Ruby's Journal Page 3
June 9 2004: She really put on some weight this week and is up to 232 grams! Unfortunatly she was blue and didn't eat, so she'll probably lose some of it : (.
June 16,2004:  She had a good one peice shed and only weighed 214 grams. She ate 1 rat hopper this week.
June 30,2004: Since she was doing so good on the rat hoppers (and because I ran out of them) I tried moving her up to weanlings. She tried eating it backwards so, I thought she'd have no problems with it. She got it swallowed up to the front legs and spit it out : (. I think the front legs were sticking out too far and she couldn't work her way around them. So, she didn't eat this week. She weighed in at 212 grams.
July 7,2004: Since I'm out of rat hoppers and she spit out the weanlings, I tried getting more hoppers at the reptile shop. They only had fuzzies. So, she ate 2 rat fuzzies this week. The next show isn't till Aug. 4th, so I have about a month to try and get her up to weanlings, or I'll have to buy weanlings AND hoppers! I measured her at 39.4" and weighed her at 210 grams.
July 15,2004: She ate one rat fuzzy, and weighed 220 grams.
July 21,2004: She ate one rat fuzzy (the store was out of hoppers) and weighed 232 grams.
July 30,2004: She didn't eat this week, but she was blue......or actually pink! LOL She weighed in at 248 grams.
Aug. 11,2004: I didn't mark down what day she shed, but I KNOW she did! LOL I don't remember if she ate last week either? Probably not because she only weighed 226 grams. She didn't eat this week either. I've HEARD Pyros shut down early Aug/Sept., so maybe she's shutting down already? I think I thought that last year too, and she started pigging out when I wrote her off as being shut down! LOL
Aug. 19,2004: Not a dramatic feeding, but she did finally eat. She ate one mouse, and weighed only 220 grams.
Aug. 26,2004: She ignored her mouse this week, but ate 2 of Phoenix's fuzzies. At least it's something ; ). She didn't grow too much since last time. She's just up to 39.9" and weighed 236 grams.
Sept. 4,2004: She didn't eat again. I think I'm going to get her a few small adult mice and see if the smaller prey will get her going. She weighed 233 grams this week.
Sept. 11,2004: She ate one of the live fuzzies that was too big for Sky, but that's it. She weighed 232 grams.
Sept. 18,2004: She didn't eat again. I guess the only reason she ate last week was because it was live. I guess she's shutting down for now.
Oct. 2,2004: She still isn't eating, and is now down to 230 grams.
Oct. 9,2004: Still nothing! I even got her some hoppers this week. She's down to 226 grams. I think I'm going to turn her heat off so she doesn't loose to much more weight. I did measurements this week and she SHRANK! She only measured in at 37.5". I guess not eating takes a lot out of a snake!!! LOL
Oct. 19,2004: She FINALLY ate something!!! She took 3 hopper mice, and weighed in at only 224 grams.
Oct. 27,2004: She ate 3 hoppers again! seems like she's starting to come around : ))). She weighed in at 236 grams this week.
Nov. 4,3004: She only ate one hopper this week, and weighed in at 244 grams.
Nov. 13,2004: She didn't eat anything this week. She weighed 248 grams. I measured her at 40.5". So, either the last measurement was bad, OR she shrank and had a growht spurt!! You decide ; )!
Nov. 21,2004: She ate 2 hoppers this week, and weighed in at 240 grams.
Dec. 12,2004: I missed a feeding last week because of the holidays, but she ate one hopper this week. She only weighed 210 grams. Seems like the more they weigh, the more they lost last week. Champ actually weighed almost 200 grams less this week! I think it's a problem with the scale.
Dec. 18,2004: She didn't eat anything this week. I didn't weigh her because of the scale problem.
Jan. 1,2004: She didn't eat anything again. : /
Jan.20,2005: She's still not eating. I did measurements, and she measured 40.3". Hmmmm.....shrinking, but not to the extent Bones usually does.
Jan.30,2005: Still not eating!
Feb. 6,2005: FINALLY!! She ate one of the little ones hoppers. At lest it's something! Hopefully she'll start coming around now. She even looked like she was coming out of being blue!
Feb. 13,2005: Looks like she was just going into blue. Because she was blue today, and didn't eat.
Feb. 24,2005: She shed today, and had it half way into her water dish. I wound up tearing it when I try lifting it out of her tank. : /. I weighed her in at 240 grams.
Feb. 26,2005: She FINALLY ate again! This time it was even a decent meal! She ate 2 weanling mice. She still weighed in at 240 grams.
March 5,2005: Looks like she's finally coming around. She took 1 weanling mouse again today.She weighed in at 250 grams.
March 13,2005: She ate 1 weanling mouse again, and still weighed in at 250 grams. Since it seems like she's starting to come around, I think I'll try getting her on normal sized prey again. I measured her at 40.2".