LadyVonChimp
Arachnosquire
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Hi all, last weekend I purchased a SA A.avic from a local reptile shop. They were keeping it in a tiny terrestrial tub with no water dish and poor ventilation, with an alive locust still inside and a couple of uneaten dead ones. As soon as I got home I added a dish, removed the dead and alive prey items and added more ventilation whilst ordering an arboreal enclosure from Tarantula Rooms.
The enclosure arrived yesterday and I got it all set up and rehoused. The poor thing has been sluggish and a bit uncoordinated the whole time it’s been in my care, but i put it down to being cramped and possibly dehydration. The spider seemed to rest at odd angles a lot and kept looking like it was getting it’s feet stuck on the cork bark while walking.
Today I noticed that one of the spinerettes doesn’t fold back as the other one does, so I worried about impaction, but then noticed a poop on the wall of the enclosure and figured that couldn’t be it. I observed the spider drinking and was pleased that it had.
a couple of hours later and saw the spider belly up on the substrate writhing around. I didn’t think she was in premoult but i guessed it could have been, so I left her alone and came back in an hour, and now she’s on the cork bark again. I’m so confused! Is the spider about to pass? What can I do to help? (If there even is anything that can be done in these situations).
I will attach photos of the set up and spider here.
thanks.
The enclosure arrived yesterday and I got it all set up and rehoused. The poor thing has been sluggish and a bit uncoordinated the whole time it’s been in my care, but i put it down to being cramped and possibly dehydration. The spider seemed to rest at odd angles a lot and kept looking like it was getting it’s feet stuck on the cork bark while walking.
Today I noticed that one of the spinerettes doesn’t fold back as the other one does, so I worried about impaction, but then noticed a poop on the wall of the enclosure and figured that couldn’t be it. I observed the spider drinking and was pleased that it had.
a couple of hours later and saw the spider belly up on the substrate writhing around. I didn’t think she was in premoult but i guessed it could have been, so I left her alone and came back in an hour, and now she’s on the cork bark again. I’m so confused! Is the spider about to pass? What can I do to help? (If there even is anything that can be done in these situations).
I will attach photos of the set up and spider here.
thanks.
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