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    Spider help.

    Hey all I got a 2012 female spider 2 weeks ago at an expo.

    I was in my snake room when I noticed she was wrapped around her water dish with her head sideways almost upside down. She looked dead. I was freaked I gently pulled out the tub and put it down and once I did that she started to spider wobble HUGE. Like totally flipping and twisting her head. First time she has wobbled since I got her.

    She has not eaten yet. Shes sitting at 50 grams. Temps are 90 F on basking side and 80 F on the cool side. Humidity is at 60%. She has hides on both sides with a paper towel roll in the middle (just a thing I do for very young balls to give them a really tight spot)


    So yah,

    What can cause her to wrap around her dish?

    Is it normal for her head to be sideways/upside down when she does it? (As I am typing this she moved to behind her hide wrapped up with her head sideways on top of her body)

    I think the reason she wobbled and twisted her head so much was because I scared her? I dont know I did it as gently as possible and I have held her before and cleaned her tub with out her showing any signs of wobble.
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    Re: Spider help.

    i would say laying with her head sideways is normal i have seen it happen before but can't explain why. as for the bowl wrapping sounds pretty normal i have seen my snakes do that alot.




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    Re: Spider help.

    It all sounds like a normal spider with a bad wobble. *shrug* Nothing wrong

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    Sounds pretty normal. One reason im kinda leery of the morph. But it doesnt sound like anything out of the ordinary.
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    Re: Spider help.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike41793 View Post
    Sounds pretty normal. One reason im kinda leery of the morph. But it doesnt sound like anything out of the ordinary.
    get yourself a spider they're not so bad.




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    *wobble wobble*


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    Sounds spider-ish to me. Maybe her wobble is more to the noticable end.

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    Re: Spider help.

    Typical spider behavior! It freaked me out too the first time I saw our spider do it.

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    Re: Spider help.

    Quote Originally Posted by JaGv View Post
    get yourself a spider they're not so bad.
    Im waiting for doolittle to make me a stinga bee...
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