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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VanessaS" data-source="post: 75865" data-attributes="member: 4948">Yes, it has been a very long story. It was my original reason for posting here.I've had her for almost 17 years and she was a WC adult female when I got her. She has not moulted in over three years and had fasted for over nine months. Yes, she is a confirmed female.We checked for nematodes as that was one of the first theories. The current guess is that she is just plain old. In the last couple of weeks she has eaten one cricket and then nothing. Like your girl, Evelyn has fasted on and off all of her life and her abdomen would always stay rounded. This is something new that it has gotten all small.I think that the overall consensus is that she is dying of old age. She has had a very long life, but that doesn't make it less sad.Thank you for your kind words. We'll just have to see what happens.</blockquote>