Hi,
Yet again my san fransisco garter has stopped eating, I am really beginning to get worried as she hasn't eaten in around a month and this is the second time in quite a short space of time that she's refusing to eat. She is about 9-10 months old at the moment. I've tried everything I can think of, various types of safe fish, earthworms scented and unscented, scented and unscented pinkies, leaving the food in her hide during the night, leaving if dotted around the tank for her and wiggling the food in front of her to try and incite her to eat. I've also tried putting slices of fish in her water bowl with small aquarium pump to make the fish move around a bit.

The only idea I have left is trying her with feeder guppies but I'm really struggling to find them around here, I've been into my local aquatic shops but neither had feeder guppies and the tanks weren't well kept so I worried about feeding their fancy guppies to her. She does show some interest in the food, when ever I put anything near her, her tongue starts going ten to the dozen and she goes up really close to it then all of a sudden it's like she just completely loses interest and moves away. Apart from this she seems completely fine, she's always active and looks well.

At the moment she's in a fair sized tank with UV light above her which is on for around 16 hours a day, it has a hot end of about 80°F with the top of her branch at around 84°F (where she spends a fair bit of her time) and this is heated with a reflector bulb. The cool end is around 72°F. Here's a pic of her current set up:



I would really appreciate it if you could give me any advice on how I could encourage her to start eating again.