Eventful rehousings?

[slocoj91]

I've not seen anything along these lines having been done for a bit. Would love to know any chaotic rehousing stories, or those you just outright dread!

I just received some freebies with an order. On housing the first of these, I'm fairly certain the seller took an opportunity to offload a demon. I knew it could be eventful - it was a P.murinus sling. I hadn't anticipated the little bugger doing everything in it's power to avoid the enclosure and safe space I'd provided, with a view to apparently continuing out of the box I was using for housing. When those attempts were thwarted it just continued to do laps around the base of the enclosure, with an occasional change of direction when it decided the paintbrush was being too bossy.

I've given them reasonable sub, along with some fake foliage, and hopefully they'll be alright for a bit. Already not looking forward to managing that move - looking very much like it's going to be a case of sizing up more than I might usually, and just leaving the old enclosure in there for them to rehouse themselves.

 

[Konstantin Konstantinov]

HI
i had similar experience with some D diamantinensis slings and 3cm Holothele longipes. Little teleporting buggers.One D diamantinensis went half way trough my foor in a blink of an eye before I caught it.Luckily the D diamantinensis once they put some web down tend to stick to it rather than bolting out. Unfortunately the Holothele longipes never webbed much it stuck to its hide when felt the need to retreat but always mega bolty and skittish even now being AF.I named her Speed demon.lol
On the bright side I have MM Holothele longipes coming tomorrow.Im sure the initial housing will be fun as probably will be the pairing attempt in few weeks when the female has had few more meals.
Regards Konstantin

 

[Cmac2111]

For me, the only T to ever be properly chaotic during a rehousing was actually a C versicolor. She was smaller (about 3 inches) and I moved her into a tarantula room enclosure. Idk if you've ever used tarantula room enclosures but if you have then you'll know that they have a magnetic lid with... I guess a 'lip' is the best way of describing it, and it's fair to say it had some kind of effect on her. After I removed the lid and guided her to the top (she was super chill to this point and always had been in the past), she reached the lip of the enclosure and just started tearing around it over and over at the speed of sound. Whenever she stopped to catch a breather, I would try to guide her inside with a paintbrush, but she wasn't having it... just kept speeding around the top like a little racecar, didn't want to get off it at all. This continued for about 25 minutes before she finally went inside... she's been an absolute gem since, but I won't forget that incident!

Aside from that, no real chaos but many of my phormictopus species can be absolute monsters when it comes to rehousing (my atrichomatus and sp. Dominican purple are particularly hateful). Threat postures, slapping, hair kicking, bolting... everything you could ever wish for.

 

[slocoj91]

For me, the only T to ever be properly chaotic during a rehousing was actually a C versicolor. She was smaller (about 3 inches) and I moved her into a tarantula room enclosure. Idk if you've ever used tarantula room enclosures but if you have then you'll know that they have a magnetic lid with... I guess a 'lip' is the best way of describing it, and it's fair to say it had some kind of effect on her. After I removed the lid and guided her to the top (she was super chill to this point and always had been in the past), she reached the lip of the enclosure and just started tearing around it over and over at the speed of sound. Whenever she stopped to catch a breather, I would try to guide her inside with a paintbrush, but she wasn't having it... just kept speeding around the top like a little racecar, didn't want to get off it at all. This continued for about 25 minutes before she finally went inside... she's been an absolute gem since, but I won't forget that incident!

Aside from that, no real chaos but many of my phormictopus species can be absolute monsters when it comes to rehousing (my atrichomatus and sp. Dominican purple are particularly hateful). Threat postures, slapping, hair kicking, bolting... everything you could ever wish for.

I know what you mean with the Tarantula room enclosures. Funny that you mention that with your Versicolor, because one of my A.purpurea has done similar in an arboreal keeper enclosure. I think it only worked out so well because those open halfway down so they bolted to the top and did laps but I was still able to close the thing. That guy has always been super high strung, makes me think more of the way I've heard Tapinauchenius described aside from the lack of turrets.

