Tarantula Won’t Get Down From Mesh Lid

[Renduren]

So I got a 4 in. Arizona Blonde a couple of days ago, and long story short she’s in a little tank with a mesh lid at the moment. I know mesh is known to produce stuck tarantulas, but it’s the only enclosure I was able to provide at the time, and my plan was to keep her in there for the couple of days I’d need to put together a nice enclosure for her. I assumed since she’s terrestrial she wouldn’t be savvy on climbing all over the lid, but I was wrong, and now she’s just walking around the lid like it’s substrate. I plan on putting tape around the inside to prevent this from happening again, but she’s just very comfy on the mesh and I can’t get her down. The lid slides out so I cant lift it up and flip her right side up. I don’t think the fall would kill her, but I know she can lose a leg/legs if she gets stuck. How should I go about getting her to climb down? She’s been exclusively walking around the lid for hours now.

 

[Tangled]

Open the lid slightly, let her crawl out and into a catch cup, fix your tank back up, then put her back in.

 

[Tenebrarius]

use scientific name or you'll get sarcastic flack, i mean I said pink bloom once and it was over like geez I was just too lazy to type pamphobeteus platyomma. So aphonopelma chalcodes is called that so I'll assume that. the sub looks dry, wet sub makes my desert species mad, but I keep it in a plastic box so...a fall is still a fall I'd add a bit more sub sometimes that makes them climb, my P platyomma was climbing everywhere when It had too much vertical space. also reptile cages are in general not set up well for Ts i mean screens and no side vents pfft. And not to mention drilling glass can be tricky business for some. so to get your T off get a capture cup put it in and put it back on the bedding.

 

[viper69]

Or just use letters for Ts, like the GBB.

 

[antinous]

use scientific name or you'll get sarcastic flack, i mean I said pink bloom once and it was over like geez I was just too lazy to type pamphobeteus platyomma.

There are multiple common names for some species, I can’t count how many times people have called a variety of Pamphobeteus species ‘pink bloom’. Practicing the use of scientific names is great as you would avoid any confusion what so ever.

 

[Tenebrarius]

There are multiple common names for some species, I can’t count how many times people have called a variety of Pamphobeteus species ‘pink bloom’. Practicing the use of scientific names is great as you would avoid any confusion what so ever.

I agree I was trying to be funny should have put an emote I definitely understand why to use scientific names...RIP my dreams of being a comedian(joke) its actually not hard to remember the names cause you just put "P." to simplify the genus then just the species name pie of cake. also not all people speak the egnsih and the scientific names are universal. now I need to go tend to my WHITE KNEE ZEBRA RED BABOON ORNAMENTAL PINK TOE tarantula.

 

[Mirandarachnid]

If you slowly slide the lid out, it'll bump her legs and she'll move (not sure which direction she'll go, I'll leave you to that.)

It looks like the substrate could stand to be tamped down a little more. That may be why your T is sticking to the lid, they hate walking on surfaces that shift under them.