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Recently my indigo stopped feeding! I live in Illinois and the weather was turning cold as he stopped, so I suspected he's brumating. So I increased the photo-period and temperature and still can't get him to feed.... Also I recently(also couple months ago) put him in a massive cage, and was initially worried that the temperature gradient may be off, it isn't! I was using a sand mix in the large tank temporarily, but he is now back in his old, 40 G breeder and still refuses to eat.... Any thoughts?! P.S. I did take him to a vet, who said he was perhaps slightly dehydrated and I should soak him. I was soaking him, and did so daily for a week after. He just came out of shed and is again not showing interest in food ... Live mice, dead mice, I even got him a snake...

He will very likely begin eating again come spring. Male indigos in particular cut way back on food intake in the winter. In the spring he will make up for lost time.

In the past I have brumated, but before he stopped eating he really was on a tear. He ate like 12 mice, 3 rats, 1 garter snake, and 8 quail chicks in a week, and hasn't eaten since.

Any chance if I don't lower temps or photoperiod that he is hurt? In other words if he isn't physiologically slowed down, can it hurt him? Thanks

I continue to offer my indigos a choice of temps during the winter but just feed less frequently. They will thermo-regulate on their own if given a range of temps. I do not brumate them. That was a pretty lengthy list of food items for one week of feeding, if I understood correctly. What size were those rats, mice, quail?