Male Veiled Not eating much at all?

[DJBMURDER]

I have a approximately a year old male veiled that is in a big enough enclosure, perfect husbandry (a hibiscus tree) with vines and what not, and this past 2 weeks he hasn't been eating as much....The temps are okay and what not. I started working and going to school so I'm not around as much...Surely he isn't having seperation anxiety or something? lol...He seems healthy, his urates and his poop are still on point...He eats a few crickets I'd say...he went from eating about 7 crickets a day to maybe 3-4? I am concerned but is it possible that as they get older they don't eat as much? Should I be worried? Please help, he is my baby!

 

[DavidBuchan]

He's eating more than my male Veiled is doing right now.........once they get to adulthood they do eat a lot less, which is a bit of a shock compared to what they ate as babies I expect he's totally fine. Maybe you could give him some other feeders just to mix it up a bit, but it doesn't work much for mine - he only eats enough to stay alive

 

[carol5208]

Try some other feeders besides crickets. He is probably getting tired of eating the same old thing.

 

[DJBMURDER]

but on the whole i shouldn't be too concerned?

 

[lysinlight87]

I'm going through the same thing with my guy at the moment, although he's 6months younger than yours. They do start to eat much less. It's really hard not to worry about them. The past couple of weeks mine has gone from 5 feeders a day to 1. When he was younger he ate up to 20 a day! I'm trying to feed him every other day, which is harder for me than it is for him lol

 

[lojack13]

Yeah man no worries. From what I have read in the past they all tend to do this. My female Panther was eating like 7-10 a day and as soon as she turned 8 months old she went right down to eating like 2-3 a day. I freaked out about it, but she is active, she drinks, poop looks awesome, and after 2 months I just feel this is normal for her. Sometimes she only eats 1 a day and sometimes she will eat 4 a day depending on what mood shes in. But I too need to mix up her feeders. I do think they get bored of crickets when they get older. I think the whole eating tapering down freaks us out because we get so use to them being ravenous babies that eat 15-20 a day that we expect this to keep going on for the rest of their lives when that simply is not the case. I have even heard cases where they just straight quit eating for 2 weeks and then go right back to eating again like nothing happened.

 

[DJBMURDER]

I'm starting to suspect my male isn't eating at all for the past three days. He's active urates are good and he APPEARS healthy, any thoughts