Arboreals afraid of food?

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Recent rehouse maybe part of it.
P Miranda,s & h Mac refuse superworms and dubia. No one near me sells adult crickets.
They like are afraid of there food. Skittish because? New house?

 

[KezyGLA]

How recent was the rehouse? They maybe need time to settle

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

How recent was the rehouse? They maybe need time to settle

Should I remove food and give them a week.? I’ll try this

 

[viper69]

Should I remove food and give them a week.? I’ll try this

Not necessarily. You didn’t provide us the rehouse info

 

[Lyrognathus]

Sometimes they'll take prekilled food. You should try that and leave a food item in over night.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Sometimes they'll take prekilled food. You should try that and leave a food item in over night.

K h Mac seems to have ate one pre killed , the second it wouldn’t.

 

[Matei Georgian]

I have the same problem 2 days ago I bought 2 lampropelma sp borneo black slings , I set up their habitat and next dat I tryed to feed them one ate but the other refused food , it cound t even climbed and it is smaller that the first sling but they come from the same female . This morning I saw that it was hiding and I tryed to feed it but it avoid the mealworm . What can I do? They are my first old world tarantulas .

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

H Mac still won’t eat had a dead dubia in there for a day or two already attracting fruit fly’s .
I tried superworms and h Mac runs away. Even my Lp refused to eat supers, it’s already too fat .
2 weeks or so since rehouse, lp is fat n happy h Mac won’t eat.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

How do I get h Mac to eat?

 

[lostbrane]

It did eat the one right? Maybe try a cricket if at all possible, otherwise I'm thinking premolt or maybe the whole enclosure isn't set up right...

 

[darkness975]

Why is it just sitting on the substrate in a stress curl in a corner? Has it had enough time to construct a burrow yet?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Why is it just sitting on the substrate in a stress curl in a corner? Has it had enough time to construct a burrow yet?

It’s webbed all over just wont eat pre killed or live dubia, or superworms.
No stress curl or anything, it molted last month. I could try giving it more bark to crawl on .

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

It did eat the one right? Maybe try a cricket if at all possible, otherwise I'm thinking premolt or maybe the whole enclosure isn't set up right...

It molted last month, I gave it a bigger container.

 

[darkness975]

It molted last month, I gave it a bigger container.

What does the whole enclosure look like?

Perhaps there is something amiss?

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

What does the whole enclosure look like?

Perhaps there is something amiss?

not much vertical climbing space but this one usually webs a lot more . No tubeweb yet

H maculata

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New container

H maculata

• Ultum4Spiderz
• Aug 4, 2018
• heteroscodra heteroscodra maculata maculata togo starburst tarantula

it’s in album upload too, ran out of bark the peice broke so I laid it on floor substrate.

 

[darkness975]

They are arboreal. Perhaps there is not enough vertical space for it. Younger specimens may burrow but an arboreal species is looking for something specific regarding their environment once they reach a certain size.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

They are arboreal. Perhaps there is not enough vertical space for it. Younger specimens may burrow but an arboreal species is looking for something specific regarding their environment once they reach a certain size.

Should I put it in a much Larger cage ? I’ll try and look for something.
Maybe this will work for something smaller or might be too odd shaped for a juvie terrestrials.

 

[AngelDeVille]

Chew the food and feed it like a baby bird.

 

[Venom1080]

Yes. Aim for a actual arboreal set up. With a hide. Don't rely on the animal to make its own.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Yes. Aim for a actual arboreal set up. With a hide. Don't rely on the animal to make its own.

What’s alternative to cork bark? Won’t be able to buy any til I get a job?