Thai Tiger trouble..

[abryan1992]

I acquired one over the past couple weeks, and I haven't been successful in finding information on how i keep him. I just kept him at normal room temperature, normal humidity. Well apparently this isn't correct since I now have him in an ICU ):

How do I keep this T?? Humidity? Temp? Wet substrate, bone-dry substrate?? Please and thank you!!

 

[spiderengineer]

I acquired one over the past couple weeks, and I haven't been successful in finding information on how i keep him. I just kept him at normal room temperature, normal humidity. Well apparently this isn't correct since I now have him in an ICU ):

How do I keep this T?? Humidity? Temp? Wet substrate, bone-dry substrate?? Please and thank you!!

the only thai tiger I am aware the ones that are of the haplopelma genus. you could give us a picture of it we can ID it for you and maybe see if something is wrong with it, but I am going on the assumption you are referring to a haploplema. in which case they are burrowers so substrate depth is the most important thing. temp is the typical range for most tropical species 70-80 F. they like it on the humid side, but its not life or death to have it a little dry as long as you have water for it if its need some. I usually use peat moss for substrate it good burrowing material and hold water well. i usually saturate the sub for a day before introducing them in their enclosure and then maybe soak the water once it dry, which could take a couple of months to happen.

 

[abryan1992]

Thank you that really helps. I don't want to take a picture because hes in the ICU and I don't want to bother him. But i have an old thread I started about him and his picture is in there. But I definitely dont have enough substrate so Ill add some more and hope he starts to burrow.

 

[spiderengineer]

so i remember that thread like we said that was a mature male and its very possible its in its last moments hence why you are having trouble with it. not to mention it won't burrow because its only drive at this point is to mate.

 

[abryan1992]

That's unfortunate ): I just bought him not too long ago. Win some lose some I guess!

 

[spiderengineer]

That's unfortunate ): I just bought him not too long ago. Win some lose some I guess!

mature males have a much shorter life span then their female counter parts mainly between one year or two years after maturity. That's why they are only desirable for breeding purposes for that reason. since you bought it at an expo you have know idea when it mature. so the logical assumption would be that its on its last leg of his life.

 

[BenH]

I have 4 Thai tiger slings.They are in my opinion
hardy spiders.I have kept them from dry to moist,
they seem to do well either way.

 

[McGuiverstein]

I have heard Thai Tiger used as the common name for Cyriopagopus paganus also. If the OP has a C. paganus instead of a Haplopelma sp., I'm thinking he would need an arboreal setup (if it's like the C. schioedtei). Whenever I've looked, I've never found any legitimate caresheets on the paganus, so I'm not 100% on this. But, as said, if his spider is a MM, unfortunately it's days are numbered anyway . What does everyone else think?

 

[spiderengineer]

I have heard Thai Tiger used as the common name for Cyriopagopus paganus also. If the OP has a C. paganus instead of a Haplopelma sp., I'm thinking he would need an arboreal setup (if it's like the C. schioedtei). Whenever I've looked, I've never found any legitimate caresheets on the paganus, so I'm not 100% on this. But, as said, if his spider is a MM, unfortunately it's days are numbered anyway . What does everyone else think?

in another thread he ask to id this T and everyone agreed that it was a MM haplopelma but we just could not ID the species because all Haplopelma males look the same

 

[McGuiverstein]

in another thread he ask to id this T and everyone agreed that it was a MM haplopelma but we just could not ID the species because all Haplopelma males look the same

Oh ok. My bad, I hadn't seen that thread. Sorry about that.

 

[spiderengineer]

Oh ok. My bad, I hadn't seen that thread. Sorry about that.

no need to be sorry