MontePython
Arachnosquire
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2020
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All right, so I came a bit late to the Brachypelma game, and have only had my two for almost three months. Bela, my B. hamorii juvie (probably roughly 5-7cm dls?), pretty much immediately (within the first few weeks) started using the half-buried fake turtle shell hide in his enclosure, and tunneled out a pretty sizeable area behind the back opening of it and blocked up the entrance. He's not moulted in the time I've had him, and he's eaten about five times - almost all in the month of November (plus one in the first week of December).
He dug his den pretty much right up against one side of the critter keeper and so while I keep it pointed towards another enclosure and therefore never in direct light, I'm able to easily see what he's up to (usually he's just kinda sitting in there in a pretty typical resting position) and if he's gone into premoult (he has a few little patches, but is very much not darkened in colour at all).
However, the past few days I've noticed that he's spending almost the entire time at the bottom-most point of the chamber, in a stress pose (pictured below). I'm not 100% sure when it started, but I would say probably within the past three days? Occasionally I've seen him move because I was doing some maintence and a little water got spilled and made its way down to that level and he got up normally and moved away from it, but otherwise he seems pretty much to stay put in that position, and I'm not sure if there's something going on that I should be worried about, or if I'm overthinking (which I do know is a possibility).
Any thoughts?
He dug his den pretty much right up against one side of the critter keeper and so while I keep it pointed towards another enclosure and therefore never in direct light, I'm able to easily see what he's up to (usually he's just kinda sitting in there in a pretty typical resting position) and if he's gone into premoult (he has a few little patches, but is very much not darkened in colour at all).
However, the past few days I've noticed that he's spending almost the entire time at the bottom-most point of the chamber, in a stress pose (pictured below). I'm not 100% sure when it started, but I would say probably within the past three days? Occasionally I've seen him move because I was doing some maintence and a little water got spilled and made its way down to that level and he got up normally and moved away from it, but otherwise he seems pretty much to stay put in that position, and I'm not sure if there's something going on that I should be worried about, or if I'm overthinking (which I do know is a possibility).
Any thoughts?