Need help with rehouse

[Jonathan6303]

Two questions
1. Should I rehouse my 2 inch haploclastus devamatha from a 32 oz deli to a 6 x 6 x 7 in. enclosure or should I wait
2. If I should rehouse, how do I rehouse a tarantula from a enclosure with deep damp substrate.

 

[kingshockey]

tom moran has a rehouse video of one of these

 

[JonnyTorch]

I'd keep it in the deli cup until it is around 3" then rehouse into bigger than 6x6. That's just me.

I've had much luck with holding a deli cup or countainer on top of their burrows, and slowly flooding the floor of the enclosure until their burrows are flooded, and they will sit on top. Then coax it into a transport container and then from that transport container/cup to the new home.

This way I've never had to do much digging around. I just did this again Friday. I had a MM E. murinus in 8" deep damp substrate and it came to the top and I held a deli on the entrance and used tongs to slowly poke the back of the burrow and it walked right in. Flood it slowly so the spider can make its way to the top without bolting or freaking out. I've done this multiple times with different species and worked in 5 min each time. Did this with Fimbriatus and with OBT and a few others.

 

[Smotzer]

Slowly and carefully remove substrate from all around till you get to the bottom of its burrow and then remove it. I find this to be the easiest method for me

 

[BoyFromLA]

Hope this would help you:

Haploclastus devamatha housing experiment

This is a continuity of my previous post [The link to that previous post] about Haploclastus devamatha, but with a slightly different approach. Recap: Unlike other fossorial tarantulas, Haploclastus devamatha builds a turret like burrow. It will highly likely to use majority of materials from...

arachnoboards.com

 

[Jonathan6303]

Successful rehouse. She was growing a bit big for her old house

 

[viper69]

I always surrounded by burrowing OWs with something I could find and literally scoop them out.

 

[l4nsky]

I'd keep it in the deli cup until it is around 3" then rehouse into bigger than 6x6. That's just me.

I've had much luck with holding a deli cup or countainer on top of their burrows, and slowly flooding the floor of the enclosure until their burrows are flooded, and they will sit on top. Then coax it into a transport container and then from that transport container/cup to the new home.

This way I've never had to do much digging around. I just did this again Friday. I had a MM E. murinus in 8" deep damp substrate and it came to the top and I held a deli on the entrance and used tongs to slowly poke the back of the burrow and it walked right in. Flood it slowly so the spider can make its way to the top without bolting or freaking out. I've done this multiple times with different species and worked in 5 min each time. Did this with Fimbriatus and with OBT and a few others.

Have you had a bad experience with the flood technique yet, like the tarantula won't come to the surface until it needs air or anything like that? I've always avoided this technique because it always seemed to skew more risk than reward. After all, when you got the tarantula's enclosure flooded and it hasn't come up to the top, you're basically back to square one, only this time with an aquarium instead of a terrarium lol.

I've started to reconsider it going forward as I expand more and more outside of arboreal species purely because of the old BTS article that @Theraphosid Research Team posted a few months ago in regards to the 'haplotank' enclosure design (https://arachnoboards.com/threads/s...heir-so-called-haplotanks.353694/post-3269326). Since that design incorporates low ventilation along the bottom of the enclosure and well below the substrate level, they effectively become drain holes at the same time. In fact, it seems dunking the whole enclosure every few months to rehydrate the substrate doesn't faze the specimens and is a key feature of the design. Anyways, I guess in theory one could simply dunk the haplotank and if the tarantula doesn't exit the burrow, one could simply pull it out of the water to drain and try another method.

 

[JonnyTorch]

@l4nsky I've yet to have a bad experience doing it. I've done it about 4 or 5 times so far. From the times I have done it, I have done it slowly as to not spook or terrify the spider. Slowly adding water to it makes them come up further to the top of the burrow slowly to avoid the water. I've seen this technique on YT and the guys just pour water in like a waterfall and then the T gets skittish and even can go under the water for a brief period as it is scared and retreating, but when I've done it slowly, the T slowly just comes out.