My friends cranwelli is not eating again, I've told her I suspect the heat is the culprit, she keeps it unheated at night and tells me the temps are a steady 24 at night but he latest she can check is 00.00AM, so I suspect the temps might be dropping further during the night.
I've advised her to attach an UTH to the side and when I just left her house, it looked like a good 26-27 degrees and I expect a drop of 1-2 degrees, just like here during the coldest part of night.
She has not handled him more then necessary.
Also, he hassn't eaten in 7 days and not pooped in 3 weeks, so tomorrow I'l be giving him a honey bath, followed by a regular bath (30 mins each I assume?) and then I'l be trying to tong feed him locusts afterwards. (she normally feeds adult crickets since he shows more of a feeding response to them, but lately he hassn't. Looking at his eye width and size, I can say crickets are too damn small.
If anyone has any other advice, please tell me, because if he's not doing better in a week or 2, I've agreed to house him and take care of him.
I really hope we can avoid housing him here, not that I mind, but I know it would break her heart.
Note: We recently had a heatwave and Buddah seemed to be doing better during this time. This also seemed like a red flag to me all pointing towards temperatures.





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