Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
Get a bunch of newspaper and crumple it into balls until the tank is almost full. Prescent with extra stinky (what was she eating before? Mice?) bedding around her enclosure for a half an hour to 45 minutes.

Offer her food in the middle of the night (11-12a) after you've prescented.


How large is she in grams? If she is an adult, she can easily go some time without food. What was her history? You say you adopted her, is she a wild caught by any chance?

Any info you can give will help, like i said, it sounds like your set up is good temps and hide wise, but the constant trying to escape is not normal.

I always offer food at night. I started out just moving her hide to get her to eat because she was only out at night. But that wasn't working so I started waiting until she was already out and about.

I wish I had a scale... It was on my "next to buy list" when I was laid off and now I just don't have a single dollar to spare. But she doesn't appear to be loosing weight she is still very beautifully thick and she seems pretty heavy I know that doesn't quite give you the answer you wanted ha ha.

I was told she is about 3yrs old. The humane society said she was eating two adult mice a sitting the day before I picked her up and had been eating regularly since they had her. They also had her kept in a glass tank.

I've given the WC idea a few days thought to be honest. But truly I just have no way of knowing that.

It seems like she's only been trying to constantly escape since last week when she actually did. Maybe you saw my post about it. Since than every second she's awake and out of her hides she is trying to wiggle her way back out the same spot. I took the weights off her tank last night and she immediately had her head in the space she got out last time.