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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enn49" data-source="post: 37790" data-attributes="member: 3458">I was expecting my 2 new Ts today but due to holidays, freezing weather and sellers PC problems they won't be here until Tues/Wed next week. I'd got myself all excited as you do but at least my new containers arrived so I decided to rehouse some of the others.I started with my littlest B. albo, Tinto. I gently removed the cork bark and leaves from the old deli and arranged them in the new tub. Very carefully I emptied the old sub into an empty cricket tub but no sign of the little T. I then checked the cork bark and leaves that I'd switched over but still no Tinto. Four times I searched both tubs then eventually I spotted something odd on the bottom of the cork.<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/user/paulinewallace/media/DSCF7476.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii211/paulinewallace/DSCF7476.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>After a few minutes Tinto emerged<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/user/paulinewallace/media/DSCF7477.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii211/paulinewallace/DSCF7477.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Then came Popo, the smallest of my 2 B. smithi .  How easy can a rehouse get? It was sitting on the leaf and stayed perfectly still as I transferred it to the new container.<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/user/paulinewallace/media/DSCF7474.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii211/paulinewallace/DSCF7474.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Next was Pico, my other B. smithi. Again I gently emptied the sub into the cricket tub and there it was, decidedly bigger than last time I saw it so I guess there's a moult in there somewhere. This one made it easy too by walking into the catch cup then into its new home but went straight into hiding. You can just see it's butt between the cork and plant.<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/user/paulinewallace/media/DSCF7465.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii211/paulinewallace/DSCF7465.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Lastly was the one I was waiting for. Coco my first and biggest B. albo that moulted a few weeks ago. It has grown quite a bit. Coco was no trouble either and it was good to see it other than just the belly through the side.<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/user/paulinewallace/media/DSCF7470.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii211/paulinewallace/DSCF7470.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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