I don't have a bunch of pictures, but as of Monday both of them went blue within 24 hours of each other!
The boy is being difficult about F/T right now, so he's getting live intermittently with F/T attempts in between. Because of this, the girl seems to be catching up in weight. Hard to be certain since she's been holding the last 2 meals; now I know it was in preparation for this shed.
She's definitely not skinny anymore, but her scales still have this really weak and odd sort of texture to them. I'm really hoping that they improve more with this shed. Last time they improved some, but she had hardly had any extra nutrition, so I hope it will be more improvement this time. (I think it was only 2 pretty small meals before shedding, if memory serves)
She seems to hold onto poops longer than most of my others and gives herself sausage butt from it, but she has gone several times now, so I'm not too worried about it just yet.
Here's the boy when we spotted him in shed.
And here's the girl.
I'm considering adding some vitamins or something to the girl's prey for some extra nutrients, especially if this shed doesn't improve how her skin and scales feel by much.
Any thoughts for how to go about it or what to use (or if it would be beneficial)? I've got some nutribac and general gecko insect dusting vitamins along with pedialyte which I've added to her water, though she doesn't seem to drink out of the bowl much.
Actually doing it would probably work okay to lightly mist the next rat with water and "dust" some onto its fur before feeding. Not sure if it is worth it or if any of those would be something good for her, though.
I'm sure it will probably improve more with time without intervention, but after seeing the thread on here with the pet store rescue BP who ripped skin open while shedding due to fragile scales/skin and how eerily their descriptions of how the scales feel matched how she felt on day 1... it is a bit off-putting.
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