if the appetite falls off, look for causes and indicators of that in your setup. what has changed? have the temps gone up or down? have you changed bulbs? have you grabbed your Temp Gun and given the cage the once over? (that is usually my first step in evaluating changes, temping out the cage again)



is there a nighttime heat source that has failed? especially one that you can't "see" working like a heat pad? are there new animals in the cage? have you changed food suppliers? or veggie brands? are there free roaming crickets all of a sudden breeding in the cage? has the water content changed? whoops, gotta watch that last one Pete



those are just quick thoughts off the top of my head that a keeper should consider (and there a a few dozen more) when abrupt changes happen. you can almost always track it down to some simple change that you made, or didn't realize you had made
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