Active soon after eating, but...

I'm having an odd night. My male yearling-or-so ball just ate his usual adult mouse earlier, but is already climbing the walls again. I checked for a regurge, but there's not one. He hasn't outgrown them yet either, I don't think. If he's any fatter than they are, it's only slightly. I just got him off 2-3 hopper meals around Christmas, it was a huge battle.

His temps are same as always (90, 80), humidity is 50-60% (the usual range since I switched to aspen a long while back), he has fresh water, the tank is mostly-covered and quiet and all that good stuff.

The only thing different is that he did leave a huge poop earlier today, so he's all empty save for this one mouse, but I can't imagine it'd make that much difference, would it?

He is really active, I'm not sure *what* to think, heh. He won't give himself a regurge, will he?

I'm really hoping he'll settle after the next meal or two (I feed every 7 days, I may go to every 6 for a while). If he's outgrown the adult mice already, I'll have to get out the small rats in the freezer again...and the last time I tried switching him, it was a disaster, he went off feed, the whole shebang.

It will be fine. It is likely just responding to the higher temps and humidity the past day or two. How much warmer is it outside today than yesterday down there? 20-30 degrees? It makes a difference.

The weather here hasn't changed, I just checked weather.com

And it wouldn't affect temperatures indoors and inside his tank either, I'd think?

Well, you could try just giving him a second mouse and see what happens, as opposed to trying a rat?

Originally Posted by Cat_72

Well, you could try just giving him a second mouse and see what happens, as opposed to trying a rat?

He's nowhere near big enough for TWO adult mice, though, and that's all I have.

The animal is a year old and can't eat two mice? The weather has not changed at all? I am directly north of you and the weather here has varied as much as 40-50 degrees from one day to the next.

I'm surprised that at a year old, he isn't big enough to eat 2 mice? I have much younger balls that will eat 2 comparably sized rat pups in a single feeding without hesitation and do just fine. How big is he?

Originally Posted by evansnakes

The animal is a year old and can't eat two mice?

The adult mice I have are pretty big. And I think his growth was probably stunted a little, because he refused to eat anything but hoppers until the last couple months, and missed a bunch of meals this winter (including a random three-week fast). He didn't get real bony, but he didn't get much growing nutrients either, probably.

Originally Posted by Cat_72

How big is he?

I just took some pics this morning, so:





Mind you, I have little girly hands like a twelve-year-old, so don't go thinking those are normal-sized hands there.

Well..not being certain just how big "girly 12 year old" hands are, lol (my 13 year old son's hands are much bigger than mine!)....but IMO he looks plenty big to be able to eat 2 mice.