My tarantula fell!! Need help!!

[Death the sling]

My new female E. Murinus fell because im trying to house her, while im trying to house her she started attacking my stick n I got scared because she's so fast n I accidentally drop her onto the carpet.

The height of the table is 4 feet n im nervous that she's gonna die.

What should I do?

 

[Arachnoclown]

Photos....

 

[Chris LXXIX]

What should I do?

Eh... and what you should do, one moment?

1) Put the spider into his/her enclosure, access to water.

2) As said above, upload a pic;

3) Hope that nothing went bad, internal especially.

There's nothing else to do, I'm sorry. There aren't 'insider tricks' to share.

Btw, oh... your nickname is a sorta 'nome-omen':
'Death the sling', thank God not 'Death to the sling'

 

[The Grym Reaper]

'Death the sling', thank God not 'Death to the sling'

The sling is dead... LONG LIVE THE SLING!!

What should I do?

Get the tarantula into a catch cup and look it over to make sure there are no injuries/no fluid leaking from the abdomen, this is your main concern as injuries to the abdomen can often be fatal. Injured legs aren't as big a deal as they can self-amputate and shut off the flow of haemolymph to the affected limb to prevent bleeding out.

House it in the enclosure and make sure it has access to water. There's not really much else you can do other than hope for the best.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

The sling is dead... LONG LIVE THE SLING!!

Ok, you asked for it v

We few (slings). We happy few (slings).
We band of (slings) brothers, for he (the sling) today
That sheds his blood with me
Shall be my (sling) brother.

- Henry V, William Shakespeare

 

[Death the sling]

That's her now, earlier when I put her inside, her legs are expanded n now she's like scared or something .-.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

That's her now, earlier when I put her inside, her legs are expanded n now she's like scared or something .-.

As far I can tell (and my eyes can see) seems to me more of a (and its normal) stressed spider but you never know. Keep the water dish full and update the thread.

 

[Death the sling]

Okay thank you

The sling is dead... LONG LIVE THE SLING!!



Get the tarantula into a catch cup and look it over to make sure there are no injuries/no fluid leaking from the abdomen, this is your main concern as injuries to the abdomen can often be fatal. Injured legs aren't as big a deal as they can self-amputate and shut off the flow of haemolymph to the affected limb to prevent bleeding out.

House it in the enclosure and make sure it has access to water. There's not really much else you can do other than hope for the

As far I can tell (and my eyes can see) seems to me more of a (and its normal) stressed spider but you never know. Keep the water dish full and update the thread.

The sling is dead... LONG LIVE THE SLING!!



Get the tarantula into a catch cup and look it over to make sure there are no injuries/no fluid leaking from the abdomen, this is your main concern as injuries to the abdomen can often be fatal. Injured legs aren't as big a deal as they can self-amputate and shut off the flow of haemolymph to the affected limb to prevent bleeding out.

House it in the enclosure and make sure it has access to water. There's not really much else you can do other than hope for the best.

Oka

The sling is dead... LONG LIVE THE SLING!!



Get the tarantula into a catch cup and look it over to make sure there are no injuries/no fluid leaking from the abdomen, this is your main concern as injuries to the abdomen can often be fatal. Injured legs aren't as big a deal as they can self-amputate and shut off the flow of haemolymph to the affected limb to prevent bleeding out.

House it in the enclosure and make sure it has access to water. There's not really much else you can do other than hope for the best.

Okay thank you.

But I'm confused, cause I rehoused her again, cause the first enclosure is so small so I put her in the catch cup n put her in a bigger enclosure and I think she's stressed or somethin?

Photos....

Sorry it's late, but here's the pictures

 

[viper69]

Seems like a lot of moisture in there.

There's nothing you can do, EXCEPT learn better methods of doing husbandry AND pay STRICT attention to the size of her abdomen- hope you have a water bowl in there.

