aleria
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Ok, so my hog island/albino cross babies were born back on 5/15. Only 2 babies out of the litter, but both are super healthy, alert, love attention with no nipping, hissing or biting, defecating regularly and feeding with gusto every 5 days on f/t rat fuzzies that leave a nice little lump in their tummies.
The issue I am running across while trying to keep perfect records for these little ones, checking on them every single day, is that neither has had a single shed at this point. From all of the research I did they should have shed around the 1 week mark and continued on shedding regularly from there. But still, at over a month old, showing good signs of growth and being plump, not thin in the least, not a single shed to be seen. Also, neither have gone into blue and just not shed, there just hasn't been any sign of shedding period.
They are each being kept in their own shoe box sized sterilite tub with paper towel for substrate, and only a small water dish. No extra light besides what is in the room itself, and the temperature is being maintained with a thermostat with both a hot end at around 88 degrees and a cool end around 78 degrees 24/7.
Is there anything I may be doing wrong here, is this just something that happens sometimes, or is there something else I should look into doing differently?
The attached picture is of the two of them at 1 week old.
The issue I am running across while trying to keep perfect records for these little ones, checking on them every single day, is that neither has had a single shed at this point. From all of the research I did they should have shed around the 1 week mark and continued on shedding regularly from there. But still, at over a month old, showing good signs of growth and being plump, not thin in the least, not a single shed to be seen. Also, neither have gone into blue and just not shed, there just hasn't been any sign of shedding period.
They are each being kept in their own shoe box sized sterilite tub with paper towel for substrate, and only a small water dish. No extra light besides what is in the room itself, and the temperature is being maintained with a thermostat with both a hot end at around 88 degrees and a cool end around 78 degrees 24/7.
Is there anything I may be doing wrong here, is this just something that happens sometimes, or is there something else I should look into doing differently?
The attached picture is of the two of them at 1 week old.
