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If I were to compare our husbandry for a second here I`d note that your humidity seems a little high, not by much though. I do spray mine every day and it`s gets to about 70% then cycles down to 50% or so, then along I come the next night and spray it back up to 70%
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Im sorry but this is wrong info. Baby BRBs need at least 90% humidity or close to it. There is a difference though between the enclosure being wet and the humidity high though. As they get older they can survive with a little less humidity like around 70% but never 50%. There are a few goofy care guides online that say its fine, but everyone that breeds them successfully that I have ever talked to has told me 90%+ as babies. Their skin resists scale rot. I am NOT saying that they are immune, but they do resist it. They thrive in very very very high humidity, but if they cannot get to a dry spot in their enclosure they will get scale rot. It does take a good long while for them to develope scale rot though. I know this info from experience from my brb and I made the mistake of keeping it wet and thinking the wetter it was the more humid. But I digress.
Anyways I think you are overfeeding the snake. You would be fine with one appropriately sized rat every 10 days and then scale that back after about a year to one appropriately sized rat every 14-18 days. If you feed them too much they will have a very runny poop, because they don't digest if fully. They also can develope health problems. You sound like you were powerfeeding which is trying to get the snake bigger faster, and that is not really recommended.
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