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Re: Live Feeding: Step by Step and Options?
 Originally Posted by Archimedes
I had started handling her, I have already stopped though after the last attempted feed (before this evening's, I mean). I had hope she would eat then, but after waking up to a thawed hopper still in the tank, I started covering her up again.
Thanks for the advice, I need all the help I can get. Got my hands full with her. (Well that, or I'm just worrying too much. She just seems so little to be on a hunger strike.)
She just needs to get settled in. Plenty of hides, leave her be. She'll eat eventually. What is her current set up? Pics?
If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.
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I can post pics in the morning, but a basic rundown: 15 gal tank with three hides. Terra cotta on warm side, terra cotta on cool side, big chunky half log to clutter the space more so than to function as a true hide. Pyrex water bowl. Humidity at steady 45-50, hotspot at 90, cool side 78. 85 ambient. Back, sides, and part of front are blacked out with posterboard.
I think, once I figure out if she'll eat this,week, I'll run and pick up some plants at the craft store to clutter things up even more. I keep being tempted to take some from Nessie's tank, but Izzy is still in QT.
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Last edited by Archimedes; 12-06-2013 at 12:50 AM.
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Re: Live Feeding: Step by Step and Options?
Originally Posted by Archimedes
I can post pics in the morning, but a basic rundown: 15 gal tank with three hides. Terra cotta on warm side, terra cotta on cool side, big chunky half log to clutter the space more so than to function as a true hide. Pyrex water bowl. Humidity at steady 45-50, hotspot at 90, cool side 78. 85 ambient. Back, sides, and part of front are blacked out with posterboard.
I think, once I figure out if she'll eat this,week, I'll run and pick up some plants at the craft store to clutter things up even more. I keep being tempted to take some from Nessie's tank, but Izzy is still in QT.
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Are the hides snug? If not, add crumpled newspaper to them. Heck, just add crumpled newspaper to the tank. Also, after she sheds and you are ready to offer food, give her a live mouse hopper, not fuzzy. They can eat mouse hoppers right out of the egg. Mouse fuzzies are too small. Hoppers have more movement too.
If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.
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