I’ve had Kermit for nearly two years, she has 45 gallons of space with coconut fiber bedding, I use a mix of distilled and dechlorinated water.
Her entire life she’s been an absolute vacuum cleaner, with a huge feeding response and ravenous. But about a month ago I decided to change her bedding (first bedding change since moving to a bigger tank) and we’ve been having problems ever since. She hasn’t been coming up for food like she usually does, I’ve had to dig her up to make sure she eats and she’s been on a kind of hunger strike. The last thing she ate was 2 hornworms a week ago. The first time I tried to feed her after the bedding swap was something she had never tried before and absolutely refused it (store ran out of night crawlers, decided to try frozen thawed fuzzies)
Sometimes I can get her to eat and other times I can’t. She hates being picked up and I hate stressing her out, she doesn’t seem lethargic as she kicks dirt at me and runs away when I try to feed her. But I noticed her feet were red and I wanted some advice.
Should I just leave her alone until she finally decides she doesn’t hate me anymore and surfaces herself instead of digging her up to make her eat or would it be a good idea to go to the vet and get their opinion.