Rinfish
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- Feb 18, 2017
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Augh!
This guy is really a rollercoaster.
I'm posting a picture of his current enclosure because I need help. I was 100% certain my little D. medius was dead last night. I spray his enclosure to keep humidity up 2x a day (often I feel like I have to maintain it at 100% humidity with sopping wet conditions, even though they're supposed to be good at 80%), but I missed yesterday morning. I thought I had been spraying too much so didn't think much of it, checked on him later when i got home (6pm) and he was not only on the substrate, but curling up and tipping upside down/unable to walk. To me those were clear signals of a death throw so i took out his corkbark and sprayed the whole enclosure down like a monsoon in hopes that maybe he would be revived, but went to bed feeling defeated.
I wake up, and guess who is at the top of his enclosure, STILL ALIVE. I think as soon as the drops disappear from the glass of the enclosure, the humidity is too low, at least that's what i've gathered after seeing that there were still spots of wetness in other areas of his enclosure when this happened.
He currently gets a heat gradient from the temp controlled heatmat for my crested on the right side of his tank (set at 80). Hes sitting above the heatmat right now, near the top ventilation corner. It seems that his temps are usually around 67-70. I don't think i can increase them past that without getting him his own heatmat.
I taped off some of the front ventilation this morning, hoping that it will stay at this crazy humidity level throughout the day and i dont need to risk another near-death episode.
What am I doing wrong? Was it really humidity?
He ate, i would guess, 3 weeks ago. I put another small cricket in the night before all this went down, and i saw it alive/pretty sure it escaped when i removed his corkbark. Should I consider feeding him? Will it give him a boost? The petstore employee told me hers eat 1x a month, and any more than that might kill them.
If you guys want to avoid having to explain the a/b/c's of whipspider keeping (since i seem to be unable to get it right), any online resources that you feel are accurate/reliable would be really helpful as well. I've read a ton, but none of it seems to apply to this guy.
This guy is really a rollercoaster.
I'm posting a picture of his current enclosure because I need help. I was 100% certain my little D. medius was dead last night. I spray his enclosure to keep humidity up 2x a day (often I feel like I have to maintain it at 100% humidity with sopping wet conditions, even though they're supposed to be good at 80%), but I missed yesterday morning. I thought I had been spraying too much so didn't think much of it, checked on him later when i got home (6pm) and he was not only on the substrate, but curling up and tipping upside down/unable to walk. To me those were clear signals of a death throw so i took out his corkbark and sprayed the whole enclosure down like a monsoon in hopes that maybe he would be revived, but went to bed feeling defeated.
I wake up, and guess who is at the top of his enclosure, STILL ALIVE. I think as soon as the drops disappear from the glass of the enclosure, the humidity is too low, at least that's what i've gathered after seeing that there were still spots of wetness in other areas of his enclosure when this happened.
He currently gets a heat gradient from the temp controlled heatmat for my crested on the right side of his tank (set at 80). Hes sitting above the heatmat right now, near the top ventilation corner. It seems that his temps are usually around 67-70. I don't think i can increase them past that without getting him his own heatmat.
I taped off some of the front ventilation this morning, hoping that it will stay at this crazy humidity level throughout the day and i dont need to risk another near-death episode.
What am I doing wrong? Was it really humidity?
He ate, i would guess, 3 weeks ago. I put another small cricket in the night before all this went down, and i saw it alive/pretty sure it escaped when i removed his corkbark. Should I consider feeding him? Will it give him a boost? The petstore employee told me hers eat 1x a month, and any more than that might kill them.
If you guys want to avoid having to explain the a/b/c's of whipspider keeping (since i seem to be unable to get it right), any online resources that you feel are accurate/reliable would be really helpful as well. I've read a ton, but none of it seems to apply to this guy.
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