SpiritScale
Arachnopeon
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- Aug 31, 2013
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So I'm stumped as I've lost two of these little 1/6 inch guys.
I've raised a dozen slings up from about 1/4 inch across a couple different genus (heck even my little A. versicolor is doing a-ok) with the same standard routine (pill bottle with one or a few holes poked in the lid, damp cocofibre substrate, weekly feeding of either teeny pins or pre-killed prey or pieces, removing any leftovers the day after feeding day and gentle light sparse misting once a week) and all are thriving and have grown.
Yet these little guys have died on me. The first sling I don't know what happened, the second appeared to have gotten stuck in their molt. From what I understood the little guys aren't a moisture-loving species and you run the risk of drowning the poor little guys if you moisten the substrate, so the substrate was drier than usual, but I don't think it was bone dry. That'd be the only thing that I can think of. But as I said it is harder to keep the substrate as moist as needed without drowning the little guys.
Thoughts/info?
I've raised a dozen slings up from about 1/4 inch across a couple different genus (heck even my little A. versicolor is doing a-ok) with the same standard routine (pill bottle with one or a few holes poked in the lid, damp cocofibre substrate, weekly feeding of either teeny pins or pre-killed prey or pieces, removing any leftovers the day after feeding day and gentle light sparse misting once a week) and all are thriving and have grown.
Yet these little guys have died on me. The first sling I don't know what happened, the second appeared to have gotten stuck in their molt. From what I understood the little guys aren't a moisture-loving species and you run the risk of drowning the poor little guys if you moisten the substrate, so the substrate was drier than usual, but I don't think it was bone dry. That'd be the only thing that I can think of. But as I said it is harder to keep the substrate as moist as needed without drowning the little guys.
Thoughts/info?