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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 49308" data-attributes="member: 3190">Keep your fingers crossed for my little P.Metallica sling please. It had not been doing so well over the past weeks. Only had 1 ore 2 meals after its last moult and I recently had to move it into ICU, because it looked very dehydrated (thought it was in premoult, because it had been hiding and fasting, but then found it squashed up against the tub with a shriveled abdomen). I moved it back into its tub, because it looked plump again and had started to move around inside the ICU. It still wasn't able to move the rear half of its body properly (almost as if it was paralysed), but the front half was working. This morning I found it flipped over. I suspect that for whatever reason it went through a bad premoult phase and had/has difficulties regulating internal fluids therefore couldn't initiate a moult. I hope it manages this one. It's a little fighter and I'd be gutted to lose it (keeping it warm, dark and hydrated).</blockquote>