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C. Orientalis Problems

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andrew

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I bought a C. Orientalis a couple of months ago. He has not touched the water since a couple of weeks after i bought him. He also hasnt eaten for about a month. He has no sores or anything. The tank has about 9 inches of water and a piece of imatated cork bark for the land. There are about 6 plants in the water. what should i do?
 
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jesper

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The part about not touching water is normal, its normal for them not to eat too after pet shop experiences. I have had success putting those cases in soil(make sure the soil is free of pesticides) setups with corkbark on top and just a little container with water. I'd suggest that you take a nice juicy nightcrawler, just like Ben said, and chop it up into loads of small pieces and distribute evenly throughout such a setup as I recommended above.

(Message edited by Jesper on November 08, 2004)
 
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mark

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Thats a good idea Jesper. I have found that a lot of the Orientalis I get from pet stores really don't like to go in the water. But else I have found is that if you ask the "worker" to get one from the water, they stay mostly aquatic, but thats just me.
 
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jesper

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Hmm watch out though, cause the ones that are in the water are usually the ones having ulcers in my experience. I have posted this several times, in all pet shop cases I have had the orientalis with ulcers seek water and the healthy ones stay on land. Of course this is only an observation that I have made on severely stressed orientalis(i.e. pet shop orientalis) and is not valid for a healthy population where the orientalis are very aquatic.
 
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mark

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Hmmm, thats wierd, in my area, the ones with ulcers are the ones on the land.
 
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