Thank you so much for linking me that thread and the advice.
I'll give Solidus one more week or so; and then I'll follow the instructions on the stickied thread, at first I wasn't anxious or frustrated, but now this is starting to stress me out, too, I would literally give my kidney for this baby to eat lol, and like any responsible snake owner I obviously want my guy to be healthy and happy. I've been keeping obscenely good track of my husbandry lol since I live in a country where the weather makes everything difficult and affects indoors temps and humidity a lot as well, so I'm certain it is unrelated to the temps and humidity, but could be the enclosure itself, or sizes of his hides.
I do have these plastic IKEA storage tubs already, I've been using them to store substrate, and since a tub might prove to be better for him at least until he gets to around 200g and starts to eat on regular basis, I started wondering if the ones I have at hand would be ideal/sufficient?
The tub is 40 x 30 x 18 cm.
So, what I'm planning to do next is:
- No handling whatsoever
- Try providing smaller hides
- Switch infrared to CHE and see if it makes a difference (his stressed out/overtly active behavior DID start about two days after I got him the infrared)
- Continue keep track of husbandry and numbers
- Continue to offer larger prey item (fuzzy)
- Move him to a tub and follow the instructions if he still hasn't eaten within a week from now
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