Hy guys,
I have a quick question about my poecilotherica metallica. She has moltet like 3-4 month ago, now one leg is shorter than the rest, did´nt notice something wrong in her behavior/movement before premolt but it seems that she must have dropped the leg at somepoint, but thats not the problem, it seems that she is on a pretty harsh diet now, has`nt eaten anything after molting. Not when I tried tongfeeding her, even when she was sitting legs out on the entrance to her treehide, like she wants to grab the next best thing that comes by. But everytime she gets spooked and returns to her hide, so I tried leaving one chricket in her enclosure for some time and let it wander on its own to the entrance, pretty much same effekt, she just retreads back into und up her hide. I know that T´s can go a long time without food, and that this spezies is very shy off light and likes to hide all day long, what makes checking on her pretty hard, but from what I can see is her abdomen still not dangerously small, at the moment I keep her enclosure a little bit more moistered and provide water for her allday long. But could it be that she isnt enjoing her enclosure, maybe to big or to empty?
Had some green in there but it died off, seems the substrate isnt suited for plants but earth with fertilizer is not good for T´s probably have to get some plastic plants to make it look nice and give her more space to better climb around and hide behind. But the point is at the moment its pretty much just her hide and a branch and a couple off dried up leafes from my palmtree, looks pretty boring, I have to say.
The other thing is her hide, from the inside it has gotten pretty filthy, her old molt is stuck in there with all the webbing from molting, dont know if I should give her another option for a new hide so she relocate if she wants to. Don´t think it would be a good idear to clean her hide forcefully.
Her dls is about 5/6 cm when just sitting on the glas, and her enclosure is like 20x20x40. Think its a bit to big for her, but with the makeshift "plants" there is not really a danger for her falling all the way from the top to the bottom when she slips.
Would be nice to hear some off your thoughts on the matter, I mean at the moment its not really an emergency, just wanted to hear if its within normal behavior for that old world to not eat for so long expecially after molting, or if something is maybe off that needs some change.
Thx in advance and sry for any spelling errors =P
I have a quick question about my poecilotherica metallica. She has moltet like 3-4 month ago, now one leg is shorter than the rest, did´nt notice something wrong in her behavior/movement before premolt but it seems that she must have dropped the leg at somepoint, but thats not the problem, it seems that she is on a pretty harsh diet now, has`nt eaten anything after molting. Not when I tried tongfeeding her, even when she was sitting legs out on the entrance to her treehide, like she wants to grab the next best thing that comes by. But everytime she gets spooked and returns to her hide, so I tried leaving one chricket in her enclosure for some time and let it wander on its own to the entrance, pretty much same effekt, she just retreads back into und up her hide. I know that T´s can go a long time without food, and that this spezies is very shy off light and likes to hide all day long, what makes checking on her pretty hard, but from what I can see is her abdomen still not dangerously small, at the moment I keep her enclosure a little bit more moistered and provide water for her allday long. But could it be that she isnt enjoing her enclosure, maybe to big or to empty?
Had some green in there but it died off, seems the substrate isnt suited for plants but earth with fertilizer is not good for T´s probably have to get some plastic plants to make it look nice and give her more space to better climb around and hide behind. But the point is at the moment its pretty much just her hide and a branch and a couple off dried up leafes from my palmtree, looks pretty boring, I have to say.
The other thing is her hide, from the inside it has gotten pretty filthy, her old molt is stuck in there with all the webbing from molting, dont know if I should give her another option for a new hide so she relocate if she wants to. Don´t think it would be a good idear to clean her hide forcefully.
Her dls is about 5/6 cm when just sitting on the glas, and her enclosure is like 20x20x40. Think its a bit to big for her, but with the makeshift "plants" there is not really a danger for her falling all the way from the top to the bottom when she slips.
Would be nice to hear some off your thoughts on the matter, I mean at the moment its not really an emergency, just wanted to hear if its within normal behavior for that old world to not eat for so long expecially after molting, or if something is maybe off that needs some change.
Thx in advance and sry for any spelling errors =P
