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Heheheh, funny story... It escaped again. Less than a week after we put it back in its enclosure (at this point the Chalcodes hasn't taken any food yet, but its abdomen is plump with water), my little brother wanted to look at it one midnight. The next morning shook me awake to tell me that the...

I think first thing you should do is get a proper arboreal enclosure with cross ventilation, a little substrate and a nice, vertical corkbark hide. I'm not sure what size enclosure you should get, especially since I don't know the exact size of your tarantula, but I'm sure other people on here...

About July of last year, in a dumb accident the enclosure of my juvenile 3" Aphonopelma Chalcodes was left wide open for a while and it escaped. Then about 2 days ago at 6:30 am, my mom woke up me and my brother because she found a tarantula on its back, curled up downstairs on the floor. It was...

Sorry, I already buried it. If it helps I don't think my little ICU would've helped much if it was still alive. I'll use this for future reference though. I know it's dead because it had a deformed, upturned abdomen and the carapace was discolored brown with what looked like visible veins. I'm...

completely unresponsive, a little discolored, i might call it here. Well dang, I guess that's that then. It was a good year with it.

Rn it's in a lil makeshift ICU, i'm trying to drip it sugar water every couple minutes.

It hasn't moved much since the first day. I'll try what moricollins said though.

I have no idea what to do. It's area to molt is vertical and cramped and it's legs are tucked under itself. I sprayes a bit of water to try and rehydrate it and I might try turning the enclosure on it's side to help it molt.

It's a little late to give it more water, I'm already on a plane and won't be back in ten days. Thank you for confirming that's it's not an MM though, I'm really relieved. Can you also confirm whether or not it's a male? Judging with my limited T knowledge, by my T's build, and what everyone...

I replaced the substrate, added sphagnum peat moss to the substrate mixture cause no one is gonna be refilling my T's water dish while I'm gone so I'll leave it on the moister side in the hopes that the new mixture maintains some of the humidity (don't worry there's plenty of cross ventilation...

How would I go about changing the substrate considering the enclosure? Do I just rip out the corkbark that my T has settled in? It's been glued to the wall of the enclosure, so that's not gonna be easy. I also don't want to stress the T at all if possible and I don't know if I should let it...

I'm gonna be gone for 10 days starting Saturday, so I tomorrow I'll manage to fit some time in to buy some crickets. I'll see if my T goes for it and if it does I'll assume it's not in premolt and just refusing dubias, thus leading me to clean it's substrate someother time. If it doesn't I'll...

I doubt it's mealworms, considering the number and size of them, as I don't know what they'd eat to get that big. I also haven't really fed it many mealworms, mostly crickets and always try to remove food it refuses. I'm hoping it's not a MM, as want to have this T for a while. When I bought...

I'll work on getting a picture of it's pedipalps, but while I'm here I want to report a somewhat related problem instead of making a new thread. I found these buggers in the same enclosure. I have no idea what they are and I only realized they were there after noticing the substrate shift...

I thought SADS implies that the tarantula has been over misted and choked to death in water vapor.

My A Avic hasn't eaten in a month and this position it's in is worrying. I know the first thing at least a couple of you guys think is, "Oh boy, here's another amateur keeper who's been overmisting and is gonna unknowingly kill it's and it'll be written off as another case of SADS". And while I...

After reading through all these replies, I feel more intimidated than I felt before starting this thread. Yet my intensified feeling of intimidation has only created more respect and a sense of duty to properly care for this tarantula that I have brought under my care. I am now fully aware of...

In the hospital? I thought the most these T's could do to hurt an adult is intense muscle pains, swelling, and cramps for a couple weeks. That's not exactly a bee sting, I know, but I didn't think it could send anyone to the hospital.

I think rehousing shouldn't be too bad. It's only a sling right now, so I have time to get used to it's speed and aggressiveness. Can you elaborate on the maitenance part though? I thought it'll be like most other T's: feed with a schedule and feeder insect size that's appropriate for it's size...

1. I didn't do research on this species until after I got it. I know, I'm stupid. But I've heard of people getting Pokies for their first T, so I'm sure I'm not the first keeper in this position. 2. I'll keep your tips in mind. I know it seems like I'm gonna get this T killed, but with...