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Hi,

I have recently got a Cyriocosmus elgeans (trinidad love-heart butt dwarf) - I have called her Mika. She is sooo cute, but with her being even smaller than a normal sling (she is about 0.5cm) tending to her is a bit of a challenge especially when I don't know where she is, so I don't want to go poking around in case I squish her. I had seen her out and about the other day, although she hides now when I take the lid off - so I put a micro cricket in for her. With my other Ts I take the cricket out if they don't eat it, but with Mika - the cricket, being even smaller than she is, disappeared into the substrate quickly, so now I have no way of telling whether she ate it or not :/ It has been a few days now and I have not seen her since either. I really hope she ate it then is just recovering from her meal/tunnelling or something, but I worry what if she went into molt and the cricket attacked her.

This is a pic of her in her enclosure when I first got her. I have been using a pipette to put water droplets on the moss daily so she has something to drink.

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<blockquote data-quote="Gizalba" data-source="post: 178897" data-attributes="member: 31253">Hi, I have recently got a Cyriocosmus elgeans (trinidad love-heart butt dwarf) - I have called her Mika. She is sooo cute, but with her being even smaller than a normal sling (she is about 0.5cm) tending to her is a bit of a challenge especially when I don't know where she is, so I don't want to go poking around in case I squish her. I had seen her out and about the other day, although she hides now when I take the lid off - so I put a micro cricket in for her. With my other Ts I take the cricket out if they don't eat it, but with Mika - the cricket, being even smaller than she is, disappeared into the substrate quickly, so now I have no way of telling whether she ate it or not :/ It has been a few days now and I have not seen her since either. I really hope she ate it then is just recovering from her meal/tunnelling or something, but I worry what if she went into molt and the cricket attacked her. This is a pic of her in her enclosure when I first got her. I have been using a pipette to put water droplets on the moss daily so she has something to drink. [ATTACH=full]48563[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gizalba, post: 178897, member: 31253"] Hi, I have recently got a Cyriocosmus elgeans (trinidad love-heart butt dwarf) - I have called her Mika. She is sooo cute, but with her being even smaller than a normal sling (she is about 0.5cm) tending to her is a bit of a challenge especially when I don't know where she is, so I don't want to go poking around in case I squish her. I had seen her out and about the other day, although she hides now when I take the lid off - so I put a micro cricket in for her. With my other Ts I take the cricket out if they don't eat it, but with Mika - the cricket, being even smaller than she is, disappeared into the substrate quickly, so now I have no way of telling whether she ate it or not :/ It has been a few days now and I have not seen her since either. I really hope she ate it then is just recovering from her meal/tunnelling or something, but I worry what if she went into molt and the cricket attacked her. This is a pic of her in her enclosure when I first got her. I have been using a pipette to put water droplets on the moss daily so she has something to drink. [ATTACH type="full"]48563[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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