Help needed with my Moluccan Scrub adult female who just will not eat!

Originally Posted by hhmoore

Import or CBB?
Dimensions of current enclosure?
Substrate? (Current, and what you've tried)
Cage furniture? (Hide, branches, etc?)
Is her enclosure in a stack, with others being heard in the same way?

To make sure I understand the current information correctly - you purchased her approx two years ago...she would have been about 3 yrs at the time. Presumably, she had good size then, likely 6 ft, since she has never fed consistently for you. She has not voluntarily fed for 7 months - nearly 1/3 of the time you've had her - and she was sporadic, at best, before that.

Did something change 7 months ago?
How often are you tube feeding her?
Did you ever contact the previous owner to get details on how she'd been kept & what she was eating. (Yeah, that's sort of like cheating; but it can make make things so much easier)
How does she look? Is she visibly thin/losing weight?

Current enclosure is approx 48x24x24, aspen at present, not tried any other substrate. Two seperate hides, large water bowl, plenty of branches, perches etc(at least imo). She is on her own in the room at present not above or below anybody else.

Nothing changed that we can recall to trigger this event of non feeding.
Tube feeding every second week.
Unfortunately do not have previous owner details as she was bought at one of our local repticons
she does not look terrible but she is noticably thinner than wehn we first got her
still has a scrub attitude though, not lost that.

And yes you short summarization of condition, events is correct

When I lived in Florida I had a neighbor who fed his scrubs exclusively quail. Sometimes tuna scent works. Have you tried rabbit or guinea pigs ?

Also try removing all furniture except the hide and feed in the evening hours with a little extra humidity if possible.

Are you only attempting live feeders ?

Have you had a vet test a fecal sample from her? Maybe she's carrying parasites.

Originally Posted by snakeman101172

When I lived in Florida I had a neighbor who fed his scrubs exclusively quail. Sometimes tuna scent works. Have you tried rabbit or guinea pigs ?

Also try removing all furniture except the hide and feed in the evening hours with a little extra humidity if possible.

Are you only attempting live feeders ?

As I said she did eat 2 quail in one sitting about 3 months ago but nothing since.
She has NEVER taken anything live, acts like she is scared of them even smaller prey like live hoppers.
Tried gerbil and african soft furred
And yes when attempt to feed everything is removed from viv including water bowl or she just slinks into that to hide!
Have tried extra heat and humidity but all to no avail

Well just an update, we discovered she had an impacted front fang which caused an internal abcess to develop, this did not become apparent or even visual until only a few days ago
She is going in for removal tomorrow (Thursday 17th) and fingers crossed it is not too late
Explains a lot.....

I hope all goes well and that this was the cause of all the trouble! Good luck!

Originally Posted by AbsoluteApril

I hope all goes well and that this was the cause of all the trouble! Good luck!

Thank you April!
Very nice of you to say , like I say all fingers crossed, the vet was pretty optimistic so here,s hoping!

Fingers crossed - hopefully it will end her recent fast. Once she starts feeding again, we can work on the regularity of it.

Originally Posted by hhmoore

Fingers crossed - hopefully it will end her recent fast. Once she starts feeding again, we can work on the regularity of it.

Thanks Harald
Will update with news good or bad.....

Excellent news! Fingers crossed for a full recovery.