LordAnon
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I have a wild caught Pennsylvania Grass Spider that I've had in a small critter keeper for a couple months now. It's molted once while I've had it, but if it was the mature molt then it's not a male (no bulbs on palps). Recently, she's made a change in her behavior. Suddenly she's very skittish in her enclosure. While she used to stay in her funnel, hidden somewhere in the upper corner of her enclosure, recently she's started crawling around her web, even spazzing out at times and bolting off of it.
So far my theories are:
1) The web is too dirty. I don't make a habit of cleaning it because I don't know if I should, and there are roach legs and such everywhere. I'm thinking of rehousing her, destroying the web, and putting her back to make a new web.
2) She wants to leave for some reason. I know this just sounds like "I don't know" but I'm thinking she's cramped. Even though she doesn't usually leave her funnel, maybe she wants more room to expand the web (I've seen some large grass spider webs).
I'm fairly certain it's not hunger. She's my best eater and looks fat enough to be gravid (even though at this point I know it's probably not gonna happen). Ideas? Anyone have experience with these spiders?
So far my theories are:
1) The web is too dirty. I don't make a habit of cleaning it because I don't know if I should, and there are roach legs and such everywhere. I'm thinking of rehousing her, destroying the web, and putting her back to make a new web.
2) She wants to leave for some reason. I know this just sounds like "I don't know" but I'm thinking she's cramped. Even though she doesn't usually leave her funnel, maybe she wants more room to expand the web (I've seen some large grass spider webs).
I'm fairly certain it's not hunger. She's my best eater and looks fat enough to be gravid (even though at this point I know it's probably not gonna happen). Ideas? Anyone have experience with these spiders?
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