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Floppy Abdomen and/or Abdomen Collapse
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<blockquote data-quote="MantisTrainer" data-source="post: 350002" data-attributes="member: 13575"><p>Thank you so much for the advice, I am working on getting some enclosure modifications for him. I can't get a fishbowl but for now, I have ordered a mesh cube that I will orient to keep one corner at the top where I will hang several fake plants so that he has difficulty hanging upside down.</p><p></p><p>It does look like was starved and I suppose that is partly my fault as I anticipated a molt a little early and stopped feeding it too soon. The thing that still confuses me though, is that during the previous instar, I fed it regularly and after every feeding, its abdomen would get nice and plump. But then, several minutes after feeding, its abdomen would shrink back down to paper-thin as if I hadn't fed it at all. The odd part is that I didn't observe the food coming back out as fecal matter or vomit, it just looked like it vanished.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MantisTrainer, post: 350002, member: 13575"] Thank you so much for the advice, I am working on getting some enclosure modifications for him. I can't get a fishbowl but for now, I have ordered a mesh cube that I will orient to keep one corner at the top where I will hang several fake plants so that he has difficulty hanging upside down. It does look like was starved and I suppose that is partly my fault as I anticipated a molt a little early and stopped feeding it too soon. The thing that still confuses me though, is that during the previous instar, I fed it regularly and after every feeding, its abdomen would get nice and plump. But then, several minutes after feeding, its abdomen would shrink back down to paper-thin as if I hadn't fed it at all. The odd part is that I didn't observe the food coming back out as fecal matter or vomit, it just looked like it vanished. [/QUOTE]
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