Jeff23
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I think my 2.5 inch Avic. Versicolor is getting close to a molt because she is moving fairly slow even though she is still eating well.
I got home last night to find a weird situation. At first I thought she was entering molt up on the side near the top of her AMAC enclosure (Jamie's Enclosure size 4x4x8 inch size). But she looked like she was defying gravity since there wasn't a lot of web in that area. She was hanging upside down. I was worried that she was going to fall and had decided to tilt her enclosure very slowly. But before I could do anything she started to move back up into the cork bark area. at some point she came to an abrupt halt in the other direction and that is when I realized she had somehow got a piece of sphagnum moss tied around her between the carapace and abdomen. It looked fairly tight and she obviously didn't know how to solve the problem. At some point I started using pointed cutters to expand an air hole and ruined her enclosure (+1 for the deli cup). I finally was able to get pointed cutters in there from the top to cut the material that was wrapped around her. So I got her free and now I hope she is okay. But she was definitely stressed from all the activity.
I have now realized that gluing a section of sphagnum moss on the side of a cork bark can create the scenario that happened to me. So I will make sure there are no glued loops in the future.
Do I wait until she molts and heals or should I coax her into a new enclosure immediately? I currently have a section of tape over the hole (in the top) in addition to an object with some weight that is bigger than the hole. I don't like leaving it that way for long because she could probably fit through it (or get injured trying). She is probably borderline large enough to put in a larger enclosure anyway.
As always thanks for any advice and I am open for constructive criticism.
I got home last night to find a weird situation. At first I thought she was entering molt up on the side near the top of her AMAC enclosure (Jamie's Enclosure size 4x4x8 inch size). But she looked like she was defying gravity since there wasn't a lot of web in that area. She was hanging upside down. I was worried that she was going to fall and had decided to tilt her enclosure very slowly. But before I could do anything she started to move back up into the cork bark area. at some point she came to an abrupt halt in the other direction and that is when I realized she had somehow got a piece of sphagnum moss tied around her between the carapace and abdomen. It looked fairly tight and she obviously didn't know how to solve the problem. At some point I started using pointed cutters to expand an air hole and ruined her enclosure (+1 for the deli cup). I finally was able to get pointed cutters in there from the top to cut the material that was wrapped around her. So I got her free and now I hope she is okay. But she was definitely stressed from all the activity.
I have now realized that gluing a section of sphagnum moss on the side of a cork bark can create the scenario that happened to me. So I will make sure there are no glued loops in the future.
Do I wait until she molts and heals or should I coax her into a new enclosure immediately? I currently have a section of tape over the hole (in the top) in addition to an object with some weight that is bigger than the hole. I don't like leaving it that way for long because she could probably fit through it (or get injured trying). She is probably borderline large enough to put in a larger enclosure anyway.
As always thanks for any advice and I am open for constructive criticism.