T.Kahlenbergi

[norma1106]

So I’ve got a T.Kahlenbergi sling had it around a month.
She’s growing rapidly and has started kicking hairs and squirts poop after kicking hairs lol.
is this usual behaviour for a Kahlenbergi? It shocked me when she aimed her butt and squirted at the bit of mealworm I offered her lol. Many thanks xx

 

[quirinus]

well mine doesn't do that but that is nothing to worry about, if your setup and care are correct (proper hide, enough sub, ..). it just got temperament.
kahlenbergi seem to tend to have a little more "temperament" then other Tliltocatl (at least that is my experience).
my kahlenbergi is the heaviest burrower in my collection, outplaying fussorials like my P muticus. so give it a lot of sub.

 

[norma1106]

Thank you
Yeah got plenty of substrate, put moss in too for her . Got the temperature correct humidity etc etc. Just a very crazy sling lol. She’s in premolt at the moment not eaten for a few weeks fat abdomen too.
Yeah burrows and hides loads
It was the aiming her butt and squirting poop at the mealworm bit that shocked me lol xx

This is how she looks xx

Covered the hide with miss too now xx

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Hair-kicking is normal, with the Brachypelma and Tliltocatl species it's basically a case of "flip a coin to see if you get a hair-kicker or not".

Arboreals are known for shooting streams of faeces at threats, I was today years old when I first heard of a terrestrial doing it

That first pic you posted is very heavy pre-moult (darkened/shiny abdomen & darkened legs, it'll moult any day now, pic below is my P. auratus hours before he moulted).

 

[norma1106]

She molted last night.
but yeah confused me with the poop throwing, I know they kick hairs but can’t find anything about a terrestrial squirting poop at something lol