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About as crowded as you sitting in the cab of your truck with me in the passenger seat. It's a transport container.That's an awfully crowded space, Will.
Wow, now that's starting out big. Did you get them from one person selling their group of from several different people? I'm assuming from one person seeing they are all together. Good luck.
Okay. Well when some neonates appear, maybe by then Trump will withdraw the US from CITES and I can have an easier time of it. LOL.Interesting will. I think you should send me some of them so that you haven't got so much work
I thought we would have seen one of these cleaned up by now Will. I think this species has one the best looking Carapaces of all.
Yeah, its ends up being a good thing for a few reasons.The holes that are drilled in their shells? Can you tell me more about that?
Yeah, I find them all to be K. erosa. All are eating much and showing some weight gain. I have also had time enough to watch them for several periods of ten to 20 minutes. These will very carefully selectively eat mushrooms out of a highly mixed ration of squashes, sweet potato, banana, papaya, cucumber, etc. The only time they ate without an mushroom preference is when I've used cat food mixed in with the total mix of everything else. I bought a bag of dehydrated shiitake mushrooms (good economy) and they will still pick out the re-hydrated bits of mushroom. At one time I thought papaya was the all time favorite, no, it's mushrooms.Will. Have clarified that these are all Erosa yet?
Your observations are virtually exactly what I'm seeing with the homeana.Yeah, I find them all to be K. erosa. All are eating much and showing some weight gain. I have also had time enough to watch them for several periods of ten to 20 minutes. These will very carefully selectively eat mushrooms out of a highly mixed ration of squashes, sweet potato, banana, papaya, cucumber, etc. The only time they ate without an mushroom preference is when I've used cat food mixed in with the total mix of everything else. I bought a bag of dehydrated shiitake mushrooms (good economy) and they will still pick out the re-hydrated bits of mushroom. At one time I thought papaya was the all time favorite, no, it's mushrooms.
I forgot how 'high stepping' they are as they walk around. They do not shimmy along. It looks like some kind of SciFi armored vehicle - they stand up high on their legs and feet and walk very robot like.
There enclosure stays in the 90% plus RH range and temps go from mid 70'sF to low 90'sF. They prefer the lower range in terms of feeding as a temp response. I have one 24 watt T5 HO tube in their enclosure to one end and they don't seem to seek it out, but don't shy away from the light either.
Enclosure foot print is 2 x 4 foot with the lighted end having a water dish that is 16 x 23 inches. I put food in on the cypress mulch substrate with really heavy duty paper plates. So they eat about a cup of food (loosely packed) a day each. I used micro-waved eggs a few times as well as cat food. They ate it, but still not like the desire for mushrooms.
I gave them all heads of romaine cut length wise for a day away overabundance. Two groups ate it all, two groups did not touch it at all. Whole yellow zucchini was devoured. They ate whole small Bok Choy as well. All the forest species seem to really like Bok Choy.
Do you plan to send in fecals or cloacal swabs for testing?