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Wow, it's been years since I've posted here! Please forgive me if I'm ignorant about any new rules or customs.
For some time now I've been down to just one T, a parahybana that I bought as a little pink sling in June, 2008. She's been full grown for several years, now, but after her last molt, she had not been eating. Sadly, I didn't note the date of said molt--it seemed to have proceeded quite normally at the time. But I do know it was sometime before 12/9/19, because that's the last day a construction crew was here, and I remember telling them about the molt at some time during the weeks that they were working on my house.
Anyway, after that molt, she never resumed eating. Eventually I began to worry that she'd not completely molted her "sucking stomach"...I kept her water dish full and sprayed parts of her substrate and a wall of the tank once a week or so, but I expected the worse. Well, I've been expecting the worse for over a year now! I went from offering her food every few days to once a week to once a month. She became very lethargic but somehow still hung in there...
Today I was at the pet store for dog & cat supplies and decided to try food one more time, so I picked up some meal worms and, lo & behold, she ate them!
I know this sounds incredibly far-fetched, but to the best of my knowledge she's gone more than 14 moths w/o eating. Somehow she managed to stay hydrated, and she now is looking not only perkier but more rotund. Is this even possible? Perhaps the fact that she was so large to begin with helped, that and the fact that she was expending so little energy?
At any rate, my mind is now officially blown!
For some time now I've been down to just one T, a parahybana that I bought as a little pink sling in June, 2008. She's been full grown for several years, now, but after her last molt, she had not been eating. Sadly, I didn't note the date of said molt--it seemed to have proceeded quite normally at the time. But I do know it was sometime before 12/9/19, because that's the last day a construction crew was here, and I remember telling them about the molt at some time during the weeks that they were working on my house.
Anyway, after that molt, she never resumed eating. Eventually I began to worry that she'd not completely molted her "sucking stomach"...I kept her water dish full and sprayed parts of her substrate and a wall of the tank once a week or so, but I expected the worse. Well, I've been expecting the worse for over a year now! I went from offering her food every few days to once a week to once a month. She became very lethargic but somehow still hung in there...
Today I was at the pet store for dog & cat supplies and decided to try food one more time, so I picked up some meal worms and, lo & behold, she ate them!
I know this sounds incredibly far-fetched, but to the best of my knowledge she's gone more than 14 moths w/o eating. Somehow she managed to stay hydrated, and she now is looking not only perkier but more rotund. Is this even possible? Perhaps the fact that she was so large to begin with helped, that and the fact that she was expending so little energy?
At any rate, my mind is now officially blown!