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Leo wont eat
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Romeo & Juliet
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My female leo will not eat i ve tried giving the food to her from my tongs but she only ate one very urgent please help! and from the other people that read my posts i did seperate my leos.
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Member Comment
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5/18/2010 12:54:33 AM
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Ihkura
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Leos go through a "cooling" period when their temperatures are lower than normal, and subsequently dramatically slow down on eating. Usually this happens in winter but sometimes it happens entirely by accident. Is she on a heat pad at all?
If she's eaten something from tongs than at least the food response is there. When was the last time she ate for you?
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5/18/2010 12:48:39 PM
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JohnJohn
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I never tong feed my Leos. I just dump the food in and hope they eat it. They usually do. Sometimes when I feed superworms they don't seem to notice the worm that I just droppped right in front of them and I pick it up and drop it again or move the lizard around a few times until they notice that there is a nice fat juicy work wiggling there. When I first started feeding roaches the geckos seemed to be freaked out by the fast moving food and never ate them, but now they usually chase them around. Sometimes when I feed them crickets the Leos are just sort of slow and lazy about it. Other times they hunt them down right away.
Some of my breeding females just don't want food, and they will fast to the point of having their tails become thin. Usually they start eating again and when they show me a feeding response I start feeding them anything and everything they will eat to fatten them up.
How often are you feeding? And, like Nate asked, when was the last time she ate? I'd wait a few days and feed again and see what happens. If they are hungry they will eat. I wouldn't worry too much unless they start losing weight.
I like to give them a wide variety of prey items.
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5/20/2010 9:52:03 PM
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ChelsBrown
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Is she gravid? My femals seems to lose their appetites right before they're about to lay. Also, try feeding something different, my leos get bored of certain food items after a while.
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1/24/2011 7:16:02 AM
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abi21491
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