wood dust in it but oh well, not bad for my first custom bult cage. I also took some pictures of our 3 hatchling painted turtles. one of them is pictured taking a guppy from my brothers hand.
Anyhow, thanks a million guys, I'll be posting more photos in the future as she grows. Take care! ;D
