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WRT starvation: I would assume that a tarantulas abdomen gets smaller if it doesn't eat for a long time because their body will use the fat reserves in the abdomen to survive even if it's impacted. Doing another general status update: Fri July 23rd: had another local tarantula keeper come and...

It is indeed a temporary monitoring enclosure, as I believe I stated elsewhere in my post the main enclosure is a 5.5 glass tank with substrate, cork bark, and a burrow that Oreo has buried. I can post photos later, I'm currently at work. I also have never handled my tarantulas since I do...

Agreed on more photos, but my tarantulas have only ever molted within the safety of their burrows (though they didn't close off entrances usually). It's not totally uncommon for them to hide like that when they're about to molt.

Managed to get a few photos and am finally getting around to uploading them now. Taken 7/17/2021. Photo 1: actual photo of the plug through a small window in their containment box. Small white dot between the spinnerets. Photo 2: hard-to-view photo of the abdomen distortion. Seems more swollen...

Hello folks, If you're in The Tarantula Collective's FB group, you've probably seen a recent post about an impacted A. seemanni on there. This is my tarantula, and I figure that I would cross-post developments onto this forum as to document what outcomes I get with this tarantula. Any advice...

Aphonopelma tarantulas fall within the classification of "new world tarantulas", some other groups that are included are Avicularia, Brachypelma, and Theraphosa.

Looks like Poecilotheria fasciata, P. ornata, P. smithi, P. subfusca, and P. vittata are now considered part of the ESA. http://usark.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ESA-2018-Sri-Lanka-Tarantulas-final-rule-1.pdf

:cookie: I'm so sorry for your loss. :(

Good luck! I hope she pulls through!

Definitely keep us updated, I'd like to see what happens with this one!

I mean, I have to wonder if the cost was partially from shipping nearly across the continental US overnight...

From FedEx and from UPS. Although FedEx was closer to $100.

So update for everyone: I attempted to do the shipping thing, but it cost $125 and I instead found someone local to my school area to take care of my tarantula. So I'm somewhat tarantula-less until I go back to school (hopefully in a semester?).

I'm actually from the Salt Lake region, haha! So I'll be in that area again. And hmm. I'm probably gonna end up shipping her to Utah then (unless I can find someone I trust here in NY to take care of her, she's a very important animal to me and I am hesitant to leave her with people who don't...

Hello all, So it looks like I'll be making an (emergency) move across the country and travelling by plane. Is it possible to move my tarantula with me, by plane, to where I will end up being? And if so, is there any special procedure I need to go through with the airline? Alternatively, would...

I did end up using a tupperware for a temporary house. She's still sitting on the lid in her refurbished enclosure, lol.

As a geology student with biology background, you're right. Films are almost always biological, and mineralization requires a grounding surface usually.

Thanks for all the input, y'all! I'm probably going to put new substrate in, which is my main goal at this point (since when she is active she loves to climb around a LOT and I don't want her getting hurt). I'll be sure to replace the mesh with plexiglass+holes.

Alright, so probably just replace the substrate/clean this enclosure out? I think this is the first time I've genuinely had to deal with mold, and I'm thinking I might stick her waterdish in the oven for a bit. Also, should I feed her before or after the rehouse?

Howdy folks, I am in need of some advice. Pictures of things along the way. I was checking out my A. chalcodes' enclosure a few minutes ago and saw that her water dish had developed a white film on the water and along the actual plastic of the dish itself, and I realized it was mold. I'm now...