FR 5

 FR 5

September 26th - 27th, 2022

Pixie was excellent acting a bit slow, thus my partner and I decided it would be best to continue on FR 5 two day sin a row. The reason for the continuation into the second day was because Pixie didn’t seem to understand that the lever press was increased to 5, and it took longer for her to get the reward, she didn’t seem to like that too much. But this allowed her more time to gain the knowledge that the pellet would be delivered if she didn’t give up.

On day one of FR5 Pixie pressed the lever a total of 623 times for the total 30 minutes, leaving the pellet delivery at 124.

Weighing in at 215.9 grams on the 26th an fed 8.3 grams.

The second day, Pixie pressed the lever 639 times for the whole 30 minutes, there wasn’t much of an increase.

Weighing in at 216.2 grams on the 27th and fed 7.8 grams.

Eventually learning the routine she began to push the lever faster and gained the reward quicker, to her liking. 

Pixie in her cage, after weighing.