So we have had Snickers for a year now...

She always had aspen substrate since we have had her but for the first 11 or so months she was getting Petco aspen which smells like "nothing" and then due to a ton of posts I read on here I switched to aspen bedding from Tractor Supply Co. right after her last shed because it is much cheaper.(and she has now refused to eat since then 3 weeks in a row since her last shed and changing of bedding.)

We have always fed her in a separate enclosure and she didn't seem to have a problem with it until she completed her last shed on 6/29.

We put her in her other enclosure to fed her on 6/30 when we cleaned her enclosure and she refused.

Then she refused again on 7/7 and 7/14.

We did run into husbandry problems before but we have corrected them and she has always been a good eater and her last 3 shed have been perfect 1 piece sheds.

I am pretty sure her last 3 refusals of food are due to the new substrate which has a "very pungent aspen smell" and her old aspen substrate barely had any smell at all but I can't be certain.

What to do???

I am torn between just giving up on feeding outside her enclosure or if this is a problem based on the new pungent smelling aspen substrate.