Post by Leah on Jun 10, 2006 11:00:44 GMT
My fulica, Marvin doesn't do anything any more. I bought him last summer and he was about 6/7 years old then. He used to be very active and ate anything I put in front of him. He looks very healthy but now he's lost a lot of wieght. He never eats, except maybe a few mouthfulls and even then he will only eat porridge and I usually have to hand feed it to him 
. He only wakes up if I put him in water and then goes straight back in his shell when I take him out agian. If I don't wake him up and feed him myself he'll die but I just don't have the time to spend an hour every day hand feeding a snail. I'm really gutted cause he's my only fulica left. If he goes I only have one little Iredalei, my other 2 died of old age. I don't want him to die too. 
. He only wakes up if I put him in water and then goes straight back in his shell when I take him out agian. If I don't wake him up and feed him myself he'll die but I just don't have the time to spend an hour every day hand feeding a snail. I'm really gutted cause he's my only fulica left. If he goes I only have one little Iredalei, my other 2 died of old age. I don't want him to die too. 
I think it's old age, 6/7 years is pretty old for a fulica.