[MauricesExoticPets]

I've just came into owning a new H. garnotii that is way seroiusly underweight.

Not too much in the way of posts here on this species, I'll see if I can get her up to snuff weight wise and try to get a picture then.

At the moment she seems to be alert and otherwise ok, just very thin.

Maurice Pudlo

[MauricesExoticPets]

Small update, weight is back up to where it should be. In the meantime she produced a pair of eggs that were not viable (I didn't expect they would be).

On a side note, her calcium sacks are excessively large, she came to me this way.

In an effort to regulate her calcium intake I'm cutting her calcium dust with a soy based infant formula powder.

The mixture is currently 4 parts by volume formula to 5 parts calcium carbonate with vitamin d3.

My thoughts are to maintain this supplement method through the first generation of offspring. Adjusting based on how the offspring react not so much on her because she seems to the point where no reduction in calcium sack size seems to be occurring.

I've used a similar method in the past with fruit based powders to control excessive calcium uptake, the switch to soy based infant formula is an attempt to add some improved nutritional value to the non calcium portion of the dusting.

It seems she is once again developing eggs, so I'm hoping her improved condition will result in a viable pair of eggs this time around.

Time will tell if this effort will produce good results or not, I believe it will. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Maurice Pudlo