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As I posted in another thread, I fear that my G. rosea of of 11 years and around a month is on it's way out, she's been sluggish and in semi-death curl postures. I added humidity my way of dampening the substrate on one end in addition to her water bowl which seemed to help some. but i just noticed that she was sitting in her water bowl, her abdomen in in and I feared that her book lungs might have been submerged. i sort of assumed she was hydrating and got weak resulting in just plopping down.
So I decided to coax her from the bowl (it isn't deep, the abdomen was nowhere near being submerged, just the bottom)She slowly and clumsily crawled out, and has sort of assumed the position again next to the bowl.
Did I make a blunder? I think she may be about finished anyway, but sort of hated the idea of her drowning herself. Or did I perhaps prevent her from saving herself through extreme hydration?
Here she is after coming out of her bowl. Not as curled, but i don't think her posture looks healthy. not in light of her behaviour and appearance lately. But maybe I should have left her where she was, she may have known what she was doing. But again, I was worried she was unable to remove herself.
Addition before posting. She returned to the bowl so I will leave her there, it is apparently where she wants to be.
So I decided to coax her from the bowl (it isn't deep, the abdomen was nowhere near being submerged, just the bottom)She slowly and clumsily crawled out, and has sort of assumed the position again next to the bowl.
Did I make a blunder? I think she may be about finished anyway, but sort of hated the idea of her drowning herself. Or did I perhaps prevent her from saving herself through extreme hydration?
Here she is after coming out of her bowl. Not as curled, but i don't think her posture looks healthy. not in light of her behaviour and appearance lately. But maybe I should have left her where she was, she may have known what she was doing. But again, I was worried she was unable to remove herself.
Addition before posting. She returned to the bowl so I will leave her there, it is apparently where she wants to be.
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