Hi there:
I bought a large baby Sonoran gopher in December of 2001, and still have him today. He has grown a little over 3 feet long, so I guess you could consider him a juvenille. Until now I have kept him in a 75-gallon desert vivarium, and he was eating fine. Then, something happened.
Earlier this fall, he started pacing back and forth repeatedly across the huge cage. I gave him tons of rocks and climbing areas and hot sand and such, but he seemed to be going crazy. He has not eaten since December. He used to be a ferocious feeder, but now he just crushes the prey item into the substrate and continues pacing.
Cruel as it may sound, I decided to move him to a smaller, warmer and more secure enclosure with more hides. He is now in a 20-gallon, and stopped pacing, He coiled up in a hide like he used to be. Now I will offer him food again. I hope he eats. He is extremely gentle, and I even let children handle him at shows.
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DAVE
1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
0.1 Asian long-tailed grass lizard
1.0 Mediterranean gecko
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 rough-skinned newt
1.1 Eastern ribbon snakes
1.1red-cheeked mud turtles
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes
1.1 giant African black millipedes
0.0.1 White's treefrog
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes
0.1 fire salamander
1.0 scarlet kingsnake
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
assorted small terrestrial snakes are temporarily kept during the summer
COMING SOON;
1.0 fire salamander to breed with my 0.1.
