Quote Originally Posted by Salamander View Post
My currently-not-eating female [well, she ate one live muse last week] is restless and edgy and tonight, I noticed thin streaks of blood on her newspaper.

She last shed on Dec. 5 so I don't think it's the classic post-shed bleeding.

The streaks of blood look like somebody used a very fine tipped red pen and randomly streaked the paper.

This had to have occurred during the last <48 hours since I just recently
changed her papers.

All temps/humidity good so it's not that.

When I told her breeder she was off her food, he thought she might be ovulating and to stick a male in with her to remind her she's supposed to be pigging out.

He had no interest in her nor she, him.

I have her on plain white paper towels now so I can monitor this closely.

Any ideas?

I have absolutely no herp vets within sane driving distance.

Visually, she looks outstanding.
She's so gloosy she almost looks and feels like a plastic snake.

I'm baffled.

And it just occurred to me that the rat I offered her tonight had a bloody nose and I dragged it everywhere, trying to entice her into eating.

If it's not the [summarily rejected] bloody-nosed rat, what else could it be?

I can't do a "test" and re-drag the rat to check if the blood came from it because after Leah snubbed it, I tossed it to my garbage disposal named Agnes.

[and the male Fire is still afraid of baby mice whose eyes aren't even open yet....sheesh!]

Confused by this.