spitfire23bc
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Hi, my 4(ish) year old female has been off her food for about 6 weeks. She seems pretty healthy otherwise - she's been to the vet, who hasn't been able to find anything wrong with her - xray and ultrasound showed no sign of impaction or egg-binding. She has plenty of reserves in her body and tail, so she's not in any imminent danger - she's lost about 5g in the last two weeks (currently at 72g). The vet's next suggestion is a possible blood test, although he isn't too confident that it will tell us much of use.
In general, she seems pretty happy and alert, although she's been more active during the day than she usually is, and when she sleeps she's been slumping only halfway into her moist hide, when normally she buries herself inside it.
I usually feed her crickets, with the occasional morio worm. She's been a bit of a fussy eater in the past (she's never touched mealworms, and went off locusts a while ago and won't look at them now) but usually she goes nuts for crickets after just a couple of days, so she should be pretty much taking my finger off by now! I've even tried encouraging her to eat with waxworms, but she turns her nose up to them, as with everything else. I've tried making a paste out of her vitamin supplement (I use Arcadia Earth-pro) and put some on her nose, but she refused to lick it off!
She's shed several times and has eaten some of the skin. Her most recent shed was only about a week and a half after her last one though, which is far sooner than usual. She's passing small amounts of urate, and defecating a little when she's eaten shed (and after having some vitamins from the vet).
Has anyone else experienced this? Or any ideas as to what might be wrong, or how I can encourage her to eat?
In general, she seems pretty happy and alert, although she's been more active during the day than she usually is, and when she sleeps she's been slumping only halfway into her moist hide, when normally she buries herself inside it.
I usually feed her crickets, with the occasional morio worm. She's been a bit of a fussy eater in the past (she's never touched mealworms, and went off locusts a while ago and won't look at them now) but usually she goes nuts for crickets after just a couple of days, so she should be pretty much taking my finger off by now! I've even tried encouraging her to eat with waxworms, but she turns her nose up to them, as with everything else. I've tried making a paste out of her vitamin supplement (I use Arcadia Earth-pro) and put some on her nose, but she refused to lick it off!
She's shed several times and has eaten some of the skin. Her most recent shed was only about a week and a half after her last one though, which is far sooner than usual. She's passing small amounts of urate, and defecating a little when she's eaten shed (and after having some vitamins from the vet).
Has anyone else experienced this? Or any ideas as to what might be wrong, or how I can encourage her to eat?
