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03/30/10(Tue)04:20 No.8871970
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That's
an old picture, her tail's gone way down since then.
Humidity is
low, not hard to do since I live in California. I think the temperature
might have something to do with it; I may have to rearrange my room
such that she is no longer next to a window, it's hard to keep the right
side of the tank at a constant 91 degrees.
Substrate is, well,
nothing. I have her on some slate tiles that have fine-grain sand
filling the cracks between them, and I make sure it's all packed down in
the cracks before I put her in the cage. I was neglecting maintenance
of her cage for a bit as well, it's been at least two months, as many as
four since I last cleaned it all out properly. But her appetite's
always been rather odd.
She used to love waxworms and now won't
touch them. I had her on giant mealworms for a while and she liked those
then abruptly stopped liking them. She seems to not want crickets right
now, which is a phase she's gone through before. I tried giving her
phoenix worms before but for some reason I couldn't get her to eat them
unless she ate a waxworm or mealworm first, after which she would go
nuts for them. I can't find any place nearby that sells butterworms or
silkworms.
I make sure she has water all the time, but there
have been times when I forgot to check on her and she had the same water
for two or three days. I always dust her food with calcium and
sometimes with a multivitamin, not that it's helping now.
Here's
her cage setup. Coconut was too small, got rid of it. She used to sleep
under the little stairwell thingy, now she is constantly underneath the
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