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A question regarding my B Boehmei or Mexican fireleg.
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFireLeg" data-source="post: 191069" data-attributes="member: 36432"><p>Hi all,</p><p></p><p>I put a post up in a facebook group a while back now and got some useful feed back. It hadn’t eaten in a while and it’s bum was large, I was thinking pre moult and that was the consensus.</p><p></p><p>That was a while back now and it still hasn’t eaten, the drinking water is going down, it’s fairly active especially at night which would be expected and has a large abdomen still. But as an estimate it hasn’t eaten for around 8 months.</p><p></p><p>Yesterday I went to an exotic pet store near Sheffield <a href="https://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/</a> where the owner was great and having bred Brachy’s had a lot of knowledge. He was concerned about temperature and believed that a sub adult would normally not go quite so long without eating, we have a heat mat for the colder months and have it set at 25c/77f but we didn’t think to get a digital thermometer to actually check real time temps. I feel pretty foolish about this now.</p><p></p><p>His advice was to check the temp around where the spider mostly hangs around and to place the mat on one side of the enclosure against a wall rather than underneath. The temp came back at 19c so I turned it up, its set around 28c/82f now and looking like 21c. The heat map has a little more to give going upto 34c.</p><p></p><p>I checked the area of the enclosure closest to the heat mat and it came back at 27/28cc, so I’m concerned about parts of the enclosure being too warm.</p><p></p><p>A few questions:</p><p></p><p>I’m putting the heat mats and the digital thermometers censor into the substrate, is this correct?</p><p></p><p>Should I be concerned about the temp around the mat being higher than the rest of the enclosure? the mat is still underneath right now since this morning we had to move the room around a bit but it will be moved to a wall of the enclosure asap.</p><p></p><p>Is a Juvie not eating for 8 months a concern?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Any other advice would be appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFireLeg, post: 191069, member: 36432"] Hi all, I put a post up in a facebook group a while back now and got some useful feed back. It hadn’t eaten in a while and it’s bum was large, I was thinking pre moult and that was the consensus. That was a while back now and it still hasn’t eaten, the drinking water is going down, it’s fairly active especially at night which would be expected and has a large abdomen still. But as an estimate it hasn’t eaten for around 8 months. Yesterday I went to an exotic pet store near Sheffield [URL]https://www.exotic-pets.co.uk/[/URL] where the owner was great and having bred Brachy’s had a lot of knowledge. He was concerned about temperature and believed that a sub adult would normally not go quite so long without eating, we have a heat mat for the colder months and have it set at 25c/77f but we didn’t think to get a digital thermometer to actually check real time temps. I feel pretty foolish about this now. His advice was to check the temp around where the spider mostly hangs around and to place the mat on one side of the enclosure against a wall rather than underneath. The temp came back at 19c so I turned it up, its set around 28c/82f now and looking like 21c. The heat map has a little more to give going upto 34c. I checked the area of the enclosure closest to the heat mat and it came back at 27/28cc, so I’m concerned about parts of the enclosure being too warm. A few questions: I’m putting the heat mats and the digital thermometers censor into the substrate, is this correct? Should I be concerned about the temp around the mat being higher than the rest of the enclosure? the mat is still underneath right now since this morning we had to move the room around a bit but it will be moved to a wall of the enclosure asap. Is a Juvie not eating for 8 months a concern? Any other advice would be appreciated. [/QUOTE]
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