Today in the Spider Room?

[Mirandarachnid]

UH OH.
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B. Vagans exit strategy.

Yeah, I found her, but neither one of us was happy.

Man, they go from derpy little cutie-pie to ingrate runaway teenager in a single shed. So what did I do? The tarantula teenager equivalent of bringing her home in a police car and feeding her, of course. Thank God I found her before another pet ate her. Guess we'll be pushing up that new housing for her and several other insolent, awkward teens.

I love how the skull is making the "uh oh" face

 

[lostbrane]

Looks like the skeleton was just as shocked as you were.

Was filling up the water dish for my A. geniculata juvie. It decided that was a good time to try to explore the outside world. Was on the way out when I got my brush and tried to coax it back down. Tagged the brush then ran back down. Phew.

Definitely convinced me of the value of a water hole in the lid...

 

[InvertAddiction]

Anxiously waiting for my Lasiodora difficilis sling to molt lol.

 

[Dovey]

I've got the opposite going on right now. Everybody is suddenly molting and is getting too big for their sling jars. Got to figure out the housing for all of these teenagers! I'm sort of hoping we don't have another major molt for a few weeks. Sheesh.

 

[InvertAddiction]

@Dovey I'll gladly trade you haha. All my other slings molted but this one is just taking its sweet sweet time. Definitely not like my LPs I had rofl. Dollar Tree has some awesome containers for juvies, for both arboreal and terrestrial.

 

[Dovey]

I think I figured out how I got into trouble with my b vagans. For an assessment, check out my thoughts in the informational thread called "a few thoughts on B vagans temperament."

 

[draconisj4]

Rehouse day for my 1.25" N. incei gold and 1.5" L. klugi. I thought the incei would give me trouble since it's so fast, but it was no problem. The klugi was a different story, I got to play chase the spider for a while, it went into the new enclosure, then out before I could get the lid on,went back into the old enclosure, then out and ran around the double bins I was working in for a while, then into a catch cup, then out, and then back in and finally wouldn't come out of the catch cup. I finally set the cup in it's new enclosure and closed the lid. It came out after a few minutes and went into it's new hide. Phew!

 

[Dovey]

Rehouse day for my 1.25" N. incei gold and 1.5" L. klugi. I thought the incei would give me trouble since it's so fast, but it was no problem. The klugi was a different story, I got to play chase the spider for a while, it went into the new enclosure, then out before I could get the lid on,went back into the old enclosure, then out and ran around the double bins I was working in for a while, then into a catch cup, then out, and then back in and finally wouldn't come out of the catch cup. I finally set the cup in it's new enclosure and closed the lid. It came out after a few minutes and went into it's new hide. Phew!

Better you than me, mate! Thanks for the timely reminder, however. I'm getting ready to rehouse my own incei and had forgotten that they are known for speed.

 

[draconisj4]

I'm getting ready to rehouse my own incei and had forgotten that they are known for speed.

Hopefully your incei rehouse goes as easy as mine did. It was just in a small deli cup so I was able to lift out the whole webbing structure with the spider in it. I just set the whole thing in the new enclosure, nudged it a bit and it walked right out and stayed still long enough for me to get the lid on.

 

[Mirandarachnid]

I've got the opposite going on right now. Everybody is suddenly molting and is getting too big for their sling jars. Got to figure out the housing for all of these teenagers! I'm sort of hoping we don't have another major molt for a few weeks. Sheesh.

Bleh, same here. Although, It's just rainin' ladies over here. So it's not all bad. Oooooooo that reminds me, I haven't processed my P. cambridgei molt yet. I wonder what it has in it's pants!

 

[draconisj4]

I've got the opposite going on right now. Everybody is suddenly molting and is getting too big for their sling jars. Got to figure out the housing for all of these teenagers! I'm sort of hoping we don't have another major molt for a few weeks. Sheesh.

Don't feel alone, I've got the same thing going on. I thought I had stocked up on larger enclosures but now I'm running out and these darn spiders won't stop molting. Some of them were just rehoused a few months ago and need to be again...I'm looking at you LP, A.geniculata, P. cambridgei and OBT.

 

[DanBsTs]

My 0.1 T. plumipes ate her first post molt meal, emerged and brought out her molt and made me so frickn happy she is just so gorgeous I can’t get enough of her. After over 40 days of being holed away this is a treat

 

[moshpitpanda]

Today in the spider room..

