Shudragon
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2017
- Messages
- 43
Hey guys,
So in my most recent T order I got a skeleton, curly hair and tiger rump. I live in northern Michigan where it is unseasonably warm at about 30 degrees right now, and normally I just hold my overnights at the delivery location and pick them up/take them home/warm them up ASAP. Never had a DoA from any of my Ts or feeders this way.
Unfortunately due to an ordering/shipping error I didn't receive my tracking number and info from the vendor until the day of delivery, meaning these guys sat on a truck in freezing temps all day because I couldn't hold them at pickup. I felt awful but was hopeful they would make it (standard heat pack/styro packing).
Tiger rump was surprisingly lightning fast on unbox and literally jumped out of its dish. Curly hair was terrifyingly curled up but turned out to be stress posture and has already eaten a cricket for me (woohoo).
The skeleton is not faring so well, and I ask more veteran keepers to help me understand what is going on. It is alive, however it is twitching single legs at a time and almost unmoving. At first I thought this was an effort to move fluid around and warm up, however it has been almost 6 hours and the behavior continues without the T moving in the least. It hasn't curled yet but I am worried this is DKS from stress from shipping and I'll lose the beautiful T before I get a chance with him. Should I ICU it? Any opinions for me?
TL;DR Spider is twitching single legs and I am worried it is DKS from shipping stress. Help?
http://imgur.com/4NQAiYA <picture, placed him to be able to get water hopefully.
So in my most recent T order I got a skeleton, curly hair and tiger rump. I live in northern Michigan where it is unseasonably warm at about 30 degrees right now, and normally I just hold my overnights at the delivery location and pick them up/take them home/warm them up ASAP. Never had a DoA from any of my Ts or feeders this way.
Unfortunately due to an ordering/shipping error I didn't receive my tracking number and info from the vendor until the day of delivery, meaning these guys sat on a truck in freezing temps all day because I couldn't hold them at pickup. I felt awful but was hopeful they would make it (standard heat pack/styro packing).
Tiger rump was surprisingly lightning fast on unbox and literally jumped out of its dish. Curly hair was terrifyingly curled up but turned out to be stress posture and has already eaten a cricket for me (woohoo).
The skeleton is not faring so well, and I ask more veteran keepers to help me understand what is going on. It is alive, however it is twitching single legs at a time and almost unmoving. At first I thought this was an effort to move fluid around and warm up, however it has been almost 6 hours and the behavior continues without the T moving in the least. It hasn't curled yet but I am worried this is DKS from stress from shipping and I'll lose the beautiful T before I get a chance with him. Should I ICU it? Any opinions for me?
TL;DR Spider is twitching single legs and I am worried it is DKS from shipping stress. Help?
http://imgur.com/4NQAiYA <picture, placed him to be able to get water hopefully.