Sambro
Arachnosquire
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- Apr 30, 2021
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Good morning guys!
I thought I'd make a separate post and update everyone on the situation and how this may come to be.
**Keep in mind - I'm still a new keeper but I have done tons of research about care, and rehousing to feel confident and knowing what speeds and temperament from the species I'm dealing with. I always believe in educating rather than berating.
This is why I wanted to step in and help both with @AntJ and re-home these amazing T's. Which has been a complete success!
@AntJ originally brought these Poecilotheria Ornata at a Bug show in the south of east England around 1-2 years ago. These were sold to him and advised by the breeder that these spiders can be kept communally. When @AntJ brought these beautiful specimens they were just tiny slings and didn't expect them to be so big 2 years later and then left in a depth over his head.
This is maybe why these T's tolerated each other as they grew from slings?
In my eyes, reaching out to this forum was @AntJ's last attempt to find ways he can safely separate and rehouse these beautiful T's, due to them finally having enough of each other and beginning to fight.
When I went to visit, @AntJ had tons of amazing bugs, including a massive Hercules beetle still in its grub form!
He had already moved the smallest P.Ornata (I'm suspecting a female) of the 3 into a separate enclosure but was in a terrestrial setup.
Which left the two boisterous males left. When I arrived, I quickly got to work and began to separate the two males, which went perfectly without any bolting and threat postures.
After a quick cuppa tea to calm my nerves from the re-house, we decided on the following:
I will be taking all 3 P.Ornata to rehouse in more suitable enclosures and a decision that I would re-home the A.seemanni that was housed in an Abeoral setup.
That just left the OBT which I recommended to keep as it looked well looked after, other than being in the wrong enclosure. I then offered to come along next weekend and rehouse the OBT into terrestrial setup and advised to grab some more substrate ready for the re-house.
With 2 of the P.Ornata in temporary enclosures, we packed all 4 T's into my car, stepped in and made my hour trip back home. Finally getting back home at 10:30 pm.
Once again, I quickly got to work cleaning enclosures and setting up some new ones.
Summary!
All 3 of the T's have been rehoused into correct enclosures and I'll be grabbing some additional cork bark hides today for some extra cover.
Had one bolt on me though and ended up having a standoff trying to get him into a catch up to move into the new enclosure. Please see the photo of him on my wall. He's so pretty
I have rehoused the A.seemanni into a lovely enclosure but still have one left to rehouse from the original communal P.Ornata enclosure, which I'll be finishing tonight as I had to get some sleep after releasing I had been sorting these out till almost 1 am!
I have supplied photos to this post!
I thought I'd make a separate post and update everyone on the situation and how this may come to be.
**Keep in mind - I'm still a new keeper but I have done tons of research about care, and rehousing to feel confident and knowing what speeds and temperament from the species I'm dealing with. I always believe in educating rather than berating.
This is why I wanted to step in and help both with @AntJ and re-home these amazing T's. Which has been a complete success!
@AntJ originally brought these Poecilotheria Ornata at a Bug show in the south of east England around 1-2 years ago. These were sold to him and advised by the breeder that these spiders can be kept communally. When @AntJ brought these beautiful specimens they were just tiny slings and didn't expect them to be so big 2 years later and then left in a depth over his head.
This is maybe why these T's tolerated each other as they grew from slings?
In my eyes, reaching out to this forum was @AntJ's last attempt to find ways he can safely separate and rehouse these beautiful T's, due to them finally having enough of each other and beginning to fight.
When I went to visit, @AntJ had tons of amazing bugs, including a massive Hercules beetle still in its grub form!
He had already moved the smallest P.Ornata (I'm suspecting a female) of the 3 into a separate enclosure but was in a terrestrial setup.
Which left the two boisterous males left. When I arrived, I quickly got to work and began to separate the two males, which went perfectly without any bolting and threat postures.
After a quick cuppa tea to calm my nerves from the re-house, we decided on the following:
I will be taking all 3 P.Ornata to rehouse in more suitable enclosures and a decision that I would re-home the A.seemanni that was housed in an Abeoral setup.
That just left the OBT which I recommended to keep as it looked well looked after, other than being in the wrong enclosure. I then offered to come along next weekend and rehouse the OBT into terrestrial setup and advised to grab some more substrate ready for the re-house.
With 2 of the P.Ornata in temporary enclosures, we packed all 4 T's into my car, stepped in and made my hour trip back home. Finally getting back home at 10:30 pm.
Once again, I quickly got to work cleaning enclosures and setting up some new ones.
Summary!
All 3 of the T's have been rehoused into correct enclosures and I'll be grabbing some additional cork bark hides today for some extra cover.
Had one bolt on me though and ended up having a standoff trying to get him into a catch up to move into the new enclosure. Please see the photo of him on my wall. He's so pretty
I have rehoused the A.seemanni into a lovely enclosure but still have one left to rehouse from the original communal P.Ornata enclosure, which I'll be finishing tonight as I had to get some sleep after releasing I had been sorting these out till almost 1 am!
I have supplied photos to this post!
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