mascutt
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Ok, I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've had Lola for just over a month. She was doing great... eating, gaining weight, shedding, wasting, etc. Before her last shed, this past weekend, she, of course, started eating less, but once she had shed, she did not return to eating normally. She ate two crickets and two mealworms, and that's all she's had now and that was five days ago. And since she was shedding, it was three days before that since she ate what I consider a normal meal.
The temp in the tank is normal, as is the humidity. Nothing has changed, I neither rearranged her tank, nor even the room her tank is in. She has hot and cool side, and a dry and moist hide. She is on paper towel substrate, and she is wasting (only every other day), so I don't think she could be impacted. She has also taken to trying to escape (like when I first got her). She spends most of the day standing up in the corner of her vivarium trying to climb out. She only did this before when I first brought her home.
She never eats mealworms out of her dish but always does if I pull them out and dangle them in front of her face. So I know she is not eating any mealworms when I am not around (plus I count the mealworms). Same with crickets. She used to go for them immediately when I put them in the tank, now she acts like she can't see them - and runs from them if they come too close to her. The only thing I have successfully gotten her to eat is a little applesauce with calcium from my finger, but I don't want that to be her diet obviously.
Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to put all the info in here to save people from having to ask the obvious questions.
Any ideas? Could she be lonely? does she want a tankmate? Could she be gravid? I mean she was housed with other geckos at the pet store and is pretty close to full grown (but I can't see an egg in her belly.)
Please help if you have any thoughts.
Thanks
David
The temp in the tank is normal, as is the humidity. Nothing has changed, I neither rearranged her tank, nor even the room her tank is in. She has hot and cool side, and a dry and moist hide. She is on paper towel substrate, and she is wasting (only every other day), so I don't think she could be impacted. She has also taken to trying to escape (like when I first got her). She spends most of the day standing up in the corner of her vivarium trying to climb out. She only did this before when I first brought her home.
She never eats mealworms out of her dish but always does if I pull them out and dangle them in front of her face. So I know she is not eating any mealworms when I am not around (plus I count the mealworms). Same with crickets. She used to go for them immediately when I put them in the tank, now she acts like she can't see them - and runs from them if they come too close to her. The only thing I have successfully gotten her to eat is a little applesauce with calcium from my finger, but I don't want that to be her diet obviously.
Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to put all the info in here to save people from having to ask the obvious questions.
Any ideas? Could she be lonely? does she want a tankmate? Could she be gravid? I mean she was housed with other geckos at the pet store and is pretty close to full grown (but I can't see an egg in her belly.)
Please help if you have any thoughts.
Thanks
David