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I'm used to this sort of thing - I have a burrowing snake, after all. Sometimes you just gotta assume its alive - if the food has been mysteriously disappearing, then it's probably alive.
Since Pumpkin died, I've been waiting to find another g. pulchripes sling on sale. I got one, and its...
She last molted really early this year - I didn't notice it had happened until I cleaned her enclosure and found the remains hidden in her burrow. I'd been thinking it was a long time since she'd molted.
Here's a pic. I haven't had the heart to remove her from her enclosure yet.
Yeah I really came on just to see if there was anything I could do.
Turns out she was not molting. I didn't really think she was, but there's nothing you can do y'know? She was being sluggish and not eating for a few months and it was really not like her.
She died a few days ago :( I'm going...
Her abdomen looks smaller than usual, I suspect because she's not eating - it's shrunk when she hasn't eaten for long periods of time before. Otherwise her colors are pretty dull(as if she needs to molt).
I'm not sure if this is a bad thing or not, but I couldn't help raising an eyebrow the last time I upgraded my g. pulchripes.
I usually don't go digging around in her substrate, for obvious reasons, so imagine my surprise when I was cleaning out her webbed carpet in the old enclosure and there...
I've had glorious little Pumpkin for over 3 years now, she's a G. Pulchripes, and I got her when she was tinier than my pinkie nail and she lived in a glorified test tube (idk if she's a she, she's a bit small to tell). She's also my first - and only - t.
She's always been a good eater - I've...