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As mentioned last month, there was some rehousing coming my way:
* C. fimbriatus MM "Ares", out of his enclosure into something smaller
This went, well...considering the species "pretty smoothly". If I leave the slapping, hissing and 6x times he bit the straw out of the ordeal. Kidding aside, yes he was defensive (as suspected), but nowhere as bad as I thought he'd be. He was more interested to run away, which ended in a "happy chase-around" in the bathroom with the occasional stop and threat-posture fangs bare. Captured him after maybe 30sec where he behaved as his name says All in all interesting, but easy enough since I knew what was coming my way .
* P. cambridgei AF "Moriko", out of her enclosure into the former (big enough) enclosure of "Ares" (newly set up)
Considering she has had a rough time over the past year with first loosing a pedipalp, then molting and regenerating the lost limb but in the process loosing the other...I wanted her out of the huge enclosure also to keep a better eye on her. She's now in a braplast box setup for her needs, with her beloved corkbark-tube. I'm hoping once she settles in, nature runs its course and she gets better with the next molt. As far as rehousing goes, she surprised me by giving me a nice threat-posture and then being stubborn like crazy with no defensiveness whatsoever. Took me 15min to get her out of her enclosure because she played rock and whenever I carefully tried to gently "shove" her into the catchcup she did the 180° and up the wall. All in all very easy transfer, just dealing with a stubborn spider. That, in itself, told me better than anything else that she isn't well currently. That particular girl was always majorly defensive and had no trouble to slap and bite all the time. Here's hope she'll get better soon!
* P. fasciata female "Takhisis", out of her too small enclosure into the one "Moriko" inhabited before
This was probably the easiest part. Despite the fact that this girl is usually hell-on-legs and tries to slap and bite immediately whenever disturbed, today she was extremely mellow and only hid, then played rock. Same thing as with my P. subfusca over a year ago: Had to literally scoop her carefully up with the tongs and place her into the catchcup. Went for the easy way from there by simply putting the catchcup in the new enclosure and gently prodding her out (there's a hole on the bottom of said cup for exactly that purpose) - guess what? She walked calmly out and is now examining her new digs.
Bottom line: Mission successfull! No casualties on either side...and it was exciting getting a chance to interact with some animals again observe their behavior during the transfers.
I don't know why exactly, but I guess considering I did all those transfers about an hour ago (2pm) here, all of the animals involved were (while not cooperating exactly) not behaving badly. Except for "Ares" (who I knew wouldn't go easy haha!) the stubbornness of those girls was rather cute
Next stop - probably rehousing my freshly on the last weekend molted P. miranda female.
Oh...and pictures will follow the next weekend I think.
* C. fimbriatus MM "Ares", out of his enclosure into something smaller
This went, well...considering the species "pretty smoothly". If I leave the slapping, hissing and 6x times he bit the straw out of the ordeal. Kidding aside, yes he was defensive (as suspected), but nowhere as bad as I thought he'd be. He was more interested to run away, which ended in a "happy chase-around" in the bathroom with the occasional stop and threat-posture fangs bare. Captured him after maybe 30sec where he behaved as his name says All in all interesting, but easy enough since I knew what was coming my way .
* P. cambridgei AF "Moriko", out of her enclosure into the former (big enough) enclosure of "Ares" (newly set up)
Considering she has had a rough time over the past year with first loosing a pedipalp, then molting and regenerating the lost limb but in the process loosing the other...I wanted her out of the huge enclosure also to keep a better eye on her. She's now in a braplast box setup for her needs, with her beloved corkbark-tube. I'm hoping once she settles in, nature runs its course and she gets better with the next molt. As far as rehousing goes, she surprised me by giving me a nice threat-posture and then being stubborn like crazy with no defensiveness whatsoever. Took me 15min to get her out of her enclosure because she played rock and whenever I carefully tried to gently "shove" her into the catchcup she did the 180° and up the wall. All in all very easy transfer, just dealing with a stubborn spider. That, in itself, told me better than anything else that she isn't well currently. That particular girl was always majorly defensive and had no trouble to slap and bite all the time. Here's hope she'll get better soon!
* P. fasciata female "Takhisis", out of her too small enclosure into the one "Moriko" inhabited before
This was probably the easiest part. Despite the fact that this girl is usually hell-on-legs and tries to slap and bite immediately whenever disturbed, today she was extremely mellow and only hid, then played rock. Same thing as with my P. subfusca over a year ago: Had to literally scoop her carefully up with the tongs and place her into the catchcup. Went for the easy way from there by simply putting the catchcup in the new enclosure and gently prodding her out (there's a hole on the bottom of said cup for exactly that purpose) - guess what? She walked calmly out and is now examining her new digs.
Bottom line: Mission successfull! No casualties on either side...and it was exciting getting a chance to interact with some animals again observe their behavior during the transfers.
I don't know why exactly, but I guess considering I did all those transfers about an hour ago (2pm) here, all of the animals involved were (while not cooperating exactly) not behaving badly. Except for "Ares" (who I knew wouldn't go easy haha!) the stubbornness of those girls was rather cute
Next stop - probably rehousing my freshly on the last weekend molted P. miranda female.
Oh...and pictures will follow the next weekend I think.