He's growing. He's about two or three inches in diameter now. He lives in a tall waterglass (8 inches tall and 2 1/2" diameter) full of good,peaty soil, with a screen on top. His little world sits in the end of the large tank that I keep conditioned for my Mexican Red-Knee. So he stays around 80F, and each week I use a dropper to wet the top of the water-glass soil. He made a cavern at the bottom, and he absolutely stays there all the time I'm up and around. A few times he's acted abnormally and stayed up, so I filled his tiny water dish and fed a de-legged lobster roach nymph. After that, he would disappear for several weeks again. I see evidence of his nighttime activity because he rearranges the soil on the surface, often burying the water cup (it's a very small water cup, and holds about six drops of water.). AFIK he's busy almost every night.

Well for the last four or five days he's been staying on the surface. I thought he might be needing to molt, but he's done that before, overnight. It worries me that he is staying up for so long. I can't tell whether he went down at night to eat his nymph. He can still move fast, but I don't know about the near future. Does anybody have an idea of why he's staying out all day? Does he need a bigger container? Is this behavior a problem? I sincerely don't want him to die.

Roger

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