Blunted Fangs - Can I feed Raw Egg?

[Formerphobe]

Or put it down before it starves to death, there might be a chance it has enough stored energy for it to molt but it's a waiting game at that point.

I think that would be premature at this point. Some spiders will go an entire molt cycle without eating. As long as it doesn't dehydrate, it makes more sense to wait it out. Keep offering prey periodically and see what happens.

 

[awiec]

I think that would be premature at this point. Some spiders will go an entire molt cycle without eating. As long as it doesn't dehydrate, it makes more sense to wait it out. Keep offering prey periodically and see what happens.

I wasn't suggesting to do it now but in the event that the spider starts to go downhill, putting it out of its misery is the most humane option.

 

[dementedlullaby]

Keep offering mashed prey. The spider shouldn't need fangs to eat it. If it doesn't eat the mashed cricket/whatever prey item there's either another problem or it just doesn't feel like eating yet. I've heard that sometimes a tarantula will molt more quickly if it has an injury. Perhaps this will also be the case.

Also lolwut grapes? This needs further explanation or links.

 

[awiec]

Keep offering mashed prey. The spider shouldn't need fangs to eat it. If it doesn't eat the mashed cricket/whatever prey item there's either another problem or it just doesn't feel like eating yet. I've heard that sometimes a tarantula will molt more quickly if it has an injury. Perhaps this will also be the case.

Also lolwut grapes? This needs further explanation or links.

Someone, somewhere posted something about their tarantula "eating" a grape. Now people seem to think that it's a good source of nutrition. They don't eat grapes, they eat things that eat grapes cause it's transformed into a form that they can process :/

 

[peterUK]

A) I waited more than a week.

A week is absolutely NO time at all, start to think about worrying in 4-5 months time by which time it would almost have certainly have moulted again.

At this point I care about the T and want to get it to its next molt. It needs at least a little nutrients to do that

No it doesnt need any nutrients to moult. Agreed that moulting takes a lot out of a tarantula and it can use up internal moisture but if every time something went wrong during a moult and the spider died every time, the species would have died out a millennium ago


Provide fresh water at all times and if possible raise the temperature by several degrees and wait for the next moult

 

[Olan]

I have a mature female g. porteri that got some obstruction right after her molt and couldn't eat or drink. She molted again way ahead of schedule and was fine after that.