how active?

[K1LOS]

Hello everyone,

just curious how active everyone's columbian red tails are.

I recently got one, about a month back. He is in "ambush" mode 100% of the time. By ambush mode i mean, just the tip of his nose sitting out of his hide, and thats it. I don't know if he moves around inside the hide or not, i can't see, but it doesn't seem like it. When i take him out to handle him he is pretty active and curious.

Last time i took him out, when i returned him to his cage he chose the warmside instead of the cool end. But he always just stays in the same hide until next time i take him out, and then maybe he'll choose the other side.

It shouldn't be a hunger thing because i am feeding him once a week, every thursday, and he still has a lump from last week. He has been getting fuzzy rats, and last week a mouse that was slightly larger then teh rats, but smaller then the widest part of his body still. But still he waits....

I haven't actually measured the humidity, i have just been spraying 2x a week. Could that be the issue. I'll switch the humidity guage out of the cham enclosure for the day tomorrow and see what i get.

I will take a picture of his cage, and post the current temps right on the photo. I'll try and get that up tomorrow.

Is this normal, or is something wrong?

Geoff