Oh, I also run a humidifier at night. I have tried every kind of container to get her to cup feed, but no luck. The only way I have gotten her to eat since she moved into her new cage is to take her out, and put her in a smaller container with the food. I did this twice with success. The...
Prettyinink87, I appreciate you trying to be helpful. I am aware of the information you have pointed out. At this point I am mainly focused on having her eat at all. Her lights go on at 7-7:30 am, and off at 8:00 pm. I am not overly concerned about her eating at night, since when she is...
judging by what they look like, the process described online, and what affordable exotics just said.... I really think they might be cacooned. Nothing to lose, so will leave them the way I have them and see what happens. I wonder how different the process is for the reptiworms to turn into...
I am trying something..... I took the waxworm container out of the fridge to check on them. I had two that are brown (not black) and they are kind of hard. So, I took a small plastic bowl, put some oatmeal and wheat germ in the bottom, mixed a dollop of honey in one section, then added two...
I just received my first order of worms yesterday. I mostly got them to try to entice my 2-3 month old female to eat. I have had her about a month or so, and as I have posted on other threads, I am having a heck of a time getting her to eat regularly. I rigged up a clay flower pot saucer...
Yes, she is a fickle little beast, that tries my patience.... but I love her anyway :D
I stole the name "Stitch" from something I was watching on tv. It was a show about people and their pets, and a woman with tons of money who lived in New York City had a dog named Stitch. The dog and woman...
So I decided to put a second feeder container in Stitch's new cage. She hasn't been going near the other one with crickets in it. So, I put a second container in and then put two wax worms in it. Then I decided to take her and place her on the vine directly above this container. She...
Her basking temp is about 90.... I am going to raise the lamp a little tomorrow to get it to more like 85ish. I would much rather free-range the crickets. It means trouble-shooting the new cage and trying to find out where the darn things are getting out :confused:
The cage is: 4.5 feet high x 3 feet wide x 2 feet deep.
I have tried a deep container, then a more shallow container.... have tried it in several spots including where she had been hanging out.... she watches them, but then doesn't go after them, or she ends up looking through the bottom or...
Ok, because Stitch wasn't eating in her new screen cage I had been worried that it wasn't warm enough for her. Temps in lower part of cage were only low 70's. So, I decided to take her out so I could wrap part of the cage with plastic. Before I put her in a temp container, I put two waxworms...
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Looks like the free range thing is out for now. I went up to put more in for her to find them better...... they found a way to escape the cage. Now I have free ranging crickets in my bedroom :) Good thing I am not squeamish! So, instead I moved the container and there are now...
Thanks Hoj and Laurie, I appreciate the suggestions. That is what we were thinking of doing, wrapping 1/2 to 3/4 of the cage. I am also toying with the idea of buying a humidifier. She is in my bedroom, and I run a fan at night for the noise so I can sleep. Although it doesn't lower the temp...
So, I had another thread called "Soooo frustrated" which describes my situation with Stitch. I just was checking on her and she is up at the very top branch in her cage, as close to the basking lamp as she can get.... So, now I am wondering if the problem with her not eating had been a...