Really worried here;
I got her when she was 8weeks old, very thin, thin tail you name it.
I let her settle in for about 3 weeks, tempting her with food the correct size food etc.
She ate nothing, understandable shes in a new place, anyway after a few more days she ate for the first time 4 crickets and a meal worm, GREAT!, so i thought she was simply underfed from the pet store, i tried again the next day tempting with 1 cricket if she ate that i'd try another etc.. but nothing, so i thought fine okay, maybe every other day even though ive read a baby should really eat every day, 3 days and again nothing. more to the point after say 2 month now ive fed her every other day or atleast tried, shes ate say 4 times out them all.
The set up:
Shallow water dish
Meal worm feeder 24/7 food
Cave hide for her
Log to climb on
Paper towel flooring
Calcium filled bottle top (All her food is calcium dusted also)
2 Heat mats, one on the back of the tank, one at the back UNDER her cave (outside the tank not in) so her cave is warm
Sun Glo heating lamps above the tank (on the hot side creating a gradient) each bulb is 25Watt each (2 bulbs)
During the day the hottest would be say 90F coldest is early morning hour of say 74F - the heating LAMPS are on a timer for the colder times of the day and night, the mats are on constantly as they don't seem to heat the tank up to well so they do great to stay on.
She never ever comes out her cave, i don't know whether it's too hot or too cold for her to come out, i thought they like the heat/sun (in moderation) and bask in it storing the heat for the night, however i don't see her day or night.
She's never been violent iv'e held her dozens of times.
Is there anything i'm doing wrong? i've took some pics of Her and the Tank:
Tank in full
[8IMG]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/7394/sam0962h.jpg[/IMG]
Food/Water
[8IMG]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/456/sam0963.jpg[/IMG]
Calcium top (the food around it is fish flakes, i read its better to have food in the tank if you leave the crickets for the leos sake, my crickets love fish food)
[8IMG]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2374/sam0964z.jpg[/IMG]
Her cave (Heat mat under that OUTSIDE the tank)
[8IMG]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6817/sam0965f.jpg[/IMG]
Climbing Wood (she likes this)
[8IMG]http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9210/sam0966.jpg[/IMG]
Heat mat stuck to back of tank
[8IMG]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5453/sam0968.jpg[/IMG]
Heat lamp
[8IMG]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7666/sam0969.jpg[/IMG]
[8IMG]http://www.petmountain.com/link_image/product/standard/501529.jpg[/IMG]
And finally HER
[8IMG]http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4529/sam0967.jpg[/IMG]
Is she too thin?
Comments please
Thank You!
UPDATE:
After taking her to the vets, turned out she had parasites in her stomach, the vet asked me such things as is it housed with another one which could have them? i said no, he asked have i had one previously that may of died that could of had them, i said no.
He said then its obviously where i bought it from, then charged me £30 ¬_¬ i could of told him that, anyway, i rang the pet store i got it from, they said for me to bring it back, i took it in, they're keeping her isolated and taking her to the vets tomorrow, gave me my refund back and apologised as they admitted it was their fault.
I got her when she was 8weeks old, very thin, thin tail you name it.
I let her settle in for about 3 weeks, tempting her with food the correct size food etc.
She ate nothing, understandable shes in a new place, anyway after a few more days she ate for the first time 4 crickets and a meal worm, GREAT!, so i thought she was simply underfed from the pet store, i tried again the next day tempting with 1 cricket if she ate that i'd try another etc.. but nothing, so i thought fine okay, maybe every other day even though ive read a baby should really eat every day, 3 days and again nothing. more to the point after say 2 month now ive fed her every other day or atleast tried, shes ate say 4 times out them all.
The set up:
Shallow water dish
Meal worm feeder 24/7 food
Cave hide for her
Log to climb on
Paper towel flooring
Calcium filled bottle top (All her food is calcium dusted also)
2 Heat mats, one on the back of the tank, one at the back UNDER her cave (outside the tank not in) so her cave is warm
Sun Glo heating lamps above the tank (on the hot side creating a gradient) each bulb is 25Watt each (2 bulbs)
During the day the hottest would be say 90F coldest is early morning hour of say 74F - the heating LAMPS are on a timer for the colder times of the day and night, the mats are on constantly as they don't seem to heat the tank up to well so they do great to stay on.
She never ever comes out her cave, i don't know whether it's too hot or too cold for her to come out, i thought they like the heat/sun (in moderation) and bask in it storing the heat for the night, however i don't see her day or night.
She's never been violent iv'e held her dozens of times.
Is there anything i'm doing wrong? i've took some pics of Her and the Tank:
Tank in full
[8IMG]http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/7394/sam0962h.jpg[/IMG]
Food/Water
[8IMG]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/456/sam0963.jpg[/IMG]
Calcium top (the food around it is fish flakes, i read its better to have food in the tank if you leave the crickets for the leos sake, my crickets love fish food)
[8IMG]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2374/sam0964z.jpg[/IMG]
Her cave (Heat mat under that OUTSIDE the tank)
[8IMG]http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6817/sam0965f.jpg[/IMG]
Climbing Wood (she likes this)
[8IMG]http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/9210/sam0966.jpg[/IMG]
Heat mat stuck to back of tank
[8IMG]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5453/sam0968.jpg[/IMG]
Heat lamp
[8IMG]http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7666/sam0969.jpg[/IMG]
[8IMG]http://www.petmountain.com/link_image/product/standard/501529.jpg[/IMG]
And finally HER
[8IMG]http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4529/sam0967.jpg[/IMG]
Is she too thin?
Comments please
Thank You!
UPDATE:
After taking her to the vets, turned out she had parasites in her stomach, the vet asked me such things as is it housed with another one which could have them? i said no, he asked have i had one previously that may of died that could of had them, i said no.
He said then its obviously where i bought it from, then charged me £30 ¬_¬ i could of told him that, anyway, i rang the pet store i got it from, they said for me to bring it back, i took it in, they're keeping her isolated and taking her to the vets tomorrow, gave me my refund back and apologised as they admitted it was their fault.
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