Possibly dead Pink toe Tarantula

[Spooderman90]

I bought a baby Pink toe on 12/31/18. They told me it was young and female. She was healthy and acting great until her first molt 2 weeks ago. Shortly after she stopped eating and acted weird, then one night she was curled up on her stomach. I was informed it was a death curl and was told to put it in a shallow water dish with a little water to rehydrate it. It’s been there for 2 weeks now and still hasn’t moved. Should I pronounce her dead or try something else?

 

[Michael Guirov]

Did it have access to water after the molt?

Youll need to upload pictures of the T and enclosure for others to advise.

The "ICU" method likely made the situation much worse unfortunately

Id remove it from there and drop water onto its mouth parts with a pipette

 

[Spooderman90]

I had a full clean water dish in there at all times.
After she finished molting and recovering I was going to change the substrate into something made for spiders and add a few more hide outs,but unfortunately I never got the chance.

 

[Michael Guirov]

The enclosure is set up for a terrestrial unfortunately, Avics are 100% arboreal.
But for now id flip it over and try dropping water onto its mouth parts and see if that helps at all.
It looks like that T is already gone though im afraid.
Was there a heat matt or lamp by any chance?

Read the care sheets on here regarding "avicularia care" for how to set up the enclosure in the future though.

Aside from the water dish there isent really anything correct about the set up as far as I can see. Im sure others will advise on the proper set up though,
But the log needs to be vertical against one side and the plant around the top for a start.

Hope the T pulls through but it dosent look good

 

[Spooderman90]

Yeah I had plans on completely re doing the set up but I never got the chance before she started doing this. Thank you.

 

[Clareesi]

Yeah, that spider is dead.

 

[jrh3]

The enclosure is set up for a terrestrial unfortunately, Avics are 100% arboreal.
But for now id flip it over and try dropping water onto its mouth parts and see if that helps at all.
It looks like that T is already gone though im afraid.
Was there a heat matt or lamp by any chance?

Read the care sheets on here regarding "avicularia care" for how to set up the enclosure in the future though.

Aside from the water dish there isent really anything correct about the set up as far as I can see. Im sure others will advise on the proper set up though,
But the log needs to be vertical against one side and the plant around the top for a start.

Hope the T pulls through but it dosent look good

This isn’t even a setup for terrestrials, this is a snake setup. Everything about it is wrong.

Yeah I had plans on completely re doing the set up but I never got the chance before she started doing this. Thank you.

That is a dead Spider, before you get another one please do alot of reading here on the forum. You can learn alot of good info, dont listen to anyone at the petstore you got it from. If you have a question about anything there are alot of people here willing to help your next experience be better.

 

[Michael Guirov]

This isn’t even a setup for terrestrials, this is a snake setup. Everything about it is wrong.

Yeah definitely, I was being a little loose with the term

 

[cold blood]

Yeah I had plans on completely re doing the set up but I never got the chance before she started doing this. Thank you.

Always, and I cant stress this enough, ALWAYS have a proper set up BEFORE buying any animal. What you did was like buying a salamander and keeping it on dry sand until you could get the right set up....meanwhile it died.

Literally nothing about the set up is even remotely acceptable for an Avic. Avics are not very forgiving to poor conditions.

Yeah, that spider is dead.

It sure is.

 

[NYAN]

Wow.

This is an arboreal species. As others have said, this is a simply awful setup for any tarantula.

If the pet store told you this is an acceptable setup, then they totally misled you. Otherwise, you completely failed to research the proper care. Even following a bad care sheet would yield something better. Also, after 2 weeks wouldn’t it start to smell?!

 

[Paul1126]

The enclosure is set up for a terrestrial unfortunately,

This enclosure setup is not suitable for any T

 

[Michael Guirov]

This enclosure setup is not suitable for any T

Obviously, just making a simple distinction between terrestrial and arboreal animals in general, a distinction the op clearly had no idea even existed.

 

[Vanisher]

This is why i wrote the post couple a weeks ago that people has to do research before they buy a spider! You should have redone the tank emidiatly after you bought it! Did the petstore owner said that this was a proper set up?
If he did he was clueless!

 

[JSgrewit42]

Wow.

This is an arboreal species. As others have said, this is a simply awful setup for any tarantula.

If the pet store told you this is an acceptable setup, then they totally misled you. Otherwise, you completely failed to research the proper care. Even following a bad care sheet would yield something better. Also, after 2 weeks wouldn’t it start to smell?!

I have to many Avics just because my local pet store houses them in awful small terrestrial set ups. I can’t help but to buy the ones they have and save them...

If anyone needs an avic I have to many lol!!!! Don’t even get me started on how they label them completely wrong. Avic Metallica mixed up with A Avics. Even a versicolor with an “ A avic” tag. It’s very sad.

 

[Teal]

I have to many Avics just because my local pet store houses them in awful small terrestrial set ups. I can’t help but to buy the ones they have and save them...

So what you mean is, you are single-handedly ensuring they continue to get Avics because you keep buying them

And if you want to send me some, I'll accept them.