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Normally I am not too concerned with an invert refusing food for extended periods. It happens pretty regularly. But this one has me a bit stumped.
I used to have two Pandinus imperators in this particular tank. One of them only ate once in all the time I had it and it died a couple months back. It had not eaten in over a year. It was a Petco rescue so I can only imagine what happened to it before I acquired it. The one that lived with it is still with me. This one never had an issue eating until the last 3 months or so. When it comes to food, it takes it, gnaws on it for a while which basically mangles the prey item and permanently disables it, and ultimately drops the prey and doesn't finish it. Other inverts that refuse food generally will not even bother trying to chase prey items if fasting. Anyone else experience this? Maybe it's just instinct to go after prey even if its not hungry? I attached an image in case anything seems blatantly physically wrong that I might have missed. I feed crickets and no I cannot try roaches because the boss doesn't want roaches in the house.
Thanks in advance for replies!
I used to have two Pandinus imperators in this particular tank. One of them only ate once in all the time I had it and it died a couple months back. It had not eaten in over a year. It was a Petco rescue so I can only imagine what happened to it before I acquired it. The one that lived with it is still with me. This one never had an issue eating until the last 3 months or so. When it comes to food, it takes it, gnaws on it for a while which basically mangles the prey item and permanently disables it, and ultimately drops the prey and doesn't finish it. Other inverts that refuse food generally will not even bother trying to chase prey items if fasting. Anyone else experience this? Maybe it's just instinct to go after prey even if its not hungry? I attached an image in case anything seems blatantly physically wrong that I might have missed. I feed crickets and no I cannot try roaches because the boss doesn't want roaches in the house.
Thanks in advance for replies!