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venturing into Ts
I recently started getting into tarantulas also and arachnoboards has been the ultimate learning tool. You can look up "bite reports" which are people actually telling the stories of the symptoms and affects of whatever species they where handling when they got bit. It gives you a good indication of what spiders to stay away from when your a newb. Because lack of knowledge and experience pertaining to an aggressive species is eventually going to end in a bite which isn't the end of the world but you might want to know what your in for since your getting some of the quicker moving arboreal species. I was reading some of the reports and was absolutely jaw dropped at the brief agony and illness that comes with some of these bites. Might be worth looking into.
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venturing into Ts
Sweet. Congrats on the molt.
They will keep rearranging until they are happy with it. I have a few that love moving or dumping their bowls over.
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so one of my p.regalis sling, the smaller one, is having trouble climbing the glass. I can see it frantically trying to glass the glass container its in but its not grabbing on to the glass. should i be concern?
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venturing into Ts
Is that the one who molted?
I have read that when they get close to a molt, they can have trouble climbing.
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no its not this one havn't molt in my possession yet. interestingly sometimes i see he/she has surprise stick on to the glass and is just chilling there, sometimes i would catch it frantically trying to hold on to the glass. Is there any other sign to molting besides having trouble climbing?
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venturing into Ts
It will go off feed and the abdomen will darken.
I haven't worked with any pokies but I'm guessing it holds true with them as well.
Maybe the substrate is too dry and dusty? What are you using? Is it damp?
The only other thing I can thing of is it being dehydrated.
Do you have a bottle cap with water in there?
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my substrate is damp and he/she has made a thin layer of webbing on the substrate already. It in a glass vial way too small to put any kind of water bowl in it, i though it should be ok absorbing moisture from it substrate and food when its so small? And i feed it few days ago and it took the cricket, don't see any shrinkage on its abdomen. As i say this i see it chilling on the glass but as i pick it up it panic and slip off and now can't grab a hold again, i wonder if the glass is too smooth on some part of the vial?
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venturing into Ts
Hmm. I'm not sure. Maybe there is something on the glass..?
I'll flip through my Tarantula Keepers Guide (highly recommend this book,
Tons of info and you can find it for cheap) and see if I can find anything.
I would still guess its time for a molt. If I find anything, ill let you know.
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