Came back from a holiday in France today, after doing a bit of unpacking I decided to go check my spider room as I had a theraphosa apophysis sub adult female due to moult, as I opened the door I was shocked to see a shelf had collapsed from the wall which contained 3 glass tanks & 1 plastic tub, of which housed 1 smithi ( red knee juv female ) 1 geniculata ( white knee juv female ) 1 apophysis ( goliath pink toe juv female ) 1 scolopendra subspinipes centipede pedeling ( luckilly this was still intact with lid on ) after a good look around the room which contained a massive mound of various substrate all over a cream carpet ( the other half was very very annoyed ) I found the smithi on the door, the white knee had burrowed into the substrate, & the apophysis under a cupboard unit but had substained a very nasty split to her abdomen which I tried to repair but does not look good & I feel she will not survive until the next moult which is not too far away, to say I am annoyed with myself for allowing this to happen is an understatement & I will try to upload a few pics of the injured spider later, damn ! just what I needed after returning from holiday.
*** Pics as promised **** Update, repair patch looks to have dried ( cornflour & superglue patch to rip ) spider has fed on small insect. Not going to feed much incase it adds any stress to abdomen with slight stretching etc, this is the easy part, the hard part will come at moult as the rip was very deep to inner tissue causing stomach contents to leak.
Also many thanks to all for kind comments, it shows how much we put into this hobby & how it feels when disaster strikes.
*** Pics as promised **** Update, repair patch looks to have dried ( cornflour & superglue patch to rip ) spider has fed on small insect. Not going to feed much incase it adds any stress to abdomen with slight stretching etc, this is the easy part, the hard part will come at moult as the rip was very deep to inner tissue causing stomach contents to leak.
Also many thanks to all for kind comments, it shows how much we put into this hobby & how it feels when disaster strikes.
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Thats happened to me with a couple cages, but luckily I was able to get the t's out of their substrate before it buried them alive.
