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Holy hell.
Holy hell.
I haven't been this stressed about slings in ages. I got three A. ezendami and two P. cambridgei 2i/3i slings from @cold blood awhile ago, and they've hardly eaten since I received them. In fact, both P. cambridgei molted over two weeks ago and have yet to eat - note that they hadn't eaten even before the molt. The A. ezendami have gone even longer. I've offered everything: mealworms, waxworms, dubias, and crickets, all of varying sizes and all at various stages of prekilled. No dice. All slings seemed interested, but never actually took anything down. This has been going on for quite some time, and unfortunately, I lost an A. ezendami during the time that I've been trying to figure it out.
Today, in an act of desperation, I figured it out. I moved all of them into my bathroom, which is kept roughly 70-75F versus the 80-85F that my T room is in. I did this to give them a blast of humidity from the shower, but several circumstances led to me not showering this morning. When I put them in there, I also offered dubia nymphs without a crushed head. That is, 100% alive and thriving. I checked in on them a few hours later to find all of them happily munching on a roach. Either they appreciate the cooler environment or they want me to stop crushing heads. Either way, four slings across two species don't lie. They're going to stay in my bathroom until they're juvies.
Ah. Such a relief. Sorry for the rant, I'm just wildly excited about this. I'm pretty disappointed in losing one of the ezendami's, but I'm extremely happy about figuring out the issue.
Holy hell.
I haven't been this stressed about slings in ages. I got three A. ezendami and two P. cambridgei 2i/3i slings from @cold blood awhile ago, and they've hardly eaten since I received them. In fact, both P. cambridgei molted over two weeks ago and have yet to eat - note that they hadn't eaten even before the molt. The A. ezendami have gone even longer. I've offered everything: mealworms, waxworms, dubias, and crickets, all of varying sizes and all at various stages of prekilled. No dice. All slings seemed interested, but never actually took anything down. This has been going on for quite some time, and unfortunately, I lost an A. ezendami during the time that I've been trying to figure it out.
Today, in an act of desperation, I figured it out. I moved all of them into my bathroom, which is kept roughly 70-75F versus the 80-85F that my T room is in. I did this to give them a blast of humidity from the shower, but several circumstances led to me not showering this morning. When I put them in there, I also offered dubia nymphs without a crushed head. That is, 100% alive and thriving. I checked in on them a few hours later to find all of them happily munching on a roach. Either they appreciate the cooler environment or they want me to stop crushing heads. Either way, four slings across two species don't lie. They're going to stay in my bathroom until they're juvies.
Ah. Such a relief. Sorry for the rant, I'm just wildly excited about this. I'm pretty disappointed in losing one of the ezendami's, but I'm extremely happy about figuring out the issue.
