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Moved him from a 30qt tub to a 15qt tub and....BAM! Had to do the rat dance for a couple seconds but every prior week until last night he would just look at the rat and retreat to his hide.
Rich we have 3 young females here that all should likely be in 30 qt tubs but every one of them will refuse to eat if you move them up. Put them back in the rack with the 15qt tubs and they all eat like troopers. Drives me nuts as they really are a bit hefty to be in that rack but heck, if they like it and refuse to eat if they are moved out - I guess for now they are staying put.

As far as longest fasters, we have two WC adult females that both came to us having not eaten in close to a year. Both were severely underweight but are doing much better now. One of them, Saoirse, has been with us going on 3 years now and still fasts every winter. She normally will lose about 100 grams over the fast which is really not much at all for her.

We know winter is coming when Saoirse turns her snout up at her dinner and goes off to her hide to snooze. We don't need a silly groundhog to tell us spring is here when Saoirse comes out, starts searching around and whammo hits her ASF's.

Oh btw, spring is here folks! Saoirse took her ASF's the last two weeks. It may be snowing like heck where I live but I'll go by the instincts of this snake any day of the week.