help! leg issues cuz of fall during molt..

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blackwidow89

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as you can see, my biggest favoritest chinese mantid fell during a molt and now her legs are all bent and she's having a lot of trouble getting around. her front right raptoral keeps getting caught on her face and her back legs seem pretty much unusable..

so now to keep her alive til she molts again..

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but idk if she'll be able to get to the top when she needs to molt again..

and am I supposed to remove her broken legs sp she doesn't have to drag them around??

help me pleeaase

 
I don't know about taking off the legs, but someone on here said you could use spider web pieces to hold them in the moltimg position

 
Keep offering water and you may need to hold her food for her with tweezers. I would leave the legs alone. I feel if you cut them off she may get a bacterial infection. Hopefully you will be able to tell when the molting time comes near so you can help her out. I am doing the same thing right now with a different species. My little guy has deformed raptors as well but I am optimistic....

 
Leave the legs alone. If they're really bothering her she'll probably chew them off herself.
They should fix themselves in the next molt, but you should check to make sure she can cling upside down securely on her own--if not, you'll need to help her when it comes time for her to molt.

 

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