Hi all. As some of you know, I had a real issue getting my female hognose to start feeding. Since she started last May, she went from roughly 6 grams to 130 as of January 9th of this year. She turns two in July.
Since she was growing at an exponential rate, I moved her from an 18qt tub to a 32qt at the end of November. Ambients stayed the same ranging from 73 on the coldest nights but usually stayed around 75-78. She is provided a hotspot using a UTH that usually is between 90-94 depending on how the tub sits on the UTH in that particular area. Both in the 18qt and 32qt she had at least two inches of substrate to burrow. I would say she is roughly between 22-24 inches based on her stretched out in her tub.
This may be too much information but I am going to post her feeding logs of December and January because it may help with advice given.
She has not eaten since January 16th. Her usual meal was two fuzzies and sometimes I would offer a hopper. She would take hoppers but not with the consistency that she took the two fuzzies which is why I stuck with them for as long as I did. Now she rejects everything.
Remembering Deborah's advice on smaller enclosures, I moved her back into the 18qt this Monday with the exact same setup she was used to when she was feeding consistently. Based on the feeding logs, I would like to know if this was the right move and what I should do going forward if she does not eat when I offer this weekend.
December Feedings 32qt tub:
2nd: two Fuzzies
8th: Hopper
14th: Hopper
31st: One fuzzy
January:
6th: Two Fuzzies
11th: One fuzzy
16th: Two Fuzzies
Has not fed since.
One interesting note is that, although she ate a lot between October 21st (her last shed), she has not shed since. I've checked the Aspen and didn't find anything and I have not seen her in blue. I initially thought that she might be going into shed but, since that hasn't happened in over a month, I don't think that is the case. I also have her going from 87g on October 14th (week prior to shed) to 130g on January 9th without shedding which i think is unusual. Her activity has also not changed during this time.
I apologize for the long thread but I wanted to give as much info as possible and always appreciate the advice of the members on here.
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