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Chaco golden knee won't eat!!!

Tayler0203

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I've had my Chaco golden knee for about 4 months now, and she is still extremely skittish, and I haven't seen her eat, and I'm starting to get worried. I TRY to feed her four adult pinhead crickets once a week, but she refuses to have anything to do with them. I end up having to remove the crickets after a day has gone by and she hasn't touched them!! I've been reading and I've read that t's don't eat while they're in premolt, but I don't know any of the signs of premolt :( I was looking at her in her cage and I shined my phone flashlight at her abdomen and noticed that there was a shiny beige patch underneath the hair. Does this indicate premolt?? Anyways, if anyone could help me with her feeding issues that would be great!
 

Nicolas C

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Hello Tayler. I assume your G pulchripes is a sling if you feed it pinheads (or: what is an adult pinhead?) or is it an adult? Four months is nothing for an adult...

To help us help you, we need some more informations:
- size of your T
- a picture of the enclosure and of the T (specially the abdomen but also the two pedipalps if it's an adult)
- what are the temps / humidity / substrate / where is the enclosure in the room (next to a window?)



Envoyé de mon iPad en utilisant Tapatalk
 

LC72uk

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Hi,
A sure sign if your G pulchripes is in pre molt she will start to lay a small Web mat to flip over on to when she molts.:):T:
 

kormath

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Hi,
A sure sign if your G pulchripes is in pre molt she will start to lay a small Web mat to flip over on to when she molts.:):T:
depends on size maybe? mine didn't start laying a web mat till about 1 or 1.5 inches DLS. It would molt in it's burrow before that size. Then again, it may have made a mat in the burrow i couldn't see :)

Hello Tayler. I assume your G pulchripes is a sling if you feed it pinheads (or: what is an adult pinhead?) or is it an adult? Four months is nothing for an adult...
That made me scratch my head also :)
 

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