Water bowl empty when I get home..strange..substrate appears very moist..Re fill water bowl and examine. Within half an hour the bowl is half empty..strange..Sling was in bowl but only for a second..I conclude this bowl is leaking (though I have no idea how) and decide I will be a genius and apply super glue to the outside of the bowl to prevent any leaking! After I apply the glue, I then realize if there are tiny holes the glue will just contaminate the water and if not it will contaminate the dirt the sling drinks from! So I then spend about an hour finding something to become substitute water bowl. I settled on one of those plastic covers that you find on things like eye glass cleaner spray bottles. Cut it in half, clean it, apply..destroy mini hide I created..remove sling..re create hide..apply new bowl again..pat down substrate..aaand back to normal! A learning experience!

 

[lvc]

Been really busy lately with moving into my new appartment and other stuff so there have been a lot of things going on in my spideroom since I last posted. All of my Ts have molted at least once in my care now and some are already done with their second molt. 2 weeks ago my H.pulchripes sling constructed an awesome funnel-like entrance to her burrow. She used the small plasticplant and webbed it all up with dirtcurtains and a hole on top of the plant which leads down to her den. Couple of days later she molted for the second time in my care and she already destroyed a mealworm today. Really in love with this specimen! Cant wait for it to get bigger

 

[boina]

Just found my MM P. insignis dead . He didn't even reach a full year after maturing. Since he was very active until a few days ago I was rather surprised to see him dead today.

Other than that I've had at least 5 spiders molting a week for several weeks now, and I haven't cought up with the rehousings... but I just saw my freshly molted P. ornata and she's huge and impressive now, and the L. sp. Borneo black is a shiny black beauty

 

[Torech Ungol]

You know how crickets like to not fall straight down? I was feeding Euphrati, my A. chalcodes, earlier when the cricket I was giving her leaped off the edge of the tongs... directly onto her eye cluster. She lunged for the cricket as the cricket jumped away, and missed. I herded the cricket to her, and she happily ate it, but I was laughing at myself practically the whole time. Sadly, this is not the first time I've dropped a cricket directly on her. It is the first time it hasn't spooked her, though, so that's progress, at least.

 

[dangerforceidle]

I think one of my M. balfouri is thinking of running away and joining a circus with this stilts routine.

 

[Thekla]

So, apparently, a couple of months after her moult my B. hamorii girl thought that with new clothes there need to be a new/redecorated home, too. She started with some light digging here and there and dumping the substrate into her water dish (something she has never done before). Obviously, that wasn't enough as for redecorating, so she decided that her old furniture had to go as well. Something, I actually don't understand... she loved sitting on those dried up moss balls/patches. Those were her most favourite spots in the whole enclosure.


(This was before her moult.)

So, when I got home yesterday, she had dumped the biggest piece of the moss into her water dish, which subsequently wicked away all the water.



Her whole enclosure looked like a battlefield. And when I tried to get the moss out of the water dish, she was quite adamant to leave it right there where it was. I had to distract her with a roach to get that thing out. But when I tried to get another piece out she came after me (I mean, my tongs) again, with roach between her fangs and all. After a brief fight, I got that piece out as well, but wouldn't risk another battle over the last big piece of moss. So, I thought 'Have it your way... for now. Tomorrow I'll get that last piece and fill up your water dish.'
Well, that was the plan anyway. But no such luck...

When I woke up this morning she had obviously chosen her new favourite spot:



Now, hours later, she's still sitting comfortably in her dish and wouldn't budge one iota.
"We will have to talk about this, young lady!"

ETA:
And now she's mocking me, getting even more comfortable in that dish...!? :wideyed:

 

[draconisj4]

So my OBT is still messing with me. I woke up this morning and it had done this overnight, dumped sub all over it's old webbing and attached new to the top vent Now how am I supposed to open it without making the little orange bugger angry? Oh well, at least this time it left the water dish alone, lol.

Also, I had a Horrid King assassin running all over my counter because it made a break for it during feeding, all the while holding on to it's roach for dear life. I really need to rehouse those guys.

 

[Chris LXXIX]

I decided to get cute with my 'wild caught' shelf while I was doing some rearranging

WC shelf

• Mirandarachnid
• Jul 16, 2018

Including a copy of Maurice Sendak 'opera'