FormaPhobbie
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Sorry very new to posting on this sort of forum!
anyway disclaimer out the way… onto the post.
We (hubby and I) rehoused my T Sele today and it seems to have gone well. This seems to be down to the fact that we made sure we transferred the trap door webbing with the spider. She (we hope she is a she), is now happily ensconced in her ‘old’ trap door which seems to have already been enhanced. I say already because she has only been in the new enclosure for about 6hrs.
We did this because on her previous rehousing we did not move her trap door over initially and she spent her time wandering around the enclose and not really settling down over several days. So we switched to a smaller enclosure but more critically added her old webbing/trap door. She went straight for it pretty much. I guess this suggests that she could recognise her old 'home' (pheromones?) and this made her feel safe.
i am guessing the same is true this time as well, although I am impressed she has already adapted and increased the size of the trapdoor. My husband said when he had checked her earlier she was feeling/chewing the cork bark near the web, so I guess she was already at work even then (literally under an hr after being rehomed)
i wonder if in the wild they wouldn’t typically make a new web trapdoor all that often and would mainly adapt it. It must take a fair amount of physical resources to produce a whole new trapdoor? This is speculation obviously so it would be interesting to know what people think.
As I said, I am new to this, so it might be standard practice/obvious, to transfer trap doors where possible, but I would like to know if other keepers have done the same, or if this is useful or interesting.
thank you
Nicky
p.s. I can post pictures of what we did, but simply put it involved the old bit of cork bark and a hot glue gun.
anyway disclaimer out the way… onto the post.
We (hubby and I) rehoused my T Sele today and it seems to have gone well. This seems to be down to the fact that we made sure we transferred the trap door webbing with the spider. She (we hope she is a she), is now happily ensconced in her ‘old’ trap door which seems to have already been enhanced. I say already because she has only been in the new enclosure for about 6hrs.
We did this because on her previous rehousing we did not move her trap door over initially and she spent her time wandering around the enclose and not really settling down over several days. So we switched to a smaller enclosure but more critically added her old webbing/trap door. She went straight for it pretty much. I guess this suggests that she could recognise her old 'home' (pheromones?) and this made her feel safe.
i am guessing the same is true this time as well, although I am impressed she has already adapted and increased the size of the trapdoor. My husband said when he had checked her earlier she was feeling/chewing the cork bark near the web, so I guess she was already at work even then (literally under an hr after being rehomed)
i wonder if in the wild they wouldn’t typically make a new web trapdoor all that often and would mainly adapt it. It must take a fair amount of physical resources to produce a whole new trapdoor? This is speculation obviously so it would be interesting to know what people think.
As I said, I am new to this, so it might be standard practice/obvious, to transfer trap doors where possible, but I would like to know if other keepers have done the same, or if this is useful or interesting.
thank you
Nicky
p.s. I can post pictures of what we did, but simply put it involved the old bit of cork bark and a hot glue gun.
you are supposed to transfer their trap with them. I think many sellers include them and usually advise as such. I would imagine they would anyway, to set the T up for success/prevent a failure to thrive situation.
) is appreciative.