Tarantula Dead or Molting?

[TrentinG]

hmmm.... one of the reasons i downt own a rosea ;P haha jk. but they are very odd....

 

[tarantulagirl10]

really really weird

 

[Toogledoo]

Lol that's hilarious.

 

[GriffinSmith]

I had an E. murinus do the exactsame thing in its water dish. I moved it and it was fine, I think it was just swimming.

 

[zonbonzovi]

At first I thought that she had crawled to the top of the tank and fell(upside down & stunned), but to do it again?

Had a large Haplo try to molt in a water dish, but it didn't end well. She made it out to about 1/2 way up the femurs then...stopped. She is a 'freezer pet' now...scares the hell out of guests looking for ice cubes:evil:

 

[Embers To Ashes]

you have no idea how funny I find this. I would just suck up the water like you did before and tell her to stop throwing wild partys with the house spiders while your not home.

and is it just me or do her palps look balled up in the most recent pic... are you sure she is a female and is 12-14 like you said?

 

[Formerphobe]

She is a 'freezer pet' now...scares the hell out of guests looking for ice cubes

S'alright, my keyboard needed cleaning anyway...

Definitely a clean spider you have there. Could she have some sort of external parasite that she is trying to rid herself of?

 

[vickywild]

Thats..so weird!

 

[TheChunkster]

Not going to attach a picture on this one. I moved her like a week ago. She was fine but kept pressing herself up against the glass and was struggling for balance at first, but has since been okay. Today, I found her in her EMPTY water dish, upside down. Her legs have curled into a death curl for sure and hemolymph has been coming from her mouth. She does have a bald spot on her abdomen. She is very stationary now in that position and will not move much. Is she molting, or dying? Do they normally molt in the upside down "death curl" position. If a photo is needed I can supply one, but the details pretty much describe it fittingly. What should I do for her?

 

[Hobo]

I would think a pic would be better than a description.

 

[TheChunkster]

Two more notes. Her abdomen is swelled and I just noticed more hemolymph coming from in-between her spinnerets.

 

[Embers To Ashes]

Is it possible she has fallen?

 

[TheChunkster]

Is it possible she has fallen?

Don't see how it is possible. She has nothing to fall off of. Unless flipping herself of her back counts?

 

[Meecht]

She could have been climbing the side of the tank. The fall may not have hurt her before because the water may have cushioned the fall, but also stunned her on impact. Without the water being in the dish this time, she would fall straight on the plastic which would provide no cushioning on impact.

This is just a theory, though.

 

[lunashimmer]

Meecht, I think you hit the nail on the head. I bet she was climbing the glass, fell, and landed in the water dish each time.

Chunkster--any update?

 

[MissChelly]

Any updates on this?

 

[SGT TWillis]

Updates

Just wondering if there have been any updates on this...

 

[ruca49]

This is simply amazing. There has to be a reason. I can't see her falling in the same place twice....

 

[Robin Da Hood]

You really think she needs that much water to drink? That is not a water dish for drinking...it's a swimming pool. Reduce the size of your "drinking dish" and see what she does.

 

[Collin Clary]

I think it was climbing the glass and it fell. My MM B. vagans fell into his waterdish a few times [on the last time he fell in he bent hid back leg to the side, so now his back leg looks like the letter L.(I actually thought he was dead as his legs were starting to curl in. Then when I touched him he attacked the tongs) If it survives, move the water dish to the center of the tank and away from the glass.