Sealing Self Off?

[Erebus]

My juvie P. irminia has sealed its self off in its little den. What could it be doing? I'm pretty sure its not going to molt. It had molted the day I got it, which was last week.

 

[MarkmD]

It probably wants left alone.

 

[LuiziBee]

It's no problem. I have two tarantulas that will seal themselves off for three months at a time or longer and not molt. They just want to be left alone. They'll come out when their ready.

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[DannyH]

Tarantulas do that all the time. Be happy, it means that it is comfortable enough in its new enclosure that it made a "house".

 

[Erebus]

Thanks everyone! It removed the blockade from the entrance to its den around half an hour ago and has been doing renovations around the whole den lately.

 

[SuzukiSwift]

You're lucky yours is out so often, after I got mine it sealed itself in it's burrow and all I ever saw was it's toes for a whole year He spends a lot of time outside now he's larger though. If a T ever seals them self in that is the classic 'don't bother me' sign, and the correct course of action is don't bother them and don't worry =)

 

[Erebus]

Mine hasn't been out as much lately. I'm pretty sure he was out a lot because he was doing some building inside his den. I got to see him throw some dirt that he removed from inside the den.

 

[Poec54]

Actually, when they seal themselves in like that, they want to make some personal phone calls. It's considered bad manners to barge in, in the middle of it. Don't be a snoop. They're doing what their instinct tells them to, and they'll come out and be sociable when they're up to entertaining.