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Hi everyone, I bought a P. muticus sling a few days ago and when I got it home, everything seemed okay. I gave it a couple of days to settle in and tried to feed it, but it didn't seem to want the food so I took it back out again. It spent most of its time huddled in a corner after that with its legs hunched over defensively, so I made the room dark and left it alone, assuming it was just stressed. Today I saw its legs were very slightly curled under it, but when I nudged it it immediately sprang to life and ran to the other side of the enclosure. I caught it drinking two separate times last night, and the abdomen is rather fat, so I'm not sure why it would be refusing food and huddling in a corner? I've never owned a sling before, so maybe I'm just worrying too much
I will add that I found a lot of dead crickets in the small glass enclosure it was in, and it did stink pretty bad, so I rinsed it all out with warm water and added fresh substrate. I use coco fibre blocks that expand in water. It's still pretty moist because I'd only just made that batch up, but I did wring it out as best as I could. It has a water bottle cap with water, and I made the substrate as deep as I could to give it something to burrow in. The sling is about 1 1/2 inches. I also noticed that it has some kind of whitish patch on the underside of the abdomen, but I can't really get a good look at it. I have no way of getting a picture of the possible death curl yet, but I have a picture from when I first got it.
I will add that I found a lot of dead crickets in the small glass enclosure it was in, and it did stink pretty bad, so I rinsed it all out with warm water and added fresh substrate. I use coco fibre blocks that expand in water. It's still pretty moist because I'd only just made that batch up, but I did wring it out as best as I could. It has a water bottle cap with water, and I made the substrate as deep as I could to give it something to burrow in. The sling is about 1 1/2 inches. I also noticed that it has some kind of whitish patch on the underside of the abdomen, but I can't really get a good look at it. I have no way of getting a picture of the possible death curl yet, but I have a picture from when I first got it.