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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enn49" data-source="post: 76952" data-attributes="member: 3458">Yesterday afternoon I decided to rehouse 4 Ts into larger containers and all went well until the last one, my little Neostenotarsus sp Suriname, Kalina. It had been doing so well, eating well but it had burrowed right to the bottom of the vial so apart from a few brief sightings of it scuttling around I'd not seen it properly for a while, I just knew it was big enough to move from the vial to a 3" cube. I gently emptied the contents of the vial into a cricket tub until I found the T, Kalina ran as expected so I put an empty vial in front of it and in it ran. Great I thought, this is an easy one but then just as I was about to put it in the new container Kalina curled up, stopped moving. Then I noticed a moult in the substrate that I'd emptied out of its old vial. The poor little soul had just moulted and I killed it by disturbing it before it had hardened. I've left Kalina the vial overnight but this morning although no longer curled there is no sign of life. I feel so bad, if only I'd waited until today to rehouse it would have had chance to harden a bit.</blockquote>