Finally - 5 years late: An introduction to Cleo, Carra, and Kayla

[Hugsplox]

I did get the spike fly larvae. Cleo was uninterested. It seems she did eat a couple mealworms out of her bowl this week (but sometimes they escape, so not sure until I clean the entire enclosure). She also ate a couple wax worms and a hornworm covered in calcium and vitamin powder, so at least she got her weekly amount of those. She seems okay. Her mouth looks okay, she's not losing weight, she's active, and will literally sit in my hand and take a waxworm from the other.

I don't think she's in any major discomfort at the movement. However, she was chilling in her moist hide, so a shed might be imminent, which might add to her not eating much. That in addition to the time of year and her age, etc.

I'll try again with the spike worms soon.

In the meantime, Carra (LG) and Ferry (Chewie), really liked them. They are the size of a small waxworm, move like a waxworm, but are more nutritious and seem gummier and denser (which makes sense because they are less fatty by a lot and have more protein).

Cleo seems to be going mostly by smell now and not movement - I really think her eyes are not great at this point. She smells the waxworms and hornworms and then bites them, often missing at first. Same with the mealworms, but they are harder to grab and not as enticing.

Hugsplox - overall, they were a big hit. However, Carra and Ferry eat anything that moves. Probably worth trying.

I'll definitely give them a try. Spitfire is in shed right now as well, but yesterday was feeding day, so I figured I'd see what he did, and he happily took 4 medium crickets from me. Hopefully this is the start of him getting back to normal now that it's warming up a little more outside, but we'll see. I think one of my big mistakes early on was only tong feeding vs leaving something in there with him. Initially he was only eating meal worms but I moved him to crickets when he started showing less interest.

Since I didn't want to leave crickets in the enclosure with him, I exclusively tong fed, so when I went back to leaving something in a bowl, the dubias, he was not interested. I don't want to say for sure that that was the issue, but yesterday went really well feeding off the tongs again.