Anyone An Expert On Monster Rearing?

Been working on a few of these this year. But I'm stuck on a Mandy.

Namely I've got the Adenium, but it won't evolve into Elder Adenium. I've had it months. It's at three stars.

I've fed it all sorts. It's supposed to accept liquids and I've fed it 2x Sweet tea HNM pops, which according to wiki will automatically work if the star setting is correct. Not worked at all.

What am I doing wrong?!

EDIT: On wiki what exactly does that ====> mean in the table?

That line means don't feed it, it will evolve by its own.

Give it rearing priority for "growth".

So is feeding it actually detrimental?

No, just unnecessary

You should however continue to feed it and pet it so it won't go dark (Distilled water not rare stuff)

As far as it being stuck, you must've accidentally changed it's style from Personal Growth to Enjoying the Moment, change it back

As Dodik said, it does not have an evolution food. There is a chance you may have changed the parenting style to "enjoying the moment", which will be stopping it from evolving. Change it to "Personal Growth" and then wait to see if it evolves naturally. Keep giving it distilled water and petting each day to keep it happy.

Sweet Tea is only for the Lunar Wyrm evolution and will not help this to evolve quicker.

The sheep, crab, slime, dragon hatchling, behemoth, cactus, mandragora, dhalmel and ferromantoise monsters require ★★☆ (2.5) stars before they will evolve.

So after that its just rng, no evo item is needed, just keep checking it. The jumbotender is similar even with an evo item and i dont really bother unless rearing campaigns going

also possible that no one has found which food works for an extra chance to evolve. there's quite a few and not many people bother testing especially after getting their memento for a given monster.