 

[NukaMedia Exotics]

Sorry it's late, but here's the pictures

Can't say anything for sure but you dropping it from 4 feet is prettttty bad... I've never had a T die so I'm not sure what a death curl looks like, probably not good that its sitting in any position even close to a curl though...

If it does survive E. murinus are fossorial T's so give it ~5+" inches of sub so it can build a burrow. I've got a 6" female that's eating 2 crickets simultaneously as we speak.
EDIT: Make that 3 crickets.

 

[Death the sling]

Okay thank you, I will.

Seems like a lot of moisture in there.

There's nothing you can do, EXCEPT learn better methods of doing husbandry AND pay STRICT attention to the size of her abdomen- hope you have a water bowl in there.

I do have a waterbowl, I will look at her everyday n ill make sure that if something happen ill update this thread. Thank you

 

[Mirandarachnid]

I've never had a T die so I'm not sure what a death curl looks like, probably not good that its sitting in any position even close to a curl though...
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That looks like a stress curl. When tarantulas are stressed out they scrunch their legs up around their body, and sorta cover their eyes. Even a smooth rehouse can illicit this body language.

EDIT: When a T is in a death curl, the legs will be curled under the spider, and the weight of the spider will be on the joints. In the pictures you can see that the legs are not curled so much as scrunched up, and that the spider is supporting it's own weight.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

probably not good that its sitting in any position even close to a curl though...

That looks like a stress curl.

Classic stress curl

 

[NukaMedia Exotics]

Classic stress curl

So a 4 foot drop isn't usually fatal? I was under the impression a fall from an enclosure with too much height could possibly kill a T, but that would probably be only a foot or less drop.

 

[Mirandarachnid]

So a 4 foot drop isn't usually fatal? I was under the impression a fall from an enclosure with too much height could possibly kill a T, but that would probably be only a foot or less drop.

We were talking about the spider's body language, not the fall.

A four foot drop isn't great, but at least it was onto carpet. All that can be done is for OP to provide water, wait, and watch.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

So a 4 foot drop isn't usually fatal?

Only if the tarantula lands funny and bursts open its abdomen or manages to do some serious internal damage, my N. chromatus took a 4ft swan dive off the top of my snake's viv a while back and she's fine.

 

[Death the sling]

My new female E. Murinus fell because im trying to house her, while im trying to house her she started attacking my stick n I got scared because she's so fast n I accidentally drop her onto the carpet.

The height of the table is 4 feet n im nervous that she's gonna die.

What should I do?

Update: I freaked out cause I thought that's her organs lol but when I tried to kinda poke her, she lift her butt up n it's part of the substrate.

 

[boina]

That enclosure looks seriously too wet. They do need moist substrate, but yours looks soaking wet and that is not a good idea. I further would bury the water dish a bit so that it is level with the substrate - it makes it much easier for the tarantula to drink. If the dish is as high as yours they have to do some serious spider acrobatics to drink from it.

 

[Little Grey Spider]

That's her now, earlier when I put her inside, her legs are expanded n now she's like scared or something .-.

Wouldn't you be scared if some giant creature pulled you out of your house and dropped you off a building? To me, that tarantula looks stressed as others have said. Mine go into this position during rehouses that even go as smoothly as possible. That being said, take a step back, examine the methods you were using that failed this time, correct the husbandry immediately and hope for the best. I hope your little one comes out of this unscathed.

Update: I freaked out cause I thought that's her organs lol but when I tried to kinda poke her, she lift her butt up n it's part of the substrate.

Also maybe don't poke her... Especially if she's stressed/possibly injured.

 

[Death the sling]

That enclosure looks seriously too wet. They do need moist substrate, but yours looks soaking wet and that is not a good idea. I further would bury the water dish a bit so that it is level with the substrate - it makes it much easier for the tarantula to drink. If the dish is as high as yours they have to do some serious spider acrobatics to drink from it.

Okay I will, thank you.