My female lesser I picked up on June 3rd has not eaten for about 4 months now. The set up I have her in these photos is roughly the same as the one she is in now. The only difference is that she is currently in a rack system I built. I added the plants for extra security and I am now using a plastic hide rather than the cardboard hide you see is this photo. Also, the golf ball is for size comparison. These pics are about a month old and she looks perfectly healthy, in fact, she still looks pretty healthy but I can tell she has lost a bunch of weight.
The temps are 95 on hot end, 78 on cool end and I keep the humidity at around 52%. I am sure she doesn't have internal parasites as the breeder I purchased her off of kept very good care of his animals. She was a monster when I first bought her, about 1100g, now she is just shy of 900g. The problem I am facing is that she was fed live rats her whole life and these past few months I have been trying to switch her over to f/t. I have also offered small live rats in the past which she didn't take. I offer f/t now once a week. I am aware that some bp's will get stressed when moving to a new enclosure, but that was months ago so I have no idea what could be causing the issue now. Last week she seemed "interested" in the small f/t rat I offered but ultimately turned her nose up at it.
Will she eventually eat or will she starve herself? I am not prepared to offer live as then I have a rat I have to look after and I don't want to feed it to my other bps in case they get the idea that they will be getting live all the time. I really want to get her eating f/t soon. I'm beginning to worry that she has forgotten how to eat lol. Thanks for reading.
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