Quote Originally Posted by Deborah View Post
What this animal well started before you got it? Given the timeline I seriously doubt so. A well started animal is an animal that has ate 3 to 5 times consecutively, knowing that the first meal generally occur at 10 to 14 days after hatching.

This is a VERY young animal and yes you should worry, not worrying is fine when you have a bigger older animal but not one that young.

My guess is that it is food related and husbandry related so please do not assist this animal until everything else has failed assisting is not the solution at this point.

First if you have not done so

Get a 6 quarts tub, aspen bedding and a 6 inches plastic flower pot saucer to use as an hide. Use about 1 inch of aspen in the tub. Provide temps no higher than 88 on the warm side.

Once you do that leave the animal alone for a week (NO HANDLING) and offer a LIVE hopper mouse in the enclosure. Yes it may be hard to find , and you might not want to feed live but all that does not matter (check CL and specialty reptile shop for live feeders), this is a young hatchling and it needs stimulation and it nees to start eating for you.

Until the animal eat for you NO MORE handling, once the animal is well established (5 consecutive meals min) you can start handling and attempt to switch food.
Gotcha. Yeah I haven't handled her hardly at all to begin with.

She is currently in a 6 quart tub and I will switch her over to aspen bedding after I leave her alone for a couple days. I've already decreased her temps. I have absolutely no issues feeding live whatsoever but there is quite literally nowhere in driving distance for me to get live hoppers or fuzzies, which is the main issue. I just checked craigslist and there are literally zero reptile specialty shops anywhere near me. Just regular old petco/petsmart, and they don't sell baby mice/rats.

I think that's my biggest frustration. I'll be going to the Milwaukee Repticon at the end of august so on the off chance that there are live feeders available for sale there, I'll definitely get them, but other than that I don't have many options.