Today in the Spider Room?

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

yes - she immediatly settled in so i think it works for her.
Enclosure is 12x12x18 acrylic
no plastic plants

Mine are just slings, but I have two SAF P. victorii that need rehouses so good to know I might have to go big.

 

[Spinnenfritzi]

Mine are just slings, but I have two SAF P. victorii that need rehouses so good to know I might have to go big.

aren't P. victoriis a fair bit smaller then P. cambridgeis?
i don't know if the enclosure is big. Just watch your animals and you will get a feeling for the space they use and what they like.

 

[FatBadBay]

When rehousing the OBT was easier than rehousing the g. Pulchripes. The Pulchripes was more interested in attacking the paintbrush vs moving into its new enclosure

 

[FatBadBay]

Looks like they've settled in. Both ate/are eating

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Sharktanked my MM irminia last night after having fattened up my female post molt. He started tap-tap-tapping fairly soon and for a long time. She came out within the first hour to press her top half against the glass between his Amac box and her cave like an overdramatic teenager, “Why is there an old man in my home?!”
Around 3am, I looked in again to find her starfished on a side of his enclosure (he was doing the same, but on a different side). When I looked in again at 6, she was hiding back in her cave again. I’m taking this as a “not interested” sign, but am not sure if that is a correct interpretation.

 

[zsiciarz]

My Idiothele mira female isn't doing too well. I found her yesterday on the surface, slightly curled. She was having trouble walking, but at least I got her to drink. Today she was curled up again, her legs only slowly twitching. I moved her into a smaller temporary enclosure and now it is a waiting game.

 

[NMTs]

My Idiothele mira female isn't doing too well. I found her yesterday on the surface, slightly curled. She was having trouble walking, but at least I got her to drink. Today she was curled up again, her legs only slowly twitching. I moved her into a smaller temporary enclosure and now it is a waiting game.
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How long have you had her? I wonder if it's just old age?

Sharktanked my MM irminia last night after having fattened up my female post molt. He started tap-tap-tapping fairly soon and for a long time. She came out within the first hour to press her top half against the glass between his Amac box and her cave like an overdramatic teenager, “Why is there an old man in my home?!”
Around 3am, I looked in again to find her starfished on a side of his enclosure (he was doing the same, but on a different side). When I looked in again at 6, she was hiding back in her cave again. I’m taking this as a “not interested” sign, but am not sure if that is a correct interpretation.

It seems like she was at least a little interested... I would maybe put him in there again and if there's any way you can put a camera there to see how she behaves when you're not around, you'll learn a lot from it. Set up an Ipad or something that can record at least a few hours that you can review.

 

[zsiciarz]

How long have you had her? I wonder if it's just old age?

Definitely not old age. I got her as a well started sling less than a year ago and she's just about reached adulthood.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Super sad, I’m pretty certain something went wrong in my diversepes last molt. Sonce molting she’s pounced on prey and killed it, but hasn’t eaten. I tested suspicions of this last night and was ecstatic to see her hold her cricket for at least 15 minutes. With that sinking feeling, I just came home from work to find it whole in her web. Her abdomen is too small to make it to another molt. Trying to decide if I need to euthanize. This totally sucks.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

Super sad, I’m pretty certain something went wrong in my diversepes last molt. Sonce molting she’s pounced on prey and killed it, but hasn’t eaten. I tested suspicions of this last night and was ecstatic to see her hold her cricket for at least 15 minutes. With that sinking feeling, I just came home from work to find it whole in her web. Her abdomen is too small to make it to another molt. Trying to decide if I need to euthanize. This totally sucks.

I’ve had this happen where a T has a feeding response but just can’t eat or drink anything and expires. Did you check the molt for a sucking stomach?

 

[NMTs]

Definitely not old age. I got her as a well started sling less than a year ago and she's just about reached adulthood.

Sorry. Hoping she pulls through.

 

[NMTs]

Super sad, I’m pretty certain something went wrong in my diversepes last molt. Sonce molting she’s pounced on prey and killed it, but hasn’t eaten. I tested suspicions of this last night and was ecstatic to see her hold her cricket for at least 15 minutes. With that sinking feeling, I just came home from work to find it whole in her web. Her abdomen is too small to make it to another molt. Trying to decide if I need to euthanize. This totally sucks.

It does sound like there may be a sucking stomach issue, unfortunately. Have you seen her drink at all?

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

It does sound like there may be a sucking stomach issue, unfortunately. Have you seen her drink at all?

I just saw her try. She smeared her wet face all over the acrylic to different water spots I made. Earlier, I saw her go back to that cricket and pick it up again. Still uneaten.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

I’ve had this happen where a T has a feeding response but just can’t eat or drink anything and expires. Did you check the molt for a sucking stomach?

I tried, but it was only 1.25” and dried. I didn’t see it there, but it easily could have fell off being that small.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

I tried, but it was only 1.25” and dried. I didn’t see it there, but it easily could have fell off being that small.

the sucking stomach shouldn’t be too hard to find even on a small molt, it’s the handle-like thing on the inside of the cephalothorax.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

the sucking stomach shouldn’t be too hard to find even on a small molt, it’s the handle-like thing on the inside of the cephalothorax.

I am aware, but it had dried out over the past 4 weeks and was tossed in a bin. At this point, I think all signs point to that being the problem. She’s trying again to eat the cricket she webbed up (fourth time I’ve seen).

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

Had a hell of a scare tonight when I was watering my Cyriopagopus cf. hainanus (not the true hainanus, but the unidentified species usually traded as such). It’s one of my best eaters and charged up from its burrow….only to then immediately go into defensive posture and try to bite absolutely everything that came within reach.

And then, no joke, this T launches itself out of the enclosure and up the wall of my new spider room, evading a near recapture with my catch cup until it started running around upside down on the ceiling. I can just barely reach it with the catch cup but have no way to make it actually stay in there once I lower the cup, so it kept running around on the ceiling for over a minute before it went to the bottom of the cup for a few precious seconds.

 

[zsiciarz]

Sorry. Hoping she pulls through.

The situation resolved itself, unfortunately in a bad way. She tried to molt upright and failed. The carapace popped, the abdomen appears to have molted properly, but the chelicerae were stuck. I tried to help with a wet brush, she appears to have freed the fangs, but overnight and through most of the day she made no further progress. I'm afraid her legs have already hardened inside her old exuvia and this won't get any better.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Had a hell of a scare tonight when I was watering my Cyriopagopus cf. hainanus (not the true hainanus, but the unidentified species usually traded as such). It’s one of my best eaters and charged up from its burrow….only to then immediately go into defensive posture and try to bite absolutely everything that came within reach.

And then, no joke, this T launches itself out of the enclosure and up the wall of my new spider room, evading a near recapture with my catch cup until it started running around upside down on the ceiling. I can just barely reach it with the catch cup but have no way to make it actually stay in there once I lower the cup, so it kept running around on the ceiling for over a minute before it went to the bottom of the cup for a few precious seconds.

Heart check!!

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

The situation resolved itself, unfortunately in a bad way. She tried to molt upright and failed. The carapace popped, the abdomen appears to have molted properly, but the chelicerae were stuck. I tried to help with a wet brush, she appears to have freed the fangs, but overnight and through most of the day she made no further progress. I'm afraid her legs have already hardened inside her old exuvia and this won't get any better.
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I would still try with the paintbrush if she’s still alive. Best of luck.