[jo65]

Congratulations -they are gorgeous, I am a sucker for babies.

 

[jo65]

I was looking after my niece's meeces last year during the really hot weather and sought advice from a friend who suggested that I chill a ceramic tile (in tact, not broken), in the refrigerator then place it in the cage as a coolant. I know its the opposite for lizards as we have to heat a ceramic tile (well a slate one anyway) for my daughter's bearded dragon.

 

[jo65]

So sorry you lost some of your rats fuzzymom. A slate tile is in the viv and is heated up by the heat of the lamp in there, just in the hot spot below the branch where the Beardie basks. When researching with breeders here a few said that that's what they did. The Beardie doesn't have a hot rock cos they can burn them.