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Health Issues
Camelomantis slowly recovering but eye swelling getting worse
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<blockquote data-quote="Predatorhousepet" data-source="post: 333097" data-attributes="member: 10650"><p>I didn't end up putting her down, I was going to but changed my mind last minute. I was feeding her a last meal and noticed she anticipated the spoon coming towards her, she grabbed onto it before excitedly dunking her head in to eat...so she was able to identify the spoon well enough to know what it was. I reasoned she had to have some vision still then I remembered that mantids have 5 eyes, the two big compound eyes for detail and depth perception and 3 simple eyes in the middle of the forehead for light detection. The 3 simple eyes are unaffected so she can distinguish light at the very least.</p><p></p><p>The swelling in her right eye eventually went down and now some of the green color around the pseudopupil has returned so she may have limited vision out of that eye, hard to tell. The left one is still completely dark purple and has some swelling but it's not as bad as it was. She still eats the bug burger slurry every day and has a good appetite, she hooks her raptoral arms over the edge of the spoon, grabbing onto it. I tried offering a fly a few times but she still won't take a bite. She mostly sits on the ground still which worried me but she resumed hanging sideways after I placed a large flat piece of bark vertically in her terrarium. She always stays very low to the ground though, maybe she's trying to avoid falling again? She's never tried hanging inverted from the ceiling since this started but she has the ability to climb surfaces if she wishes, I have seen her hanging on the glass sideways. I'll try to take some pictures if her eyes later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Predatorhousepet, post: 333097, member: 10650"] I didn't end up putting her down, I was going to but changed my mind last minute. I was feeding her a last meal and noticed she anticipated the spoon coming towards her, she grabbed onto it before excitedly dunking her head in to eat...so she was able to identify the spoon well enough to know what it was. I reasoned she had to have some vision still then I remembered that mantids have 5 eyes, the two big compound eyes for detail and depth perception and 3 simple eyes in the middle of the forehead for light detection. The 3 simple eyes are unaffected so she can distinguish light at the very least. The swelling in her right eye eventually went down and now some of the green color around the pseudopupil has returned so she may have limited vision out of that eye, hard to tell. The left one is still completely dark purple and has some swelling but it's not as bad as it was. She still eats the bug burger slurry every day and has a good appetite, she hooks her raptoral arms over the edge of the spoon, grabbing onto it. I tried offering a fly a few times but she still won't take a bite. She mostly sits on the ground still which worried me but she resumed hanging sideways after I placed a large flat piece of bark vertically in her terrarium. She always stays very low to the ground though, maybe she's trying to avoid falling again? She's never tried hanging inverted from the ceiling since this started but she has the ability to climb surfaces if she wishes, I have seen her hanging on the glass sideways. I'll try to take some pictures if her eyes later. [/QUOTE]
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