4cm Curly Hair help please

[Vanisher]

I know, i have seen it! I remember just now!

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Only species I've heard of closing itself off and starving/dying of thirst as a result are young P. muticus. Sometimes those things seal themselves off and come topside for nothing.

I think there was clay mixed in with the substrate that sealed the P. muticus juvies in, I think it was primarily happening in Europe. Or else there was something wrong with the sling and it died of something that had nothing to do with the burrow collapsing.

I'm fairly sure it was established that the problem some people were having with P. muticus was due to keeping them bone dry, the first thing a dehydrated tarantula tends to do is refuse to eat which then sends it into a downward spiral.

In the wild (yeah yeah, I know but this one's actually a valid point) they dig stupidly deep burrows to escape the heat and find moisture (probably to find food as well).

Anyway, I never let the bottom layers of sub fully dry out for mine and it's never sealed its burrows (even when in pre-moult), it actually comes out pretty regularly as well.

 

[Vanisher]

I am thinking something like that too!

 

[Arachnophoric]

I'm fairly sure it was established that the problem some people were having with P. muticus was due to keeping them bone dry, the first thing a dehydrated tarantula tends to do is refuse to eat which then sends it into a downward spiral.

In the wild (yeah yeah, I know but this one's actually a valid point) they dig stupidly deep burrows to escape the heat and find moisture (probably to food as well).

Anyway, I never let the bottom layers of sub fully dry out for mine and it's never sealed its burrows (even when in pre-moult), it actually comes out pretty regularly as well.

Must not have been here to read the conclusion of that thread. Sound logic, though i'd still personally err on the side of caution.

I keep mine with the lower layers moist too. Had my female since 2017, I think since then i can count the number of times i've seen her out of her burrow on one hand and she regularly webs the entrance shut, even when I know she's not in premolt.

Edit - suppose I should add that my male has been the polar opposite of my female, but i'm also pretty sure he's just special. Poor lad doesn't know how to fossorial.

 

[Chasingcritters]

It has never ever in historic or even prehistoric history happend that a tarantula has closed off its burrow to commit suicide! If this have happend it must have been an extreemly, EXTREEMLY depressed one!? Dont worry, the spider knows what hes doing!