 

[slocoj91]

HI
i had similar experience with some D diamantinensis slings and 3cm Holothele longipes. Little teleporting buggers.One D diamantinensis went half way trough my foor in a blink of an eye before I caught it.Luckily the D diamantinensis once they put some web down tend to stick to it rather than bolting out. Unfortunately the Holothele longipes never webbed much it stuck to its hide when felt the need to retreat but always mega bolty and skittish even now being AF.I named her Speed demon.lol
On the bright side I have MM Holothele longipes coming tomorrow.Im sure the initial housing will be fun as probably will be the pairing attempt in few weeks when the female has had few more meals.
Regards Konstantin

Glad my D.diamentinensis just went straight under the cork bark when I moved them in! They laid that webbing down fast too.
Holothele longpipes was nice and easy too. They seem entirely content aside from the total lack of anything bar sitting under the hide. Well, not technically true, just before their last moult it had been a while since I'd fed them - in the hope that it would prompt an appearance - and they came and sat quite pointedly under the flip lid until food was chucked in and they disappeared again. If it wasn't for the occasional catching of a leg in the hide under a torch light at the right angle, and the occasional appearance of a moult, I'd not have a clue they were still there.

 

[coolnweird]

Waiting for the guy who lost an old world in the sink overflow drain to chime in lol, can't quite remember who it was

My most eventful was a MM GBB doing laps around my bathtub as I tried to pack him up for breeding

 

[l4nsky]

Waiting for the guy who lost an old world in the sink overflow drain to chime in lol, can't quite remember who it was

That would be the story of @spideyspinneret78 and the Chilobrachys huahini 'Bathroom Sink'.

Haven't had a lot of misadventures during rehousing. I have had a few during supervised breeding attempts though. If you think having a 6"+ DLS tarantula bolt out of it's enclosure is a bad time, I can tell you having two do it at the same time is even worse.

 

[coolnweird]

That would be the story of @spideyspinneret78 and the Chilobrachys huahini 'Bathroom Sink'.

Haven't had a lot of misadventures during rehousing. I have had a few during supervised breeding attempts though. If you think having a 6"+ DLS tarantula bolt out of it's enclosure is a bad time, I can tell you having two do it at the same time is even worse.

That's the one I recall another situation where a different user lost a balfouri in their reclining chair

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Oh boy, here I go digging out the scumbag Chilobrachys huahini meme again...

 

[Jaycooks1]

Another C. Versi story here. I picked up a couple of slings at the expo and went home to rehouse from tiny deli cups to starter sling enclosures. The one i was most worried about was the Peach Earth Tiger I am thinking fast OW Asian this could get interesting nope she strolled from enclosure to the next one no fuss. The Versi jumped out of the deli cup as soon as i cracked the lid and chase began across the desk up my arm back to the desk behind the new enclosure. Finally got her in the capture cup then to the new enclosure she did the spider zoomies around the top trying to get out while i was trying to paintbrush and put the lid on with out pinching any feet. Her next rehouse will take place in the large Cambro tub LOL. Never thought of the C. Versi as a fast trouble maker.

 

[Byebyebaby]

Rehoused my A. avic one time and it’s usually very chill so I trusted it enough to leave the lid open while I was putting the new enclosure near its old one and out of no where it jumped on to my leg! I’m not gonna lie, I flung it A LITTLE bit (first reaction) but it was unharmed thankfully and we got it situated lol but all in all, it goes to say never underestimate your T’s.

 

[winter]

In the early days of the pandemic, I lived out of our travel trailer as I work in the healthcare industry and did not want to expose my family to the virus; all my Ts were moved into the trailer with me. During rehousing of a juvenile C. lividus, I carefully dug it out of it's burrow only to have it bolt out of its old enclosure, run laps inside the Sterilite tub used to contain everything, up and over the lip of the Sterilite tub, onto the floor of the trailer, and into the heater vent. That T must have been running at top speed nonstop for at least 15 to 20 seconds, I didn't think it could sustain such level of activity for such an amount of time. Imagine my horror at having to tell my wife that there's an old word T loose in the heating ducts of our trailer potentially emerging at random times and running into our toddler or our dog. Inspiration struck during the moment of despair and I turned on the furnace; thankfully, the T then slowly crawled out of the heater vent and was successfully cupped and placed in its new home.

