Hi, I bought an orange baboon on the 9th Jan (posted on the 12th) which seemed all happy and good. It's a young one, about 10mm in length and looked quite ok in the reptile shop.
Since I've had it, I've tried to feed it twice with crickets which is has ignored. It's more or less sat in one corner and not done much. Our boiler has been on the blink lately so I put the jar by a heat pad and pretty rapidly the thing was full of condensation. I've wiped most of that out as I understand baboons prefer things a little dryer and it has plenty of substrate to burrow in.
Behaviour wise it's just not moving or interested in anything. Today I gave it a little poke with some tweezers which didn't make it react. It's not on its back so don't think it's molting although it obviously is young! It didn't even seem to care when I could practically move it around and just twitched a couple times. It's not in a curl or anything but just seems very depressed or something. :?
I'm pretty new to Ts so am still learning about humidity control etc -- anyone have any immediate ideas? I've removed the latest cricket (lucky blighter) and even removed a couple small balls of white mouldy kind of stuff. Do I need to shift it pronto to another home?
Since I've had it, I've tried to feed it twice with crickets which is has ignored. It's more or less sat in one corner and not done much. Our boiler has been on the blink lately so I put the jar by a heat pad and pretty rapidly the thing was full of condensation. I've wiped most of that out as I understand baboons prefer things a little dryer and it has plenty of substrate to burrow in.
Behaviour wise it's just not moving or interested in anything. Today I gave it a little poke with some tweezers which didn't make it react. It's not on its back so don't think it's molting although it obviously is young! It didn't even seem to care when I could practically move it around and just twitched a couple times. It's not in a curl or anything but just seems very depressed or something. :?
I'm pretty new to Ts so am still learning about humidity control etc -- anyone have any immediate ideas? I've removed the latest cricket (lucky blighter) and even removed a couple small balls of white mouldy kind of stuff. Do I need to shift it pronto to another home?