Xerxes started warming back up on 3/20, and still hasn't eaten. (So, to put in to perspective, he hasn't eaten since 12/15)

I keep offering mice each week and he rejects them; doesn't even try to eat them. His original owner suggested I scent the mice with an anole. It sounded like a good idea, but when I went to our local petshop (it's a good one, not a chain), the owner was too worried about parasites to recommend using other reptiles for feeding.

So far, the best he could do was tell me to try braining next. And if that didn't work, to take him to the vet. I'm not sure what the vet can tell me that I can't see for myself. They'd need a stool sample to test for parasites, and since he won't eat, that won't happen. Aside from not eating and being a little thin after brumating, he's generally healthy looking, but seems to be searching for something (not sure if this is the mating-crazies that he's had in the past; this year it seems different as he's not doing a lot of strange undulating and coiling).

If braining doesn't work, I'll try a live fuzzy or two. (He's 12, so it would be like baby food.) No idea what I'll do with them if he rejects them...

Does anyone have a better idea of what might be wrong?

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