Last time I take advice over logic.

[Arachnomaniac19]

So last night I go to check up on my Ts and I find my adult female Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica drowned in her water dish. From now on I'm going to go with logic alone instead of people's advice.

 

[basin79]

So last night I go to check up on my Ts and I find my adult female Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica drowned in her water dish. From now on I'm going to go with logic alone instead of people's advice.

You're adult female didn't die because of her water dish. It's extremely upsetting she's died but a water dish didn't cause it.

 

[GreyPsyche]

May I ask how this happened and what this is about?

 

[miss moxie]

It's possible she wasn't feeling well -because- something was wrong with her and went to the water dish and died in it rather than drowned in it...

 

[Anoplogaster]

I'd agree with others. I feel like something else caused the death. Just because a dead person is lying on the floor doesn't mean the floor caused the death.

 

[14pokies]

The only way I could see your tarantula dying do to her water dish is if thats where she chose to molt..

 

[Venom1080]

Yeah, I doubt it.

 

[MetalMan2004]

That is dissapointing but I agree with the others here. If the logic you speak of is that animals don't need a water source I'd say its flawed...

I've read of people raising slings with no water dish without issue (I haven't tried it myself) so you can certainly do that if you choose. Just be prepared to check on them twice as often so they don't have the chance to dry out.

 

[miss moxie]

That is dissapointing but I agree with the others here. If the logic you speak of is that animals don't need a water source I'd say its flawed...

Has anyone tried putting a sponge in the water dish? That would keep them from drowning I think...

Joking aside, unless you were using a gallon bucket for a water dish it's just really unlikely she drowned. I'm sorry for your loss, sometimes Ts do just die. Not everything lives long enough to die of old age. Or-- maybe it was old age? Did you raise her from a sling? Do you know how old she was?

 

[Ellenantula]

I'm so sorry you lost her. I have to agree she didn't drown. The fact she was laying in her water dish tells me something else must have been wrong.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

I'm sorry my man but 'logic', in life, is extremely overestimated just like certain advice, no doubts. Mark my words.

I've spent hours reading that "centipedes tend to dessiccate, or are prone to..." and whatever, since I've never had so much experience with 'pedes, unlike for T's.

Then, one day, my female S. subspinipes throwed out almost 30 pedelings. One (only one...?) escaped (I wasn't aware of that event, of course) and, a good four months later, I've encountered him/her just out of my door: pretty "fat" just like 'fatty' are healthy centipedes, and almost at a good (inches) size stage (they were pedelings).

Without water. Finding food all alone. Molting. With the furnace on 24/7 since I was in Winter.

They "dessiccate" my butt! :-s

"Logic. Advices". Sure. Instinct saved that S. subspinipes that still lives in my garden

 

[JoshDM020]

If the abdomen wasnt in the water, its quite literally impossible for it to have drowned. If it was too weak to hold itself out of the water in the first place, something else was wrong. If your water dish was waaaaayyyyyy too big and somehow the spider couldn't escape it, i hate to say it, but that would kinda be your fault. Spiders dont just drown out of nowhere. There are so many tarantulas known to swim in the wild and quite frankly id be surprised if any couldnt, unless it was a desert species. And i dont believe pokies are.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

The only way I could see your tarantula dying do to her water dish is if thats where she chose to molt..

Or if she maybe fell onto the lip of the dish and suffered internal injuries sufficient enough to kill her.

OP: As everyone else has already said, it's extremely unlikely that drowning was the cause of death here. Sorry for your loss.

 

[grayzone]

Spiders can be fully submerged for quite a while.
They do not breathe in the way we do.
The waterdish was not an issue

 

[14pokies]

Or if she maybe fell onto the lip of the dish and suffered internal injuries sufficient enough to kill her.

I've never had a Poec molt in an elevated area.. All of mine either molt in there hides or behind a haphazard web and dirt curtain on the substrate.

I suppose it's possible though.

 

[user 666]

Spiders can be fully submerged for quite a while.
They do not breathe in the way we do.
The waterdish was not an issue

Oh, neat!

the video shows the T's hairs holding air against its skin (it's why "he looks chrome") . It can probably breath from that reserve for a while before it has to come back up.

 

[cold blood]

Or if she maybe fell onto the lip of the dish and suffered internal injuries sufficient enough to kill her.

OP: As everyone else has already said, it's extremely unlikely that drowning was the cause of death here. Sorry for your loss.

Or died and just fell in post mortem.

There's no conceivable way to even imagine an adult pokie drowning...it would need to be forced into position with its abdomen submerged.....if its abdomen is submerged, its in position to just walk out....plus it would need to sit like that for a long time.

If someone dies in the bathroom, do we blame the crapper?


Still though...sorry for the loss.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

I've never had a Poec molt in an elevated area.. All of mine either molt in there hides or behind a haphazard web and dirt curtain on the substrate.

I suppose it's possible though.

Some arboreal species lose their ability to grip smooth surfaces when close to a moult so it could've been taking a wander around the enclosure, slipped off and hit the edge of the dish, that was my thinking behind it anyway.

Or died and just fell in post mortem.

There is that too, found my Y. diversipes sling dead in its water dish, it hadn't been right since it moulted a week prior to its death so I knew it didn't drown.

 

[Andrea82]

OP dropped a bomb and then left. A bit weird..
(This one's for @Chris LXXIX )
Smh...

 

[mconnachan]

OP dropped a bomb and then left. A bit weird..
(This one's for @Chris LXXIX )
Smh...

I think the fact that he was proven wrong within a couple of posts, may have been enough to go and hang his head in shame. He came on the thread, basically blamed everyone for duff advice and left. Lollipop.