I wanted to know if anyone has more information about what is happening to me.
I have been with tarantulas for many years and have only seen anything like it once. I was travelling, a heat wave arrived where I lived, I had my lings in a large plastic box, that must had an oven effect and when I arrived many had died and others had neurological symptoms when moving.
But this is much more rare, I have received animals from 2 different owners but in the same shipment, all between 2 and 5 molts:
4 incei
5 h. pulchripes
5 blue fang
5 cyaneopubescens
5 irminia
3 electric blue
1 h. maculata
1 d. pentaloris
1 n. chromatus
The shipment arrived 3 days ago. It took 8 days to arrive from destiny, but almost all kept some humidity. All animals were in good condition.
The first day I was only able to place a few of them in their new terrariums, which moved like lightning. Within minutes the weaver species were already making webs. I was only able to feed a few, all of those ate, including the inceis.
The next day one of the inceis was almost dead, moving its legs strangely, there were remains of a half-eaten cockroach. I took her out and in a few minutes she was dead. I kept putting the remaining animals into their new terrariums and they all came out like lightning again. They all ate, from different cockroach species. The animals that I had transferred to their terrariums the first day and I had not been time to feed looked great, so I fed them to. I re-feed the remaining inceis.
Today I start to review and find:
The 3 remaining incei dead, with prey half consumed
2 irminias with trembling movements
2 cyaneopubescens with trembling movements and very bent legs, 1 have something white on the fangs that looks like remains of the prey
2 blue fangs with erratic movements
1 dead pulchripes with a grayish drop on the fangs and 2 with trembling movements and very bent legs
I don't understand anything. I talk to the guy who sent them and he tells me that in the area where he lives, a strong heat started right after sending them. Here we are at 26 - 28 C°. I know that questions about substrate, humidity are often asked... but I keep other animals and only these that came together have this problem. Coconut fiber and spraying as soon as they arrive at all. It looks like dysnetic syndrome. Simplifying the facts that I see that may have caused this:
They received strong heat a few days during shipment, this may have damaged them but they do not showed symptoms.
After weaving and hunting without problems, some begin to show symptoms next day and die, and some of them affected by the problem remain thin even with remains of the prey near.
Could it be that heat damaged them? And that they only show that when the stress caused by the prey triggers the symptoms? Seeing the sequence is what it seems but I don't see a los of sense in it.
Seeing this I don't know what I can do to help those who still survive with symptoms or if the others will start to show it. I don't know if anyone has any answers or information on this.
I have been with tarantulas for many years and have only seen anything like it once. I was travelling, a heat wave arrived where I lived, I had my lings in a large plastic box, that must had an oven effect and when I arrived many had died and others had neurological symptoms when moving.
But this is much more rare, I have received animals from 2 different owners but in the same shipment, all between 2 and 5 molts:
4 incei
5 h. pulchripes
5 blue fang
5 cyaneopubescens
5 irminia
3 electric blue
1 h. maculata
1 d. pentaloris
1 n. chromatus
The shipment arrived 3 days ago. It took 8 days to arrive from destiny, but almost all kept some humidity. All animals were in good condition.
The first day I was only able to place a few of them in their new terrariums, which moved like lightning. Within minutes the weaver species were already making webs. I was only able to feed a few, all of those ate, including the inceis.
The next day one of the inceis was almost dead, moving its legs strangely, there were remains of a half-eaten cockroach. I took her out and in a few minutes she was dead. I kept putting the remaining animals into their new terrariums and they all came out like lightning again. They all ate, from different cockroach species. The animals that I had transferred to their terrariums the first day and I had not been time to feed looked great, so I fed them to. I re-feed the remaining inceis.
Today I start to review and find:
The 3 remaining incei dead, with prey half consumed
2 irminias with trembling movements
2 cyaneopubescens with trembling movements and very bent legs, 1 have something white on the fangs that looks like remains of the prey
2 blue fangs with erratic movements
1 dead pulchripes with a grayish drop on the fangs and 2 with trembling movements and very bent legs
I don't understand anything. I talk to the guy who sent them and he tells me that in the area where he lives, a strong heat started right after sending them. Here we are at 26 - 28 C°. I know that questions about substrate, humidity are often asked... but I keep other animals and only these that came together have this problem. Coconut fiber and spraying as soon as they arrive at all. It looks like dysnetic syndrome. Simplifying the facts that I see that may have caused this:
They received strong heat a few days during shipment, this may have damaged them but they do not showed symptoms.
After weaving and hunting without problems, some begin to show symptoms next day and die, and some of them affected by the problem remain thin even with remains of the prey near.
Could it be that heat damaged them? And that they only show that when the stress caused by the prey triggers the symptoms? Seeing the sequence is what it seems but I don't see a los of sense in it.
Seeing this I don't know what I can do to help those who still survive with symptoms or if the others will start to show it. I don't know if anyone has any answers or information on this.