Stumped

[marisa]

Hi guys.

I have a '03 female cal king who is being a real bugger about feeding.

Here is the details.......born around 7/10/03 and has eaten around 12 meals since birth. Meals 8-around 12 were two pinkies or a small fuzzy. Anyways two months ago or so she stopped eating. She is healthy, alert, very active and hasn;t lost any weight at this point but refuses to eat. I have tried a million tricks with her. Moved her into a tiny safe dark cage, live pinks, scented pinks (scented with both lizard and corn at times just for a stab in the dark try) fuzzies, brained, plain thawed, I have wiggled it in front of her, pissed her off in hopes of getting a feeding, and I have tried leaving her totally 100% alone for two weeks. Nothing has worked as of yet. I have had better luck getting tiny WC's in california to eat over the years when we used to catch them for fun over this CB girl.

At this point a suggestion to brumate her with my adults on Dec 1st has come into play. I have been talking with a few people who regularly brumate their non feeding hatchlings with a large sucess rate for feeding when they come out of it. Any thoughts? (this is just an idea I am tossing around at this point)

Marisa
P.S. duh the essential details: No handling, hot spot of around 83-86, cool side in the 70's, many tiny secure hides, paper towel substrate, housed alone in a rubbermaid type shoebox that is about 8 inches long, 3 inches high and about 6 inches wide.