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    I'll pick up some baby sticks while I am at the store. And I will be moving her to her new tank tomorrow. I'll offer a lot more hides too to try and give more cover so she doesn't freak out as much. Thank you so much for your patience and good advice for me by the way

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    Can you post pictures of her arm?

    She will definitely grow accustomed to the extra space in the 10 gallon but I do not recommend a tank mate for a 10 gallon - it is too small to house two ACF.
    Make her environment "softer" with sand substrate and live plants. Even moss balls are fine. She does not need "hides" as she cannot see to find them anyways - cover is to disperse light/shadows as they have no eyelids but this is not needed in her case.
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    If you use sand I would recommend something like Carib Sea's Moonlight sand (extremely fine, soft sand) and not a sharp abrasive sand, like Carib Sea's Tahitian Moon.

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    I'll post a picture of her if I can get a good one on my phone tomorrow. She just holds it weird at the wrist. She still has mobility in it, she just doesn't sprawl her fingers wide, nor uses it in feeding. As for the tank I finished it this afternoon. A ten gallon really well planted tank with anubias, anacharsis, amazon sword, and a climbing sword (the one that looks like an underwater spider plant). I used very large smooth round river stones for substrate because I use an internal filter and the sand jams its impeller constantly in a 10 gallon. I did put a small flower pot in there for a hide if she wishes to use it, but she doesn't seem too interested. I'm not gonna get her a tank mate, she just has her big apple snail friend...who immediately savaged a baby climbing sword upon entering the tank. She seems to be adjusting well, fully taking advantage of the soft plants to lay in.

    One concern I have now though is she doesn't take much interest in the reptomin pellets. She will greedily eat bloodworms, but they are not as nutritionally valuable. I tried feeding her reptomin today, (granted she just moved into the new tank) but she wasn't remotely interested in the reptomin. The snail was happy to clean up though. How should I get her to feed on them? I especially want her to have the extra calcium they add. Also as far as ghost shrimp in their diet how nutritional are they?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pippin View Post
    she doesn't take much interest in the reptomin pellets. She will greedily eat bloodworms,
    I had the same problem before. It took a week to make my ACFs eat Reptomin.

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