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For the past 2 days my BTS, Thistle, has been sleeping all day and ate almost nothing.
I have not been worried, and today I know why. Today she is buried under the substrate as much as she can be, and is slowly crawling all over the enclosure. She is scraping her old skin off with the coco chip!
My question is this...why for a couple days before shedding is she so withdrawn? Does she feel sick? More vulnerable? In pain?
She has no difficulty getting it off. It's coming off her in sizeable sheets, just like a really bad sunburn.
I have not been worried, and today I know why. Today she is buried under the substrate as much as she can be, and is slowly crawling all over the enclosure. She is scraping her old skin off with the coco chip!
My question is this...why for a couple days before shedding is she so withdrawn? Does she feel sick? More vulnerable? In pain?
She has no difficulty getting it off. It's coming off her in sizeable sheets, just like a really bad sunburn.