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I hope Iguana Joe reads this as you were very helpful. I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Really! My son peeked in on her and found her with collards in her mouth. She saw him immediately and scarfed it down and then fled from the dish. Still stressed apparently, but she ate. yay!!! My plan is not to add supplementation this week, so that the food tastes as yummy as possible, and then to increase supplementation from there so that we don't have any bone issues. For the record, and so you can continue to help others, you can now say that you have heard of someone who had very nearly a month long battle with Iguana stress related anorexia. She is thinner but even after a month of not eating she still has some weight and girth to her. Although we certainly have lost time to make up for here, I would expect that just like her weight loss that was gradual, her regaining her weight will take some time, but I think she's going to be ok. I also did not do any force feeding or assisted feeding. The vet had said that some people get their iguanas so friendly that they end up feeding them by hand and in essence train them to hand feed by mistake, and wondered if that had previously happened with this one. So I decided to hang tough and let her do it on her own. It worked! Thanks for all the help!

you could mix the supplment into the food .. and wet it so she cant taste it really .. and then add some fresh non supplmented ones on top ( not a whole lot ) and try that maybe she wont notice .. just a thought

good luck

Fantastic news!
Stubborn little b*$t*rd$, aren't they? hehehehe

-IJ