And it arrived frozen. It's legs were all stuck in the air, pointing the opposite way they're supposed to, but it was still alive, twitching and trying to move. I put it in ICU but it died about 3 hours later. I am so sad... it looked like a really cute little fella too. And i'd been after one of these for quite some time. Just wanted to voice my pain. Sigh...
Finally got me a T.apophysis :o(
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Its funny, I just bought a male t.apophysis, and it arrived D.O.A... from a poor packaging job and possibly the cold. It sucks.
The frustrating thing about my situation is that it was very well packaged, and came with a heat pad... problem was, inbetween the spider and the head pad was a load of polystyrene which prevented any heat reaching the spider... So the area around the heat pad was lovely and warm... and the spider vial was freezing cold.
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It is pretty typical from what I have seen for there to be a barrier between the heatpack and the spider. I have had egg cartons, newspaper, styrofoam, etc. placed between the spider and the heat pack.. Direct contact is usually too warm I gather... Every shipment with a heat pack has had something buffering it...
I am not suggesting nothing between spider and heat source, but to use a substance that is super efficient at preventing any heat reaching the spider... makes no sense whatsoever. Why use a heat pad at all? So the sender can go, "hey, i did my job, i gave it a heat pad". Well, kinda, but not really...
Some crumpled newspaper would dissipate the heat whilst allowing at least a little heat transfer, enough to say, oh I don't know, keep the poor spider alive long enough to reach its destination? That's how I send spiders out and I have never lost one. I have however received two recently that arrived frozen and died soon after. It's not even about the money (even though those two spiders cost me $170.00) for me it's about a tragic and unnecessary waste of life.
Some crumpled newspaper would dissipate the heat whilst allowing at least a little heat transfer, enough to say, oh I don't know, keep the poor spider alive long enough to reach its destination? That's how I send spiders out and I have never lost one. I have however received two recently that arrived frozen and died soon after. It's not even about the money (even though those two spiders cost me $170.00) for me it's about a tragic and unnecessary waste of life.
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sorry bout that, i lost a lot of rare lings in one of my shipments,like 10 of them. they were replaced but some werent due to rarity..