Well, today was a red letter day for the juvenile tegu that I use as a garbage disposal, but not so much for feedings. Some good news in there, too, though.
Almost none of the holdbacks ate. Everyone was offered a quail chick, and H4 was also offered a chick thigh. Only E3 and H6 (by far the two best eaters) ate. Everyone else declined.
As always, T3 ate her fuzzie with no issues, but T4 declined to eat either of her two chick thighs.
E2, however, ate an unscented pinkie for the third time, so I think it's safe to call him a pinkie eater at this point.
N1 and N3 were offered a pinkie and chick thigh. N1 ate the thigh only. N3 declined both.
N2 and N4 were each offered an unscented pinkie only. N2 declined, but N4 ate. I think it is also safe at this point to say that N4 is on pinkies. I will probably offer N2 an unscented pinkie again next week, but if he declines again, I will probably go back to scented.
These are considerably lower numbers (despite the two big victories with E2 and N4) than I am used to, so I am trying to figure it out. It's not uncommon for one or two of these guys to skip a meal here or there, but for 7 of 13 to not eat is a bit unusual. The only thing I can think of that was different this time was the fact that after feeding all of my animals, I vacuumed out the reptile room with a shopvac. I was careful not to directly clean around their rack, but I assume that having that disturbance in the room on a feeding day is probably the issue. At the very least, I'll be sure not to do it again.
