I just adopted 2 more huge guys (bigger than jumbo) with lost limbs. One is missing one leg and the other is missing small pincher and one leg. I now have all my guys that are missing legs in one iso together and they seem to be happy. My original one is coming out and visiting the others and I saw him at the food and water dishes last night. I think that is pretty exciting. I am also keeping the humidity in their tank higher than my new adoption iso and two main tanks. I will keep you updated.
Question-Do I need to crush up food for the ones missing limbs or should I let them pick it apart themselves?
Adopted 2 more guys missing limbs
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Well, I lost one of the new guys last night but the other two are still going strong. The one I have had over a month seems quite happy to scoot around eating, drinking and sleeping and sometimes I pick him up to clean under him and he comes out to greet me. Silly Scooter. He seems to have adjusted fine. I hope the other one destresses and does well. I am certainly hoping Scooter makes it through amolt, he just seems so happy all the time. I love that guy. Everybody is always asking me how my two legged crab is and I tell them he's great and still living. They are always shocked to hear that. He's got spirit. Crushing the food helped him a lot. The other crab is missing one leg so he can eat just fine. Scooter became quite the little piggy with stuff he couldn't eat before that I was putting in the tank.
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Oh, cool. That makes sense. I hope that I won't have to, my hermits are both still pretty shy, I don't know if they would do that. They are both doing very well though. They both molted a few weeks ago, and seem to have much more energy, they are climbing on EVERYTHING now. The little one even clumbed up one of the choya wood pieces that I had on end, and went from it into the plastic palm tree. I couldn't find him anywere, he is still in the painted shell he came in, though he has plenty to change in to, and blended in. When I found him, I laughed. They are lots of fun.
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