Just wanted to say great set up, Loving the big long cork bark reaching the top. Plus the cork bark background. Gives them more and different types of surface. Seeing one on a cork back background spread out in their strange anatomy glory... chief's kiss.
With dehydrated specimens, the first concern should be hydration. Saturate the substrate- not moist! Wet. Mist everything except the whipspider super hard. Great if you can get it "foggy" in there or the glass gets saturation on them. Keep those conditions for a week or two at the very least...
That's great news! :) Don't worry about going wetter/or "too wet" if you want- it's especially good for new specimens. Dehydration is very typical and going "nuts" with the flooding hard misting everything and keeping it that high for at least a week will help them recover fully even quicker...
Welcome! I too was very confused during my first months of keeping medius. Diadema were my first, they did very well with 'moist' so I tried to keep the medius same as these. I didn't know how to read their 'signals' other than they were inactive, not eating much, and yes they were low down or...
They need "swampy" to thrive. This has been a particular challenge with new keepers of this species. It's hard to switch over to conditions that would be bad for the average pet. But trust, they thrive in sky high humidity. "Daily misting" doesn't do anything for them, except annoy/stress(they...
Best way is to check the abdomen. It should have the amblypygi version of plump. If possible, view it without disturbing the enclosure before feeding. With experience it generally gets easy to tell if one might or might not eat that week.
Medius aren't the most regular eaters, sometimes it's...
Nice captures! The part where they hang just by the abdomen tip pull out the whips(fifth picture) or just hang there pumping their legs is the most nerve wracking part for me. Before they reach out with their legs. Often I just have to walk way because it's.. too much... lol
I wonder how do...
Super nice you've been reading and making proper changes for the medius! :)
Slightly disagree about no puddles above- IME no problem with presence of puddles. Sometimes I'll make a mistake and pour in so much water it's more like a mini flood in there. No issues with that either... To my...
Yeah that's a good tip. I do occasionally mist somewhere close to the whipsider and then watch. If it immediately starts drinking, I take that to assume the humidity wasn't enough. Either wet down the substrate more and keep it around that level if it's a species known to love high humidity. Or...
From what I can see, he looks ok, abdomen wise.
IME- large juvenile and adult whitei don't eat often. Adult males less than females. It seems if fed regularly, smaller prey is best. They can handle large prey no problem when hungry, however they might not be interested in eating again for...
Don't gutload. At most, simply feed the crickets generic good stuff such as fish food or well rinsed veggies. If I don't feed them off immediately they get a light sprinkling of decent quality fish food and carrot slices. Nothing fancy at all. Trying to powder or gut load as for reptiles might...
So glad someone brought this up. Oh yes, they are underestimated too often. Discovered by accident that even early instar P. marginemaculatus are capable of taking on crickets bigger than themselves! As in live crickets. Wasn't deliberate, they were part of a communal colony and was trying to...
Fruit flies are useless and harmful if fed as sole/main diet. Whiplings exculsively fed fruit flies fail to molt. At the size yours is at, small crickets or roaches will be so much better.
NOT an expert by any means.. been talking with experienced persons after a series of failed attempts(explained below). What I learned so far:
Water needs low PPM to stimulate hatching. PH needs to be 7-8ish for long term survival(at least past the first few days). GH/KH is apparently also...
Happy to help. It's not difficult to house them individually while small. Regular tall deli cups would work for a good while, if they're selling early instars. The gallon size food storage containers- the cheap tall narrow ones with the screw lids at Walmart etc or if you can find plastic...
As someone who has bred D. medius.... NO do not keep the babies communally! This species has cannibalistic tendencies as soon as they leave the mother. It's mainly when the clutch mates start to molt when the cannibalism really shows up. They molt generally in snyc but there's always a few...
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