I'm feeling soooo bad.

[Enn49]

Yesterday afternoon I decided to rehouse 4 Ts into larger containers and all went well until the last one, my little Neostenotarsus sp Suriname, Kalina. It had been doing so well, eating well but it had burrowed right to the bottom of the vial so apart from a few brief sightings of it scuttling around I'd not seen it properly for a while, I just knew it was big enough to move from the vial to a 3" cube. I gently emptied the contents of the vial into a cricket tub until I found the T, Kalina ran as expected so I put an empty vial in front of it and in it ran. Great I thought, this is an easy one but then just as I was about to put it in the new container Kalina curled up, stopped moving. Then I noticed a moult in the substrate that I'd emptied out of its old vial. The poor little soul had just moulted and I killed it by disturbing it before it had hardened. I've left Kalina the vial overnight but this morning although no longer curled there is no sign of life. I feel so bad, if only I'd waited until today to rehouse it would have had chance to harden a bit.

 

[Kymura]

Oh honey
I feel so bad for you. Absolutely no way you could have known. -pours good strong tea-

 

[Enn49]

@Kymura Thank you. I know it was just bad timing but I still feel so bad.

 

[MassExodus]

I'm sorry Enn, that sucks.

 

[Enn49]

@MassExodus Thank you. What makes it worse is that it was a Christmas present from my son.

 

[MassExodus]

That is worse...there's only one remedy Enn. A new scorpion.

 

[Enn49]

That is worse...there's only one remedy Enn. A new scorpion.

Ooo, no, I just can't get excited about scorps but maybe a new T or 2

 

[VanessaS]

I'm so sorry.

 

[kormath]

sorry to hear this, but i'm not positive your actions were the cause of death. I've done this myself without any bad results.

My H. triseriatus i rehoused recently just after he molted. He's my pet hole, never new he molted, had to rehouse from mold. I scraped off the surface mold but you could smell it still in there. His legs were still the opaque whiteish color when he crawled out of the burrow and into the new enclosure. So his molt was within hours i'd guess. He's doing fine, eats a lot like my pcam, the monster hiding just under the substrate

I've also had to do rehousing right before molts, and they've all survived.

I think it was just time for that sling, not your actions.

 

[Enn49]

@kormath I do hope you're right. I know I've disturbed them during a moult before and realised then left them alone and they've been ok.

 

[Fuzzball79]

sorry to hear that.

 

[Nicolas C]

Sorry for you, Enn...

 

[Enn49]

sorry to hear that.

Sorry for you, Enn...

Thank you both.