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Aunt J
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I have two females who haven't been eating well for the last week. I know it's likely too soon to worry, but they are also both acting listless, and I'm just worried. Can someone please advise if I need to take them to the vet or if not yet, how long I should hold off before taking them?
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Tank is 18x24, a big hide and a smaller moist hide on the heat, plus hiding spaces behind the hides. Also two hides and some fake plants and things for them to hide behindon the cool side. UTH set on a thermostat to 90 degrees. I check the temps with an infared about every day to make sure everything's working, consistently 90-92 on the heat, and 72-85 off the heat. Also water, calcium dish and mealie dish in the cage. They are on playsand, but they are both pretty big (40 g and 50 g), also they seem to be going to the bathroom okay -- although I can't be sure they are both going, I have assumed so by quantity and fecal matter looks normal ... I can't think what could be putting them off?
I have a big bowl of mealies in there with them, and maybe they are eating when I'm not around, but the number of mealies doesn't seem to me to have decreased over the last week. I generally tweezer feed them a few mealies every other day or so to make sure they are getting enough food and supplements, but they are totally refusing to eat even with the tweezers. I've tried mealies and superworms and crickets. One of them has always ignored crickets, but the other got really excited for them before I switched her to mealies, so I've tried crickets too, but she just ignored them and even lay there and let them crawl on her, so I took the crickets out...
Is it too early to worry? It just strikes me as strange they would both decide not to eat at the same time? Do I take them to the vet? Try to tempt them with waxworms? Try silkworms? Wait it out?
Relevant details:
Tank is 18x24, a big hide and a smaller moist hide on the heat, plus hiding spaces behind the hides. Also two hides and some fake plants and things for them to hide behindon the cool side. UTH set on a thermostat to 90 degrees. I check the temps with an infared about every day to make sure everything's working, consistently 90-92 on the heat, and 72-85 off the heat. Also water, calcium dish and mealie dish in the cage. They are on playsand, but they are both pretty big (40 g and 50 g), also they seem to be going to the bathroom okay -- although I can't be sure they are both going, I have assumed so by quantity and fecal matter looks normal ... I can't think what could be putting them off?
I have a big bowl of mealies in there with them, and maybe they are eating when I'm not around, but the number of mealies doesn't seem to me to have decreased over the last week. I generally tweezer feed them a few mealies every other day or so to make sure they are getting enough food and supplements, but they are totally refusing to eat even with the tweezers. I've tried mealies and superworms and crickets. One of them has always ignored crickets, but the other got really excited for them before I switched her to mealies, so I've tried crickets too, but she just ignored them and even lay there and let them crawl on her, so I took the crickets out...
Is it too early to worry? It just strikes me as strange they would both decide not to eat at the same time? Do I take them to the vet? Try to tempt them with waxworms? Try silkworms? Wait it out?
