it breaks my heart to say this, but Paprika is on his way out.
i just went to the tanks to give everyone fresh veggies and saw him drop from the ceiling (id taken note of his weirdly loose hold on it last night) and just collapse. after barely getting a response from brushing against first his antennae and then his knee, i decided to scoop the poor fellow onto my hand to see if i could feed him to help him regain some strength.
hes on my open palm as i type this on my phone with my free hand, and… its not looking good. ive got a lil piece of carrot (might switch to cucumber cuz its softer) under his mouth and occasionally l’ll see him wiggle an antennae or a pedipalp, but aside from that, hes just totally limp.
poor thing… hes lived a long life- i caught him as a tiny nymph on september 17th of last year, so hes just about a year old now, which tends to be as long as all but a few anomalies are capable of holding on for. it still always hurts to lose a friend though.
