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RE: shell flipping?

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Posted by: blisterbug at Thu Feb 19 18:13:33 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by blisterbug ]  
   

I have kept young softshells in the past, and I, too have observed this. I believe it is connected with nutrition. Probably due to the skin and muscle growing at a faster rate than the skeleton. The individuals that had the curling shell margins eventualy "flattened out". I am doing two things differently with my present specimen that I have not done in the past: feeding a prepared food (Reptomin) and using a UVB light source. I also vary the diet with dried gammarus shrimp, shrimp pellets and the occasional bit of lean beef or fish. No shell curling so far. Hope this helps.

   

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