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Thank you. Really? You think she's a wee fat? I thought she was normal for an LP. I don't see her eat that often. Must be she's got a thyroid problem :p Anyway thank you. I'm not sure if I should reduce feeding, as she doesn't eat that often anyway. More often than not if I introduce a Dubia or...
and let us not forget how individual different T personalities are. Picklez isn't the eater most LP's are, and my OBT sling has built a funnel web in a burrow but she likes to sit at the entrance and watch the goings on in my office. I read Stan's book like it's a bible, but still find some...
and while we are at it, ya'll don't see any signs of mites do you? so far I've managed to avoid them. Also, I have a lovely little A. versicolor that's about 1.5 DSL right now and happily inhabiting an Exo terra mesh top arboreal enclosure. I know they need good cross ventilation, and as she...
In this case, I don't think you are wrong. It stands to reason that, as you all have said, her bum is phat and healthy and FAB, she moves and molts normally, and nothing is leaking, that I've ever noticed. And Matt, yes, that is something of what it looks like, only with Picklez, when she moves...
Not really dragging her bottom, more like splits open when bent at the waist. I tried to describe it as over a wall and all the goods are showing. Thank you for your reply though :) I'm sorry to hear about yours having a rug burn, so to speak. My scorps get like that before they go into...
BRILLIANT!!!!! Thank you sooooooo much! I do believe you are quite correct in your estimation that the pedicel is too long or weak to hold her phat bottom's weight. So pleased to finally have an explanation. Well done and welcome to the boards Nunua
Well, she's not dragging her abdomen at all really. It's when she walks about her tank and encounters something she needs to climb over. Imagine yourself hoisting your waist over a wall and your torso bending on one side of it and your legs on the other. And now imagine not having any skin on...
Okay, this morning I attempted to prod her into a position where I might grab a photo better depicting what I've seen. I also spent some more time on line last night researching T anatomy, and think I have a possible answer. I've included a pic off the net so we can all see better what I'm...
as much as I wish I could catch a video of it, these pics are the best I can do for now, and even these don't show her doing much but sitting. It's when she is creeping around her tank and she comes to a log or something she needs to crawl over that this "bending in half" thing takes place...
Okay, I've noticed something with my girl Pickles, my LP, she's grown to about a 5.5" DLS, and seems pretty much okay, EXCEPT, when she walks, or crawls over her tank logs etc, the carapace seems to separate from the abdomen far too much to leave me comfortable, I SWEAR I can see so much flesh...
Hello all, forgive me but my eyes are bad, any help is appreciated. Found this molt in the tank, the scorpling juvie is hiding somewhere cozy in a mound of warm moist cocoa fiber and don't want to disturb it. Thanks in advance,
Kelly