Hi,
When I first got my 3" G.aureostriata, she seemed fine. After a couple of days to settle in, I gave her a cricket, which she took readily. Over the next week and a half she ate two more crickets, no problems.
She hasn't eaten in 3 weeks now, though, and I'm getting a bit worried. She doesn't have a bald spot from kicking, though I've read that Chacos don't really kick that much. I don't think she's stressed, but I'm not sure. She has a little corner of her cage she's adopted as her home, and spends most of the day curled up there behind her cork bark. However, she does come out later in the evening, perching on her bark, or in different parts of her enclosure. I haven't seen her pacing or anything, just sitting and every once in a while moving to a different position. When she's out in the open she doesn't scrunch, she just sits normally. She does scrunch a bit in her home corner, but it looks like that's more due to the limited space there.
I have seen her try to climb the glass occasionally in one corner of her enclosure, but it seems she can't stick. She'll walk into the corner and put her right legs against the glass, but her feet just slip down and she ends up sitting on the substrate with her legs up against the glass.
Her abdomen looks fine, and I notice water disappearing from her dish. I'm just not sure if there's anything else I should be doing at this point.
Le help?
When I first got my 3" G.aureostriata, she seemed fine. After a couple of days to settle in, I gave her a cricket, which she took readily. Over the next week and a half she ate two more crickets, no problems.
She hasn't eaten in 3 weeks now, though, and I'm getting a bit worried. She doesn't have a bald spot from kicking, though I've read that Chacos don't really kick that much. I don't think she's stressed, but I'm not sure. She has a little corner of her cage she's adopted as her home, and spends most of the day curled up there behind her cork bark. However, she does come out later in the evening, perching on her bark, or in different parts of her enclosure. I haven't seen her pacing or anything, just sitting and every once in a while moving to a different position. When she's out in the open she doesn't scrunch, she just sits normally. She does scrunch a bit in her home corner, but it looks like that's more due to the limited space there.
I have seen her try to climb the glass occasionally in one corner of her enclosure, but it seems she can't stick. She'll walk into the corner and put her right legs against the glass, but her feet just slip down and she ends up sitting on the substrate with her legs up against the glass.
Her abdomen looks fine, and I notice water disappearing from her dish. I'm just not sure if there's anything else I should be doing at this point.
Le help?
