As a heads up, since you just took the little one home, it may be pretty stressed. Spiders can have a tendency to 'wobble'. The severity depends on the snake and stress levels definitely help to bring it out. It's kind of like an inner ear disorder in people.
My spider only wobbles when she gets stressed out with tub cleanings. She's highly defensive so she starts striking at everything, then gets herself confused if I don't keep her covered over and balled up.
The wobble is usually just some confusion with ups and downs when being held. Some extreme cases will corkscrew a bit. Usually it just makes feeding time a little more of a challenge the first couple times until they destress tho.
Have fun with your new noodle and let us know if you have more questions!
Re: Found this little one at Petco and couldn't leave it behind
Originally Posted by Armiyana
Yup! It's a spider.
As a heads up, since you just took the little one home, it may be pretty stressed. Spiders can have a tendency to 'wobble'. The severity depends on the snake and stress levels definitely help to bring it out. It's kind of like an inner ear disorder in people.
My spider only wobbles when she gets stressed out with tub cleanings. She's highly defensive so she starts striking at everything, then gets herself confused if I don't keep her covered over and balled up.
The wobble is usually just some confusion with ups and downs when being held. Some extreme cases will corkscrew a bit. Usually it just makes feeding time a little more of a challenge the first couple times until they destress tho.
Have fun with your new noodle and let us know if you have more questions!
Thanks! I did read a bit about the wobble and all and have been watching and havent seen any signs yet. And they couldnt tell me the date of last feeding so i am going to offer some later and see how it goes. But did handle theblittle one before placing in tank and seemed fine. No aggressision or signs of wobble