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Still not eating :/
It's been almost 2 months. She's a little over a year old, and weighs around 900g. I made a previous post about my girl not eating, and it seemed that the advice was to fix the ambient temps and to get thermostats. I fixed the temps, but I haven't gotten the thermostats yet because I already have an electrical grid behind her tank lol. I have the mist king, a jungle dawn grow light, a zoomed 100w day light, 100w night light, and a 60w heat emitter suspended above the tank, a zoomed heat pad on the side, and most everything hooked up to a zoomed timed power strip, and the rest hooked up to another power strip. So I'm trying to figure out how to get everything on thermostats without causing an electrical fire lol. Is there a thermostat that I can plug the day and night light into or do I need one for everything? Since I adjusted the height of the heat lamps the temps have remained a constant of 90° on the hot side and 80° on the cool side. I also added 2 mist heads and adjusted the mist king to go off for 10 sec every 2 hours during the day and every 3.5 hours at night. Humidity is at a constant 65%. 70% right after it goes off. Inside the tank is bioactive, it has 4.5 in layer of terra firma soil, bio shot, leaf litter, 2 cultures of springtails, 2 cultures of isopods, serveral organic bp safe plants, 2 corkwood hides, a fake log, and a water dish from petsmart (thoroughly cleaned) all of which has been there before the eating problems, the newest addition is a corkwood tube that I got her for our anniversary (I know I'm a dork) it was about 2 weeks after I got it when she stopped eating. I will take it out if that is recommended but she loves the thing, she doesnt even use her hides anymore. Her activity seems pretty normal, spends all day in her log, then comes out at night and chills on her fake tree, twists all the mist heads around cuz she thinks it's funny, tramples her plants, gets some water and goes back in her log. Another issue I have is one of my cats likes to jump on the tank and scare the crap out of her (I think that may have prompted the food refusal) I have since started locking that cat up at night, I also read that I could put a towel in front of the tank to give her some privacy, so I've been doing that for the past week. Yesterday morning I put a 60g rat from the freezer into the fridge, last night I took the rat and in a sealed bag and submerged in hot water for about 10-15min. I offered it to her and she took it!!! I was overjoyed. 30min later I checked on her and the rat was on the ground and she was in her log. I don't know what to do. any advice is appreciated, thank you.
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