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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 58515" data-attributes="member: 3190">It was doing fine until its last moult, although looking back it hardly grew with any molt before that.After its last molt it had one small meal and then went into hiding, which I thought of as completely normal for a P. Met. Then one day I found it at the bottom of its bark. I left it alone, but noticed it had difficulties climbing and generally hardly moved, seemed paralyzed in its back legs. I ended up putting it in ICU, where it perked up after a while, so put it back into its jar (cleaned it out, just in case). It looked like it tried to molt, went on its back but after a day like that, it suddenly flipped back over not molted. I put it back in ICU after a few days, so I could make sure it was keeping hydrated and in a dark quiet area, but it died a soon after.Nothing had changed in its husbandry, so with it always having been quite runty, I wonder whether it was just not able to molt for internal reasons. Some slings are just not meant to live <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />. The slings are not too expensive in the UK anymore (£25 - $37), but it's the feeling of failure that got to me, as it had been my first and only OW.</blockquote>