So I have a roommate who owns a Normal BP Female that either is about to be a year old or is a little over a year old. She weighs over 600 grams and around the end of October she refused to eat for 3 weeks. When we finally got her to eat again it was by leaving a p/k mouse in her tank with her and then leaving her in the dark alone (she was a live feeder before).
My roommate though, does not like feeding her in her tank because of her aspen bedding and doesn't like that she is now only eating p/k.
I think that as long as she's eating he should just let her do her thing in her tank but he's insisting that because she used to eat in a "feeding tank" that that is what she needs to start eating more again. That maybe she needs that glass tank back to feel comfortable eating.
I feel like he's not keeping in mind that he's had to move her to 3 different locations in the last year, that the overall temp in the apartment has been dropping to the 40s/50s at night and says that "cooling down" periods only happen when the UTHs are turned off.
What do ya'll suggest about all this? Should he be trying all these new/old ways of getting her to eat or will it just stress her out more than she obviously is?
Also, are cooling down periods really only if you leave them in a low ambient temp with the UTHs off? Or can they happen even with UTH on?
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