What would you do?

[Laemia]

I am wondering what you all think I should do? I have a Texas Unicorn - phyllovates chlorophaea and when I first got him his left arm was twisted and didn't seem to work at all. In his last moult he got quite stuck due to the twisting and now both arms don't work at all. I wish I had a camera that could take a close up photo of it so you could all see it. My question is should I cut the left arm off at the elbow? I'm thinking that in the next moult he will be stuck again maybe worse then the last time and I won't be able to him. I hand feed with no problems at all.

 

[hibiscusmile]

I would leave him alone, I would think IMO anyway that being since the arm is there the new molt will replace it , without it it may not.

 

[Rick]

Both arms don't work? He would become food for another of my critters. You asked what I would do.

 

[Guest_Laemia_*]

Well, I just wanted to let the two of you who responded to my post know that he shed again and the arm is gone at the elbow! Very strange that it happened right where I was thinking of cutting it. But now the right arm is fine and works so I may not need to keep hand feeding him long.