So, i started keeping an excel document of Elizabeth's sheds, urates, feces, eat and other little things... just for a spreadsheet and I could track trends and such...
my first record is on 12/27 (monday) of 2010, in which she finished sheding, and ate ravenously the same day. 3 weeks previous to that she had refused to eat while on her normal two week schedule... and zoom to the present... I attempt to feed her on 01/10/2011, which is exactly two weeks from her previous feeding. She refused. I attempted again, on 01/04... with the same rat that I had refrozen... I have since thrown it away because I do not want to try my chances with sickness and such so I have ONE MORE frozen rat before I have to go buy more... I have already wasted one (10 freakin dollars) so I want to make the next attempt successful....
It has been 18 days, or 2 weeks and 4 days, since her last eating AND shed (exactly)... my question is... is it common to shed twice in a month? like 3 weeks apart?
I assume she is going into shed because she was acting like this last time... and went on a hunger strike for 3 weeks then just shed one day and i was like... yay... and she ate that day... so.. and her belly is SLIGHTLY (as in minimally) pink.. and some of her belly scales are getting a little lose so I am thinkin shes shedding... I just wanted anyone input on what I should do...
she is in a tank, with dual hides, the hot side is an even 90 degrees, the cool side is 85 ish and the actual tank is in its 80s. I have a heat lamp over the cool side to up ambient air cause its cold right now and a UTH... with a big water bowl in the middle.. so yea... thoughts? substrate: newspaper, freshly cleaned.. and I just sanatized her cage last night... I do it once a month.. just for good measure and all her stuff in her tank. (and I let it air out before putting her back in it)