We've found something else she'll eat, pinhead crickets. We've been trying to feed her lots of flies, but our viles are empty and the store doesn't have any with actual flies! Now we have to wait for the wormy maggot things to turn into flies to be able to feed her those. She did almost eat a waxworm the other day, but she spit it out (I think it was too big). Is there anything else small she might like? We should be able to catch some house flies soon, I'll try those when we get some.

We spray the worms with vitamins, but the flies and pinheads are difficult to spray as I can only dump them out of their enclosures into the tank, otherwise they escape. The pinheads to have 2 different foods (one is fluker's orange cubes, the other is a dry mix used by our local reptile experts) and water gel with calcium, so hopefully that'll be good for her too.

She is still wasting away and I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't make it in the long run. The male is doing wonderful, nice and fat and eating everything. Hopefully we can give her enough pinheads to keep her from losing any more weight until we can get her eating larger crickets or some type of worm.

She has been hanging out on the bottom of the tank on top of the undertank heater. Is this normal or odd behavior? She tends to stay under the lighted area, but moves to hide herself under some leaves. I know that they are arboreal and prefer high places, so why doesn't she? Could she be too weak from lack of food to hold herself on the vines, or maybe she just likes to have a warm belly? These lizards are nuts!

Oh yeah, the male showed his dewlap for the first time a few days ago. He seemed to direct it at me, what does that mean? The next day he did it near the female (still looking at me) and she did it herself and then ran away! He did it once more in a plant, possibly at me again. I feel bad that I freak him out so much!

-Martha

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