Cyriocosmus elegans hunger strike?

[DerGraf]

Cyriocosmus elegans: How long have yours gone without food at most?

My female, not long after becoming adult, stopped eating. By now, she ate only a single fly grub during the last 10 months.
Luckily I was/am able to check on her from time to time, since her burrow partially goes along the glass. As far as I can tell, she never looked too thin or dehydrated, so I didn't worry too much.

But I'm wondering how normal that strike duration is and how long this might go on. Of course I'm aware many fossorial species like to go on prolonged hunger strikes, but I've never heard anything above a few months in regard to this species. Am I missing critical knowledge here?

 

[kingshockey]

i had mine go for about 6 months or so

 

[Mustafa67]

Cyriocosmus elegans: How long have yours gone without food at most?

My female, not long after becoming adult, stopped eating. By now, she ate only a single fly grub during the last 10 months.
Luckily I was/am able to check on her from time to time, since her burrow partially goes along the glass. As far as I can tell, she never looked too thin or dehydrated, so I didn't worry too much.

But I'm wondering how normal that strike duration is and how long this might go on. Of course I'm aware many fossorial species like to go on prolonged hunger strikes, but I've never heard anything above a few months in regard to this species. Am I missing critical knowledge here?

WAIT, BE PATIENT

 

[kingshockey]

if it helps ease your stress just leave a fully dead pre killed feeder. in over night by its burrow and remove the next day i do that with alot of my pet holes.nothing wrong with spoon feeding your ts now and then

 

[viper69]

Cyriocosmus elegans: How long have yours gone without food at most?

My female, not long after becoming adult, stopped eating. By now, she ate only a single fly grub during the last 10 months.
Luckily I was/am able to check on her from time to time, since her burrow partially goes along the glass. As far as I can tell, she never looked too thin or dehydrated, so I didn't worry too much.

But I'm wondering how normal that strike duration is and how long this might go on. Of course I'm aware many fossorial species like to go on prolonged hunger strikes, but I've never heard anything above a few months in regard to this species. Am I missing critical knowledge here?

It's not a strike. Hard to say about yours w/out pics and added data

Mine months easily.- as mine has increased in size/age it does eat less frequently

A lot of variables affect T metabolism.

 

[DerGraf]

We can call it "eating pause" or something similar, instead of "strike". I'm fine with that. ^^

It was a rather abrupt change, instead of the somewhat slow change I'm used to with adulting specimens. My T experience is rather limited to arboreals and C.e. is my first+only fossorial species. But even so, I didn't and don't plan to do anything (unnecessarily) drastic. No need to worry about that.

Still, it's good and calming to know even this protracted period is not totally atypical for this species, even more so with concrete numbers/experiences! Thank you for the feedback. I'm not sure what additional data I could provide that would be helpful. I tried the "put something outside and see what happens" a while back already. I could try again but I guess I'll keep waiting for some more months now and if necessary I can return here anytime.