Hyeniik
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- May 28, 2017
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- 7
Hello.
So, yesterday I posted a question about a bold place appearing on my tarantulas abdomen. It was rather small yesterday, and today when I checked her abdomen again, there was this rather big clump of hair fallen out, just sitting caught on the longer hair on her abdomen.
Now, I know tarantulas get bald spots when they kick their hairs out, but she wouldn´t have a big clump of hair sitting on her butt if she kicked them.
For a moment I thought it was some kind of dirt that has fallen into her enclosure, so I grabbed a very soft paint brush and proceeded to gently swipe the clump of her abdomen. However, after that the bald spot gotten bigger and more hairs got released.
When it comes to her nature, she is very calm and seems to be rather curious and social.
Anytime I try to handle her, she´s be very calm on my hand, would walk slowly, and very, very rarely would bolt away, only did it once when she walked over my friends leg. I´ve only seen her kick hair 3 times and I don´t think that´s enough to make the bald spot on her butt to appear.
Is this normal? Can they lose hair even if they don´t kick them out?
Also, she climbs the plastic walls of her enclosure very often and sometiems falls down. The walls aren´t high at all, so it´s very unlikely she´d hurt herself. But could she, like, prehaps scrape her hair off while falling?
So, yesterday I posted a question about a bold place appearing on my tarantulas abdomen. It was rather small yesterday, and today when I checked her abdomen again, there was this rather big clump of hair fallen out, just sitting caught on the longer hair on her abdomen.
Now, I know tarantulas get bald spots when they kick their hairs out, but she wouldn´t have a big clump of hair sitting on her butt if she kicked them.
For a moment I thought it was some kind of dirt that has fallen into her enclosure, so I grabbed a very soft paint brush and proceeded to gently swipe the clump of her abdomen. However, after that the bald spot gotten bigger and more hairs got released.
When it comes to her nature, she is very calm and seems to be rather curious and social.
Anytime I try to handle her, she´s be very calm on my hand, would walk slowly, and very, very rarely would bolt away, only did it once when she walked over my friends leg. I´ve only seen her kick hair 3 times and I don´t think that´s enough to make the bald spot on her butt to appear.
Is this normal? Can they lose hair even if they don´t kick them out?
Also, she climbs the plastic walls of her enclosure very often and sometiems falls down. The walls aren´t high at all, so it´s very unlikely she´d hurt herself. But could she, like, prehaps scrape her hair off while falling?