Schnzrpunk
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Apologies if this is covered elsewhere. Have just joined forum, and could not find my question covered.
This is a question about regularity of shedding cf feeding.
My gorgeous 3yo female mac has recently altered her feed/shed cycle.
She usually enjoys small adult rats;about 3 weeks apart in warm weather, 5 weeks in cooler weather. (She lives in a large enclosure in the family room, lights calibrated to daylight hours, ambient winter room temp set at 17* overnight, 19* day; her enclosure has constant heat mat plus temp controlled at 22.5*overnight, 26* daytime - winter)
She is very docile, frequently handled and reasonably active. She spends some time outside in sunshine with me every other day, except when she's blue, when I reduce any handling to minimal.
Through her 2nd year, and until recently, she has sloughed regularly following 2, sometimes 3 feeds. Her sloughs, again until recently, have been easy single pieces.
She had a difficult shed around 3 months ago, which I believe was due to me not paying as close attention and not noticing her blueing, and not doing my usual daily misting...
Since then, her sheds have been patchy, although each one is better than the one before, but since her difficult shed, she goes blue within 24 hours of a poo, which is usually 2-3 days after a meal. She begins her slough within a week of going blue.
I watch her behaviour following a slough to gauge when to offer her a meal. She exhibits hunting behaviours from about 8 days following slough, and I have been offering her a rat about 11+/-days following each slough. So, she's feeding successfully roughly every 3.5 weeks at present, and sloughing between every meal.
other than that, she seems happy, alert, handle able. Just different to what I've come to expect from her. She's 1.3 m, slender but not thin. What do some of you other pythoners think?
This is a question about regularity of shedding cf feeding.
My gorgeous 3yo female mac has recently altered her feed/shed cycle.
She usually enjoys small adult rats;about 3 weeks apart in warm weather, 5 weeks in cooler weather. (She lives in a large enclosure in the family room, lights calibrated to daylight hours, ambient winter room temp set at 17* overnight, 19* day; her enclosure has constant heat mat plus temp controlled at 22.5*overnight, 26* daytime - winter)
She is very docile, frequently handled and reasonably active. She spends some time outside in sunshine with me every other day, except when she's blue, when I reduce any handling to minimal.
Through her 2nd year, and until recently, she has sloughed regularly following 2, sometimes 3 feeds. Her sloughs, again until recently, have been easy single pieces.
She had a difficult shed around 3 months ago, which I believe was due to me not paying as close attention and not noticing her blueing, and not doing my usual daily misting...
Since then, her sheds have been patchy, although each one is better than the one before, but since her difficult shed, she goes blue within 24 hours of a poo, which is usually 2-3 days after a meal. She begins her slough within a week of going blue.
I watch her behaviour following a slough to gauge when to offer her a meal. She exhibits hunting behaviours from about 8 days following slough, and I have been offering her a rat about 11+/-days following each slough. So, she's feeding successfully roughly every 3.5 weeks at present, and sloughing between every meal.
other than that, she seems happy, alert, handle able. Just different to what I've come to expect from her. She's 1.3 m, slender but not thin. What do some of you other pythoners think?
