My "E" wont change out of his painted shell!

[CallaLily]

Favre, the PP that started this for me in 2008, was wearing a Babylonia shell painted like a football. It didn't take long at all for the paint to start peeling and it pretty much slipped off in one piece very easily (while he was still in it).

Some painted shells don't clean up as easy.

[Angizme]

Es usually dont change as much as PPs do. Es will wear an undersized shell forever. Just make sure they have plenty of choices and they will eventually change.

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[Crabber85]

I've got three E's that have been with me since 2010 they were dime sized when I bought them and now they are just a little larger than golf ball and they have been in the same shells for three years now and I have dumped more than thirty dollars into a new wardrobe for each of them and yet they still refuse to switch.lol

E's are definitely notorious for being stubborn when it comes to switching shells they will hang on to shells that are so small that they can't even fully retract into them anymore just because they have a propensity to wear lighter shells which are easier for them to carry which often results in them hanging on to shells for way too long.

As for the color changes again I can attest to this as all three of mine started off as blue-green and within a year or so they became tan to russet colored, their coloration as juveniles tends to be blue-green and as they get older it shifts over to the orange/russet range and I know that diet doesn't have much of an impact on stopping this as I have been feeding pure spirulnia powder which is an excellent pigment booster and is supposed to reinforce the blue/green pigments and even with feeding this three times a week their coloration still changed.

I have also been feeding beta carotene on a regular basis as its another great pigment booster/enhancer and that seemed to have little impact on stopping their color change from juvenile to adult.