Quote Originally Posted by el8ch View Post
Think we need a background story here to get a better picture of what is going on. what do you mean she is weak? why was she at the vet in the first place? etc....

No need to soak before a shed. Keep your humidity up to around 60%-70% and give her a water bowl she can soak in if she chooses to. If in fact she does have a rough shed you can soak or do whatever is needed after the fact.

The over-handling and soaking is most definitley stressing her out.

Sorry, I should have provided a brief background for anyone who hasn't read my earlier posts.

Basically she is 6 months old. I got her 3 months ago along with a male (also 6 months old) from a herp store who told me I could house them together. For the last 3 months they had been living together in a large glass tank. He has grown; She has not. They both got mites last month and were treated with Provent-a-Mite (the tank, not them). The two weeks that it took to get the mite situation handled was too much for her. She became very anemic, and I took her to the vet last 10 days ago. The vet ran tests, dewormed her, gave her ivermectin for the mites, and started to tube feed her every 2 days while in their care. I brought her back home from the vets 3 days ago. They told me to soak her daily for 10 minutes. I did it yesterday and today. But her behavior makes my heart skip a beat.

I took her back to the vet today for another tube feeding and she'll be going back every saturday until either they tell me she doesn't need it anymore, or she strengthens up. She is weak and I can see it now. She always has been weak. (Hindsight, and all that...) but never this weak. She weighed 85 grams today at the vet before they fed her. She was 86 yesterday and 74 grams when I initially took her in 10 days ago.

So that's about it.