Minerva always basks shortly after her lights click on. Sometimes for ten minutes, sometimes for forty minutes. Usually for ten though. It just seems to be a normal response to the light, regardless of what how warm the room is. One end has an undertank heater anyway, but she's usually in the cool half.

She was soaking so much when I first got her I thought she might be semi-aquatic. Nope. Just dehydrated. If she has damp spahagnum to slither around in she doesn't soak much.

I don't have anything I need to buy pinkies for, so there's never an extra to give her. I just use calcidust once a week and stick with bugs, plus the occasional treat like egg yolk or tuna. She doesn't seem to like fruit, but just in case she needs some I feed the roaches a lot of it. She eats mostly roaches and nightcrawlers. She's a pretty smart hunter; she's figured out how to shake roaches off of their wings so she can just eat the good parts!
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0.1 Coastal Carpet Python (Boots)
0.1 Western Hognose Snake (Bebe)
0.1 Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)

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