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I have had a bad week.
i finally setup my two H.lividums, a adult female and a sub adult female, in two identical tall square tanks custom made for digging.
all was fine for a week, then i must have left one of the lids not secured.
so its 3am and i go to the toilet, awoken by my cat making noise like he is playing, which he always does.
anyway i come out the bathroom and in front of me is one of my cobolts, i panick but tell james to not panick and carfully without startling it to run off under my bed and be forever lost,
so i get it caught again but then iu notice one of its legs is off, another broken and twisted, which i put down to the cat, but i also saw a massive ruopture in her abdomen.
looking at her tank i think she fell and hurt herself then the cat got at her, luckily the cat didnt get bitten but alas the spider died.
i put her in a container in the dark over night, and in the morning she was dead so i put her in the freezer and that was that. i was so annoyed at myself.
then of course there was the H.minax that died earlier and the one we lost for a month aaages ago and the week before my 22 year old cat died, which wasnt plesent.
and today my rat died.
so yeah its been a real hard month, but the H.lividum really upset me as its mostly my fault.
anyway my last remaining H.lividum is in her tank with 8 inches of soil but she isnt digging, its a peat and soil mix.
any suggestions before i loose another tarantula?
thanks all
bloodred
i finally setup my two H.lividums, a adult female and a sub adult female, in two identical tall square tanks custom made for digging.
all was fine for a week, then i must have left one of the lids not secured.
so its 3am and i go to the toilet, awoken by my cat making noise like he is playing, which he always does.
anyway i come out the bathroom and in front of me is one of my cobolts, i panick but tell james to not panick and carfully without startling it to run off under my bed and be forever lost,
so i get it caught again but then iu notice one of its legs is off, another broken and twisted, which i put down to the cat, but i also saw a massive ruopture in her abdomen.
looking at her tank i think she fell and hurt herself then the cat got at her, luckily the cat didnt get bitten but alas the spider died.
i put her in a container in the dark over night, and in the morning she was dead
so i put her in the freezer and that was that. i was so annoyed at myself.then of course there was the H.minax that died earlier and the one we lost for a month aaages ago and the week before my 22 year old cat died, which wasnt plesent.
and today my rat died.
so yeah its been a real hard month, but the H.lividum really upset me as its mostly my fault.
anyway my last remaining H.lividum is in her tank with 8 inches of soil but she isnt digging, its a peat and soil mix.
any suggestions before i loose another tarantula?
thanks all
bloodred
