Cassiusstein
Arachnosquire
- Joined
- Dec 9, 2016
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- 102
This thread is dedicated to my personal experience as a new T owner, with a main focus of my mistakes. I'm putting my pride in the back seat with the hopes that newbies like myself will look at this thread and take a few notes, hopefully skipping as much of my mistakes as possible. As I make mistakes, I'll post in the thread, I fully understand the things I post are generally idiotic, but that's why it's mistakes you make once.
With that said, my first story has already been posted in another thread, so here's the link - http://arachnoboards.com/threads/i-thought-i-was-ready.289537/
Now, my second most notable mistake is a big one I made tonight, with the SAME spider, this one left me shakey and teary eyed. I feel like a moron but I'll share like I promised.
I was moving all of my slings from where I keep them to my desk, so I could water, remove garbage, ect. While moving my avic avic I carried the container from the top. The top removes! And it did separate in the middle of moving it! First off, I did not like this enclosure in the first place, it's not recommended to use top opening containers for arboreal species, and I did want to change it soon. Besides, it was ugly. The whole section of the encolsure containing the T smashed to the ground, sending dirt, decor, and the T flying. Lucking I had help and we were fast enough to locate and capture the T, who I put in a temporary deli cup so I can monitor her in to make sure she's ok. Seeing her on the floor looking terrified put a knot in my stomach, and does again when I think about it. Man I feel dumber than dumb, and almost cried, I'm praying the T is ok. DO NOT CARRY TOP OPENING CONTAINERS BY THE TOP. Just be extremely conscious of EVERYTHING you're doing, no matter how small the task may seem. I'm gonna be mad and red faced about this one for a while.
That's all for today, I'll post as I make mistakes, always putting my pride away and not leaving any details out. More experienced owners feel free to tear me a new one if you want, not only do I deserve it, but maybe it'll help grind it into my brain. Not that I'll be forgetting that any time soon...
With that said, my first story has already been posted in another thread, so here's the link - http://arachnoboards.com/threads/i-thought-i-was-ready.289537/
Now, my second most notable mistake is a big one I made tonight, with the SAME spider, this one left me shakey and teary eyed. I feel like a moron but I'll share like I promised.
I was moving all of my slings from where I keep them to my desk, so I could water, remove garbage, ect. While moving my avic avic I carried the container from the top. The top removes! And it did separate in the middle of moving it! First off, I did not like this enclosure in the first place, it's not recommended to use top opening containers for arboreal species, and I did want to change it soon. Besides, it was ugly. The whole section of the encolsure containing the T smashed to the ground, sending dirt, decor, and the T flying. Lucking I had help and we were fast enough to locate and capture the T, who I put in a temporary deli cup so I can monitor her in to make sure she's ok. Seeing her on the floor looking terrified put a knot in my stomach, and does again when I think about it. Man I feel dumber than dumb, and almost cried, I'm praying the T is ok. DO NOT CARRY TOP OPENING CONTAINERS BY THE TOP. Just be extremely conscious of EVERYTHING you're doing, no matter how small the task may seem. I'm gonna be mad and red faced about this one for a while.
That's all for today, I'll post as I make mistakes, always putting my pride away and not leaving any details out. More experienced owners feel free to tear me a new one if you want, not only do I deserve it, but maybe it'll help grind it into my brain. Not that I'll be forgetting that any time soon...