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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizalba" data-source="post: 193200" data-attributes="member: 31253">Sad news :'( Aurora was directly under the cork bark when I lifted it and had started to decompose <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> there was one moult next to her. The rest of the substrate below seemed to be untouched when I dug it all out, so it doesn't look like she went too far down and couldn't sense prey :/ However I will be careful not to put too much substrate in for future terrestrials. Apologies for the grim pictures but I have posted them in the hope that someone could estimate how long she had been dead for? And what could have caused her to die? It looks like she had got out of the moult successfully and when she first arrived she looked healthy to me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> I had been putting in a small red runner weekly then taking it out when it didn't get eaten, and had also tried leaving a pre-killed mealworm in there then took it out, so there were no crickets/worms that could have attacked her. I had also been moistening part of the substrate every few weeks, whilst trying not to over-do it due to the mould issue. I wonder now if the mould had come up after she had died due to the body remains.</blockquote>

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