Feeding and Nutrition :: Stopped Eating normally :S

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:53 am   Stopped Eating normally :S

Ever since my female RES has been trying to lay eggs and not been able to she has not been eating properly

Before she would eat a wide variety of fruits, sweet potato and red romaine lettuce, cuttlebone (as well as her pellets and freeze dried shrimp)
Now she will only sniff any of her favourite fruit and turn away, and she will not eat any sweet potato unless its been sitting in freeze dried shrimp for a few hours (same with the lettuce) even then though she is not enthusisatic about it. She has also lost interest in pellets and the shrimp but will still eat them.

Could the fact that she has eggs inside and is retaining them (she has been digging nests for the past almost week but she wont lay in them!) make her lose her appetite?
Could she be getting sick? :(
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Post Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:15 am   

Both my girls stop eating about a week before they lay eggs. Totally normal I'd say. Make sure they have a steady supply of cuttlebone and a good nesting spot.
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Post Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:28 pm   

Thank you very much, I was getting worried!

What was your nesting spot like? I have been providing one but no results so far...
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