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Originally Posted by drache
has she always done that or is this something that came with her reduction in appetite?
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Oh that's a long story..
She used to be a very aggressive feeder, really charging at food items. This little dilemma started sometime around the time they mated, about 90 days ago.
Fed her worms once and after that, she became very picky. Wouldn't eat fish or mice, just worms. Fed her worms a few times, with plenty of supplements, but then I stopped and started offering only fish and mice until she started taking them again.
Initially just the smallest fish or parts of fish (ate only the head) and one 2 week old mouse per week, when I previously had been giving her one 3 week old or two 2 week old mice (she would have eaten a lot more than that). I always suspected that I might be over-feeding her, but she's still growing and the amount of food in relation to her own weight stayed under 10%.
Now, she won't eat in public, I have to put the mouse in the terrarium and go away, or leave it over night. She won't take it if anybody is close by.
I have no idea what changed during that time. They mated and I moved them to a new terrarium, but I moved them
after she had already started refusing mice and fish.
I could spend an hour describing her current general behavior, but that's probably unnecessary.
Does she look gravid to you? Not to me.