Ok so tonight I heated up a heating pad (one of the all natural microwavable ones) for a bit and put it on my lap with a towel over top. I put Corwin on it and she loved the warmth, and took lots of jump start. So, I offered her a worm with it, and no way, she doesnt want real food!!! I know she should have crickets (talked about leaving them in overnight before) but the problem is she refuses to eat them as well. As far as leaving them in overnight, that doesnt seem to work because as soon as she sees them she turns around and hides from them. I have left them in before and left her completly alone, at night in the dark and there is always the same number of crickets. I even tried just 2 one time with no success. The only was she ate a cricket was by being hand fed, which she obviously wont do now either. :/ Do I just have a confused gecko???
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Corwin likes jump start?
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Just out of curiousity, where are you from? Is there a chance you could find other bugs around the house/yard, such as flys, moths, bettles, millipedes, anything at all that's not cricket? It would certainly be worth a try, as long as you know they haven't been subjected to pesticides.
im from philadelphia. right now its freezing, so i dont think id be able to find anything, and they've probably been exposed to pesticides. my dad gets our lawn treated every so often
I think they're just regular crickets. I didnt ask for large or anything, unless they give them automatically. actually last time i got them some of them were definitly small, and she didnt like them either. I will try smaller ones again though to see what happens. Her weight seems to be steady. My brother even seems to think her tail may have gotten a little fatter. maybe from the calories in the jump start?
How long has it been? Mine didn't eat for almost 5 weeks when I brought him home. Also, yours might be trying to semi-hybernate, or brumate. Several of my snakes do that when it gets cooler outside and the heater takes all the humidity out of the air in the house (and I'm in GA so it never gets really cold here). What are your temps day/night? In the winter, I always have to use a second heat source for my snakes since it's about 10* cooler in the house than it is in the summer, they won't eat unless I keep it hot. If it was eating at the petstore you got it from, you might go back and check the temps in the AFT enclosure there and then try to replicate that at home...might also ask them what they were feeding it. I had a garter snake once that did the same type of thing to me, he went on a hunger strike in Dec. that lasted until Feb.
It has been about 4 weeks now. The temperatures in her tank have been staying constant (and are the same as the pet store- checked on that when we got her) while the outside (as in weather) temps have not. Today it is about 9 degrees, while last week it was 60 degrees. I'd say usually its aprox. in the 30's. If she were to "hibernate" would she stay in hiding all the time? Because she has a routine now where she will spend most of the day in her "cave" as we call it, and then comes out about an hour after we turn on the day lamp and put on the "night glow" lamp. She'll go over to the warmer side of the tank and bask on the area where the under the tank heater is then eventually go into her humidity hut. I dont know if she was eating at the pet store, because her tail was thin when we got her, and I wanted to plump her up. She was kept with other another AFT and a Leo from what I remember. They would just put crickets in for them and I dont really think they paid attention to who ate what- so the other geckos could have been eating all the crickets. I'm considering taking her to the vet again soon, just to be cautious- and plus she ate for them.
Leos and AFTs have quite different terrarium requirements, they shouldn't be kept together. So, the pet store may have the right conditions for the Leos but not the AFTs...I'd do some searches online for AFT care sheets and follow those instead of going by what the pet store did. I put one of my favorites at the bottom (by FamilyZoo, who replied to your posts as well). I'd just give her awhile, she might be one of those that takes 4 or 5 weeks to get adjusted. Just don't handle her much, keep the humid hide humid, and make sure that 3 out of the 4 sides of her terrarium are covered so she feels nice and secure - I used those wallpapers they sell at the pet stores (Petsmart has them for fishtanks and terrariums), they are cheap and easy to use, plus they look nice.
AFT care sheet
I was actually aware that leos and AFT's should not be kept together, and I thought that it was strange that they were at the store. But I have done tons of research already, most of it before I bought her, and a lot on eating habits after (for obvious reasons). The temps at the pet store were actually the same as the familyzoo care sheet (i checked it out before, but thanks for the link anyway!). The only thing that was different was humidity and I have that all adjusted in my tank. I guess she just might be one of the AFTs that take a long time to adjust! I have to say thanks to everyone though for all the effort and advice! Its really helped me a lot so far! 
Probably she's just one of those who has adjustment issues...might try getting crickets from a different supplier, I had a newt several years ago that would only eat one specific brand of tubifex worms, maybe Corwin is a picky eater too.
