Nhandu tripepii sluggish and unresponsive

[Cemykay]

My little Nhandu tripepii girl hangs out on the ventilation grille since yesterday and is very sluggish and unresponsive to a paintbrush or vibrations. She ate two days ago and was acting normal. It has around 33 Celsius in my city but she has a full waterdish, medium damp substrate to get her moisture and a burrow if she wants to hide. Is it to hot for her or could it be something else? All my other tarantulas don´t show any difference in behaviour.

 

[DaveM]

33 C is not hot enough to harm them.
I think people will want more information. Is this is a confirmed female? You use store-bought, captive-bred feeders, and did you feed your other spiders from the same batch of feeders?
Could the spider have sustained a fall? Your terrarium looks very beautiful, but you can expect people here to tell you to add more substrate to shorten the height that a spider could fall.

 

[Cemykay]

33 C is not hot enough to harm them.
I think people will want more information. Is this is a confirmed female? You use store-bought, captive-bred feeders, and did you feed your other spiders from the same batch of feeders?
Could the spider have sustained a fall? Your terrarium looks very beautiful, but you can expect people here to tell you to add more substrate to shorten the height that a spider could fall.

Yes it is a confirmed female, i feed all of my spiders red runners and dubia roaches from my own colony. The enclosure is 20cm in height and has about 6cm substrate at the front and 12-13cm at the back.

 

[Arachnid Addicted]

This looks like a mature male.

 

[Cemykay]

This looks like a mature.

This video is a few weeks old. Why do you think it´s a male?

 

[Arachnid Addicted]

This video is a few weeks old. Why do you think it´s a male?

Sorry, palps in the pictured tricked me.

 

[Cemykay]

Sorry, palps in the pictured tricked me.

a friend of mine was suspicious at the claim of the seller aswell, looked on the spermathecae and confirmed the sex of her. So i would be very surprised if she is acutally a he.

 

[Cemykay]

It doesn't look good

 

[Dorifto]

Looks bad, sorry, there is any possibility that he/se could be injured? do you see any sign of injury? you said that the T passed all day in the grill, there is a possibility of dehydration since from that mesh enters the "fresh (33º in your case) " air and exits from the top, but that´s a rare possibility, is more likely to be injured from falling.

 

[BillsSpider]

Any chance she was climbing and fell? I'm certainly no expert but that position doesn't look good

 

[Vanessa]

You can try placing her over the water dish to see if she wants a drink, but she doesn't look dehydrated. I am also concerned that she could have suffered a fall and has sustained an injury.

 

[Cemykay]

You can try placing her over the water dish to see if she wants a drink, but she doesn't look dehydrated. I am also concerned that she could have suffered a fall and has sustained an injury.

She is now in a seperate container with some water to drink from. I checked on her Abdomen but could not see a rupture, just a wet spot on her spinerettes. I put some flour on the spot in case it is a open wound.

 

[Dorifto]

News?

 

[Cemykay]

She unfortunatley passed away over night

 

[Dorifto]

Sorry to hear that

 

[Baby T]

Sorry for your loss Cemykay

 

[EpicEpic]

Dang! Sorry.

 

[Ic4ru577]

My condolences

 

[Smotzer]

Sorry for your loss.