He's loving not being itchy all the time haha. He sat on my shoulder after he finished the shed, and rubbed himself back and forth repeatedly on my jaw like "you feel that mom?? Soooo nice". Then he proceeded to take a poop on me. You can totally still see his stress marks though, in the last picture. I thought they would have gone away by now, but maybe the shed wasn't what was stressing him?
I don't put a whole lot of stock in stress marks alone. They are just one indicator. I look for energy outside of the tank, regular pooping, good appetite, and non-defensive behavior (no hissing/mouth opening at you, etc).
I just set Swordtail's timer for his bath and paused it so I could actually fill his soaking bowl up and he crawled over my phone and canceled the timer
Mirage came out of brumation on April 26. He was doing great. On May 2 he started acting funny. We just redid his tank, and he keeps going into one of his hides. He just lays there. He shows no intrest in food. HELP!