 

[octo pedes]

I had a mid-sized juvenile C. Versicolor and was rehousing it in a bioactive terrarium. This little booger lept straight from the log in the new enclosure onto my chest, tossed (not quite jumped, it looked like a ghost had swatted him across the counter) itself onto the counter, and GAME ON. My hubby, agreeable with my hobby but not happy with the thought of them out, walked through as the little guy jumped from counter to towel, floor, and chair. No running, just jumping. My hubby went, "oh, f*** no," grabbed the cats...and proceeded to scream like a girl when the spider outpaced him, plopping down on the ottoman in the living room. Hubby and the cats spent about 20 minutes in the hall bathroom. At the same time, I had to climb up to the corner of my cathedral ceiling to get this guy - with a butterfly net I had to tape onto a retractable marshmallow stick because he was still out of reach, even with a ladder. Long story short, I now have a 16' ladder.

 

[Matt Man]

Oh boy, here I go digging out the scumbag Chilobrachys huahini meme again...

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such a pretty T and burrow

 

[Mike Withrow]

Damarchus workmani are little bit funky to work with.
I did a recent rehouse with my fumosus and had a 32oz deli cup as my catch cup. I left the lid on it and when she took off out out the new tank I was very confused why the cup would not fit over her. As usual everything happened so fast I didn't realize I still had the lid on.

 

[slocoj91]

That would be the story of @spideyspinneret78 and the Chilobrachys huahini 'Bathroom Sink'.

Haven't had a lot of misadventures during rehousing. I have had a few during supervised breeding attempts though. If you think having a 6"+ DLS tarantula bolt out of it's enclosure is a bad time, I can tell you having two do it at the same time is even worse.

Ah yes, nothing like two critters moving in opposite directions. Or the same direction and wondering if one will survive 0.0

 

[slocoj91]

Damarchus workmani are little bit funky to work with.
I did a recent rehouse with my fumosus and had a 32oz deli cup as my catch cup. I left the lid on it and when she took off out out the new tank I was very confused why the cup would not fit over her. As usual everything happened so fast I didn't realize I still had the lid on.

Oops!

I'm looking at Damarchus, very tempted but haven't had lots of time to find good info as it seems quite scattered!

 

[slocoj91]

In the early days of the pandemic, I lived out of our travel trailer as I work in the healthcare industry and did not want to expose my family to the virus; all my Ts were moved into the trailer with me. During rehousing of a juvenile C. lividus, I carefully dug it out of it's burrow only to have it bolt out of its old enclosure, run laps inside the Sterilite tub used to contain everything, up and over the lip of the Sterilite tub, onto the floor of the trailer, and into the heater vent. That T must have been running at top speed nonstop for at least 15 to 20 seconds, I didn't think it could sustain such level of activity for such an amount of time. Imagine my horror at having to tell my wife that there's an old word T loose in the heating ducts of our trailer potentially emerging at random times and running into our toddler or our dog. Inspiration struck during the moment of despair and I turned on the furnace; thankfully, the T then slowly crawled out of the heater vent and was successfully cupped and placed in its new home.

Fear of the wife's fear of a T sparked the plan there! Glad you managed to get them contained.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Oops!

I'm looking at Damarchus, very tempted but haven't had lots of time to find good info as it seems quite scattered!

Actually you can find plenty of information on them. They were looked into around 2012 after 100 years or so of no study.
At first I thought I had ran into an impossible situation,but after a lot of reading I found the information needed to identify what I have and can try and pair them even tho I'm starting out with F0. The link I have is actually from a member or probably members of this forum,I just don't know if I have permission to post it.

 

[slocoj91]

Actually you can find plenty of information on them. They were looked into around 2012 after 100 years or so of no study.
At first I thought I had ran into an impossible situation,but after a lot of reading I found the information needed to identify what I have and can try and pair them even tho I'm starting out with F0. The link I have is actually from a member or probably members of this forum,I just don't know if I have permission to post it.

Fair enough, I'll keep digging. I've searched this forum as well but maybe I didn't go far enough back. Thanks for confirming stuff *is* out there though, I can struggle to know when to let stuff go when I can't find things.