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Dealing with a bad molt
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<blockquote data-quote="Thrillhouse" data-source="post: 304403" data-attributes="member: 9276"><p>Well, I'm not sure what to do now.</p><p></p><p>I got home after work expecting it to be dead, but it was still kicking. It's missing one left back leg, and the foot of the other back leg. It's head was still attached to its raptors, and after I cut the molted chitin and separated its head from its raptors, it was free to chew at the rest of the molted skin that hadn't shed. Unfortunately, it can't sit up right, and its raptors didn't finish molting, so they're pretty useless. It also has part of its face molt stuck on its antenna. I want to cut it out, but I don't want to cut its antenna.</p><p></p><p>So, I think the poor guy is pretty much a goner, but I've been hand feeding it fruit flies, since it's still pretty small, maybe L3 or 4, and if it can manage to pull through I'm fine with hand feeding it. I just don't know how it will manage to molt again in its condition. Really not sure what to do, but if it continues to eat, I don't want to freeze it. It may still have enough molts to recover, if it can make it through this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thrillhouse, post: 304403, member: 9276"] Well, I'm not sure what to do now. I got home after work expecting it to be dead, but it was still kicking. It's missing one left back leg, and the foot of the other back leg. It's head was still attached to its raptors, and after I cut the molted chitin and separated its head from its raptors, it was free to chew at the rest of the molted skin that hadn't shed. Unfortunately, it can't sit up right, and its raptors didn't finish molting, so they're pretty useless. It also has part of its face molt stuck on its antenna. I want to cut it out, but I don't want to cut its antenna. So, I think the poor guy is pretty much a goner, but I've been hand feeding it fruit flies, since it's still pretty small, maybe L3 or 4, and if it can manage to pull through I'm fine with hand feeding it. I just don't know how it will manage to molt again in its condition. Really not sure what to do, but if it continues to eat, I don't want to freeze it. It may still have enough molts to recover, if it can make it through this. [/QUOTE]
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