MontePython
Arachnosquire
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- Feb 13, 2020
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Well. Due to the rule of "Sometimes Stuff Happens" I am currently sitting on an empty arboreal enclosure (an adapted 3L braplast).
The previous occupant was a P. gigas I raised up from a 1cm sling who wouldn't eat and who more than quadrupled in size over winter, only to mysteriously die on me this weekend. I'm honestly kind of gutted because I was really proud of how he was doing, and he was acting normally up until he wasn't (abruptly found him on his back on Saturday evening - he had moulted only two weeks prior, and by Sunday afternoon he was gone).
I'm probably not going to refill the enclosure immediately because I need a little time to digest but for now I'm thinking about it to kind of cope.
As much as I'd love to get another P. gigas about the same size as him (because I don't really want to start from scratch right now), there's not anyone selling them above 1-2cm at the moment that I know of, so I was looking at other species, but honestly I don't have many arboreals - most of mine are terrestrials or fossorials, so I thought I'd ask for some recommendations for species and why you like them!
The arboreals I currently I have:
0.0.1 P. striata (~2in)
0.0.1 P. tigrinawesseli (~1.5in)
0.0.1 P. regalis (~0.78in)
0.0.1 Cyriopagopus/Omothymus sp. 'hati hati' (~0.78in) [this one was a surprise freebie, and at this stage is like...semi-arboreal - has a dirt funnel and burrow but also likes squeezing into hollow areas in the cork, which is standard for these guys apparently]
In the meanwhile, pour one out for Ziggy Stardust, the only one of my tarantulas my father truly loved (sorry about the HUGE glare - this one hasn't been cleaned up in photoshop)
The previous occupant was a P. gigas I raised up from a 1cm sling who wouldn't eat and who more than quadrupled in size over winter, only to mysteriously die on me this weekend. I'm honestly kind of gutted because I was really proud of how he was doing, and he was acting normally up until he wasn't (abruptly found him on his back on Saturday evening - he had moulted only two weeks prior, and by Sunday afternoon he was gone).
I'm probably not going to refill the enclosure immediately because I need a little time to digest but for now I'm thinking about it to kind of cope.
As much as I'd love to get another P. gigas about the same size as him (because I don't really want to start from scratch right now), there's not anyone selling them above 1-2cm at the moment that I know of, so I was looking at other species, but honestly I don't have many arboreals - most of mine are terrestrials or fossorials, so I thought I'd ask for some recommendations for species and why you like them!
The arboreals I currently I have:
0.0.1 P. striata (~2in)
0.0.1 P. tigrinawesseli (~1.5in)
0.0.1 P. regalis (~0.78in)
0.0.1 Cyriopagopus/Omothymus sp. 'hati hati' (~0.78in) [this one was a surprise freebie, and at this stage is like...semi-arboreal - has a dirt funnel and burrow but also likes squeezing into hollow areas in the cork, which is standard for these guys apparently]
In the meanwhile, pour one out for Ziggy Stardust, the only one of my tarantulas my father truly loved (sorry about the HUGE glare - this one hasn't been cleaned up in photoshop)