Quote Originally Posted by zina10 View Post
As for the breeder selling such an animal ? Shame on him !!
Yeah, this is what I was thinking re: the breeder. All signs point to significant issues there, which nullifies what I was considering suggesting and many legitimate breeders will offer: returning the animal if there's severe issues like this. But that's unlikely going to be an option given the track record we've seen here, such as selling a underweight animal on live-feedings only in a place where live feeders are borderline inaccessible.

As the others have said, switching to a substrate that maintains humidity better, keeping the humidity up, and offering a waterbowl large enough the animal can soak if it wants (such as a saucer) will help on the hydration angle without stressing the animal like baths will.

As will Deborah's "stubborn baby" tutorial with the smaller tub and bare setup, which is intended to remove as many variables that might be keeping the animal from feeding as possible. As this point, it's not an emergency to make him eat based on the body shape (IMHO) so assist feedings and whatnot shouldn't be considered again and probably should be administered by a reptile vet in the future along with a fecal scan.

I only hope that the breeder did not sell one of those wasting babies that never get to eating on their own.