The new substrate is Hulled Millet, but it hasn't been put in his tank yet. Right now It's newspaper. He hasn't eaten in about 2 days, sometimes he just decides he's not hungry, so that's not all that abnormal for him, especially when his bell is really big like it is now (he just has a lot of food in there that he hasn't pooped out yet. I havn't been force feeding him, but I've been leaving some babyfood mixed with olive oil on his dish (he's not eating it though). Today I threw in some thawed veggied so see if he would eat (I think there was corn, peas, and carrots, but there were only a few little cubes of each and they were all soft... not like fresh carrots that are hard) I know carrots arn't the best for him, but he likes them the best, and right now I want him to eat... he didn't eat it though.
Yesterday I took him out and gave him a
bath... he looked like he was scared of the water (even on a wash cloth) so I put on some bad clothes and filled the tub a little more and got in with him and let him sit on my leg mostly out of the water... (he didn't really care for that either) Tomorrow I'm going to cash an old paycheck that I found (forgot about it a long time ago) and it's just enough for a new
UVB light... he's due for a new one, so he'll be getting that to see if it helps.
He usually just sits on his stump all day until I take him out, and he looks at me if I walk by. He's staying on his stump, but he's not holding himself up as much as usual, and he looks like he's tired all the time. That bothers me.
Any suggestions? I really don't know what to do... he's so over licking his lips when I put baby food on them... it's like he knows what i'm doing, and he's not buying it anymore. He likes crickets... do you think that if I threw some crickets in there it would make him at least eat something? I think tomorrow I'm going to change the
UVB light and give him a
bath in the morningish and rub his tummy... and put some more baby food in front of him to see if he'll eat it...
One more thing... he has two basking lights because his tank is so huge, he sits under one of them most of the day (it's about 6 inches from his stump), and the other one (that's over a rock like a foot and a half away from him) for like 30 min after he eats, then he goes back to the one that's 6 inches away from him... most of that had nothing to to with anything... now to my point... These Basking bulbs emit UVA rays, but they don't say anything about UVB, so I'm assuming that they don't... Is it ok for him to be sitting under a light with UVA coming out? he has a seperate
UVB light that's right next to where he basks, but would it be better to have a light without the UVA?