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Well hes not terribly thin but could gain a little. Reds tend to have shedding issues when they dont have fruits and veggies in their diet. Upping the humidity in the enclosure will greatly help this. You said you had cypress mulch that you could use, I would mix in some organic top soil (walmart 1.89 a bag) with it, it will hold burrows and moisture better than just straight cypress. At that size he can definitely take larger food items. Try hopper mice, you can also blend up some fruits and veggies in a blender and then use a meat syringe and inject the mixture into the mouse that way hes still getting the nutrients from it. Also, they tend to randomly decide to start eating fruits/veggies, especially with size/age so keep offering them even if he wont eat them, you never know one day he may. You can also try drizzle just a little bit of raw egg yolk over new food items to entice him to eat them. But I think offering large mice will definitely improve the growth rate. but be sure to bump your temps as well.

<blockquote data-quote="SnakeCharmr728" data-source="post: 141888" data-attributes="member: 1234"><p>Well hes not terribly thin but could gain a little. Reds tend to have shedding issues when they dont have fruits and veggies in their diet. Upping the humidity in the enclosure will greatly help this. You said you had cypress mulch that you could use, I would mix in some organic top soil (walmart 1.89 a bag) with it, it will hold burrows and moisture better than just straight cypress. At that size he can definitely take larger food items. Try hopper mice, you can also blend up some fruits and veggies in a blender and then use a meat syringe and inject the mixture into the mouse that way hes still getting the nutrients from it. Also, they tend to randomly decide to start eating fruits/veggies, especially with size/age so keep offering them even if he wont eat them, you never know one day he may. You can also try drizzle just a little bit of raw egg yolk over new food items to entice him to eat them. But I think offering large mice will definitely improve the growth rate. but be sure to bump your temps as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="SnakeCharmr728, post: 141888, member: 1234"] Well hes not terribly thin but could gain a little. Reds tend to have shedding issues when they dont have fruits and veggies in their diet. Upping the humidity in the enclosure will greatly help this. You said you had cypress mulch that you could use, I would mix in some organic top soil (walmart 1.89 a bag) with it, it will hold burrows and moisture better than just straight cypress. At that size he can definitely take larger food items. Try hopper mice, you can also blend up some fruits and veggies in a blender and then use a meat syringe and inject the mixture into the mouse that way hes still getting the nutrients from it. Also, they tend to randomly decide to start eating fruits/veggies, especially with size/age so keep offering them even if he wont eat them, you never know one day he may. You can also try drizzle just a little bit of raw egg yolk over new food items to entice him to eat them. But I think offering large mice will definitely improve the growth rate. but be sure to bump your temps as well. [/QUOTE]

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