LP problems

[DragonizedGlory]

Hey guys. Long time no see.
So how's everyone doing?



Lets get down to it, shall we.
My Lp is acting up and i want to know if its normal behavior. I've had this T since she was a sling. A real lazy thing. Ate well, molts always healthy. And now shes a 10cm amazing looking thing. Though her temper has always been a bit iffy..
Anyway recently she's been climbing her tank and tried to push the lid off. The first time i caught her just in time as it was about to swing inward and hurt her. So i put a weight on it but she's still a week later trying desperately to leave that tank. I thought it might be something in the soil or bugs but theres absolutely nothing wrong.
Have any of you observed such behaviors?

 

[Moakmeister]

Tarantulas do what they want. As long as the enclosure is dry, there's nothing wrong with it.

 

[Venom1080]

Agreed. Tarantulas do what they want.

Lasiodora like some humidity. I always overflow mines dishes weekly.

 

[darkness975]

Hey guys. Long time no see.
So how's everyone doing?



Lets get down to it, shall we.
My Lp is acting up and i want to know if its normal behavior. I've had this T since she was a sling. A real lazy thing. Ate well, molts always healthy. And now shes a 10cm amazing looking thing. Though her temper has always been a bit iffy..
Anyway recently she's been climbing her tank and tried to push the lid off. The first time i caught her just in time as it was about to swing inward and hurt her. So i put a weight on it but she's still a week later trying desperately to leave that tank. I thought it might be something in the soil or bugs but theres absolutely nothing wrong.
Have any of you observed such behaviors?

One of the most irritating things they do and sadly not preventable. All you can do is make sure that the lid is secured so it can't actually push it off.

B. hamorii

• darkness975
• Oct 24, 2016
• 1

>__>

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Yeah, they often seem to want to be wherever it is they cannot be.
I had my A. geniculate actually push the lid off and escape a few weeks ago, because the lid fits loosely and I forgot to put the weight I keep on top of it back after feeding the spider. I was very fortunate to have been ablre to find it, it could have gone anywhere but it elected to hole up in a spot no more than a foot from where it was housed. A rather pointless exercise if you ask me.

 

[the sith witch]

My LP, affectionately named "Fat Cow" by my arachnophobic mother, is about 5 inch DLS and one of her favorite thing to do is walk around the side of her sterilite tub and chew audibly on top edges under the locked lid and try to push it open. There's fang scratches everywhere and if the lid wasn't lockable, she'd have opened it long ago. Caught my adult C. elegans doing the same today and if I hadn't heard it to turn around and look, wouldn't have seen it actually pop the lid of the tiny cup it's in open so I could close it down in a hurry.
Lesson learned? Tarantula going to tarantulate at any size. Dirt always seems browner in the neighbor's enclosure. Also either get locking lids or appropriately sized bricks to put on top (I mean, my LP is of a size that'd be easier to spot, the C. elegans though, ugh )

 

[viper69]

Are you sure it's a female? Molt confirmed?

I strongly suggest you find better ways to keep Ts before you have an escape.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Sounds normal for a Lasiodora tbh, my difficilis snapped a fang trying to chew her way through the vents of her kritter keeper and she occasionally tries to push the lid off of the modified aquarium I rehoused her to after she moulted (the lid's secured by magnets though so she ain't getting out).

 

[Pokie11]

My juvenile male LP is doing the same thing. Lasiodoras seem to be really curious sometimes.

 

[sasker]

Just be careful that your tarantula won't break a fang. Mine broke both on a Kritter Keeper lid. Perhaps there is something she does not like about her setup. You could post a picture, just in case.

 

[Otteresting]

Just be careful that your tarantula won't break a fang. Mine broke both on a Kritter Keeper lid. Perhaps there is something she does not like about her setup. You could post a picture, just in case.

Just to be aware, was that fatal to your T ?

 

[sasker]

No, she was quite chubby by the time it happened. A few months without eating and she put on some new clothes. She regained most of her fangs in this molt, one being only slightly smaller than the other, but otherwise fully functional. As we speak she is munching on a adult female dubia roach. Such amazing creatures!

 

[EulersK]

As long as the enclosure is dry, there's nothing wrong with it.

Pretty sure my girls would die in a dry enclosure. They start hovering over the water dish even before the substrate is completely dry. LP's can be kept dry in humid environments, not so much in dry climates. @DragonizedGlory, I'd suggest bumping the humidity in there and see if that changes anything. Also heed the advice others brought up about the enclosure before you have an escape.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Pretty sure my girls would die in a dry enclosure. They start hovering over the water dish even before the substrate is completely dry. LP's can be kept dry in humid environments, not so much in dry climates. @DragonizedGlory, I'd suggest bumping the humidity in there and see if that changes anything. Also heed the advice others brought up about the enclosure before you have an escape.

I keep mine the same as my genic, they seem "happiest" on slightly moist substrate. If you keep them too dry they perpetually straddle the water dish, keep them too wet and they just climb non-stop.

 

[Moakmeister]

Pretty sure my girls would die in a dry enclosure. They start hovering over the water dish even before the substrate is completely dry. LP's can be kept dry in humid environments, not so much in dry climates. @DragonizedGlory, I'd suggest bumping the humidity in there and see if that changes anything. Also heed the advice others brought up about the enclosure before you have an escape.

Oh. My bad, I assumed that LPs are another one of those that should be dry.

 

[Mirandarachnid]

One of the most irritating things they do and sadly not preventable. All you can do is make sure that the lid is secured so it can't actually push it off.

B. hamorii

• darkness975
• Oct 24, 2016
• 1

>__>

I love the background you have in this enclosure!

My LP never straddles the dish, it tells me the sub is too dry by dragging a piece of sphagnum moss across it's dish so all the water wicks out into the sub.

Winter in the Texas panhandle is a constant battle with dry conditions, very much ready for it to be over.

 

[darkness975]

I love the background you have in this enclosure!

Backgrounds give enclosures so much more depth. Especially because I keep mine relatively empty of decorarions.

G. porteri

• darkness975
• Oct 10, 2016
• 3

B. hamorii

• darkness975
• Oct 10, 2016
• 4