Temperament: Nervous

[lalachill]

Can anyone describe the behavior of a nervous T?
I have a B. klaasi sling which is acting very weird. just kept on running around when i open the enclosure. Then stops when its left alone. I dunno if it sick or not or its just plain nervous. So, can anyone describe this behavior?

 

[Mushroom Spore]

Nervous:
# easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred"
# anxious: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind"
# skittish: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
# Easily agitated or alarmed; Apprehensive or anxious; Relating to or affecting the nerves

 

[Kris-wIth-a-K]

What spore was trying to say in "T Terms," is that a nervous T will be skittish (which all are if disturbed) will run, kick hairs, act out of the norm. Pretty standard..

Kris

 

[lalachill]

Were there a case of a less than an inch sling that had a dyskinetic syndrome? Because the way my T ran around is weird. When he ran he stops for a moment and do weird stuff in its front legs...
I just hope its not sic or anything.:?

 

[Mushroom Spore]

When he ran he stops for a moment and do weird stuff in its front legs...

We can't tell you if it's sick or not unless you describe what it's doing.

 

[lalachill]

We can't tell you if it's sick or not unless you describe what it's doing.

I know... i need to video cam it... but its small.. ill find a way to take it if its still behave strangely. thanks!

 

[ReMoVeR]

I know... i need to video cam it... but its small.. ill find a way to take it if its still behave strangely. thanks!

try and search on youtube and compare tou your T.

//Tiago

 

[cacoseraph]

are you using a "cage-is-burrow" setup? do you have a relatively small cage in which there is not a seperate burrow, retreat, or hide that the spider can use? i think that some spiders treat their whole cage as a burrow and are more inclined to "freak out" when you are essentially peeling their burrow open every time you open the cage.

 

[Autumnvicky]

Tuck it's legs close to it's body defensively, squirt white poop at you, legs rub it's butt to flick hairs at you, hisses, darts away, strikes at you, rears up with it's legs in the air, I noticed my A. Avic make the hairs on it's abdomen fluff up/stick up more since she's a species that has to press the hairs into you. She was waiting for me to accidentally touch her back so she could stick me with the hairs.

 

[AzJohn]

Can anyone describe the behavior of a nervous T?
I have a B. klaasi sling which is acting very weird. just kept on running around when i open the enclosure. Then stops when its left alone. I dunno if it sick or not or its just plain nervous. So, can anyone describe this behavior?

Sounds like a B klaasi to me. I've got two 4+ inch females they still act the same.

John

 

[lalachill]

Tuck it's legs close to it's body defensively, squirt white poop at you, legs rub it's butt to flick hairs at you, hisses, darts away, strikes at you, rears up with it's legs in the air, I noticed my A. Avic make the hairs on it's abdomen fluff up/stick up more since she's a species that has to press the hairs into you. She was waiting for me to accidentally touch her back so she could stick me with the hairs.

Whew, so its not sick.... What you've mentioned is exactly what it did when I opened its enclosure.... hehe... thanks guys