Today in the Spider Room?

[IntermittentSygnal]

Earthquake today. Can home to check on my T’s and found P sp Dominican purple, Guabensex, still prepared for aftershocks.

 

[NMTs]

The littles are turning black and will molt to 2i any day now:


Preparations are underway!

 

[corydalis]

Molted a month ago, she had 3 lateralis since, but still appeared a bit on the skinny side, so last night as she finally decided to linger outside rewarded her with something more substantial. Honestly, I was a bit worried, that those times, when she showed herself more frequently were over, so I took a hellova lot picture of her. Just a few of them:

 

[l4nsky]

New piece of kit for the facility. I've always viewed this as a luxury purchase, but with some of the fossorial projects in the works this year, such an item has become a necessary investment lol.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

I lost A sp Columbia, Cuchavira. I’d noticed a few days ago what appeared to be a molt in a well webbed section of her enclosure. That or her scrunched, it was hard to see. I didn’t see it move in the next couple of days and assumed that was the molt and she must be in the back of the cork stretching, but I didn’t check until today. Four of her feet were deformed and two others were still stuck in the molt. She had obviously been struggling while hardening to still get out. When I removed her, those last two feet came out fairly easily. Her suffering and death were completely preventable if I had looked closer sooner and realized she needed help. Knowing I looked in on her (and all the others) a couple times a day every day, but didn’t take that extra couple seconds to turn the enclosure around to check crushes my heart.

 

[Motherofspiders112707]

We went to an expo today, and I have a wolfie in my collection again! Her name is Rhadium

 

[TheraMygale]

I lost A sp Columbia, Cuchavira. I’d noticed a few days ago what appeared to be a molt in a well webbed section of her enclosure. That or her scrunched, it was hard to see. I didn’t see it move in the next couple of days and assumed that was the molt and she must be in the back of the cork stretching, but I didn’t check until today. Four of her feet were deformed and two others were still stuck in the molt. She had obviously been struggling while hardening to still get out. When I removed her, those last two feet came out fairly easily. Her suffering and death were completely preventable if I had looked closer sooner and realized she needed help. Knowing I looked in on her (and all the others) a couple times a day every day, but didn’t take that extra couple seconds to turn the enclosure around to check crushes my heart.

really sorry for your loss.
i know you take really good care of your tarantulas. Even if you checked, it might not have worked out. I will keep checking and intervening when i can, because it can happen to all of us.

 

[ladyratri]

Her suffering and death were completely preventable if I had looked closer sooner and realized she needed help. Knowing I looked in on her (and all the others) a couple times a day every day, but didn’t take that extra couple seconds to turn the enclosure around to check crushes my heart.

Even if you checked, it might not have worked out.

I'm always concerned that if I move or open the enclosure, I'll startle the molting T and cause more problems than I could solve... You can never be certain it was preventable, nor that your adjusting enclosures might cause trouble in a different case -- zero sum.

So sorry this happened to you. As said above, it's clear you take really good care of your T's, and that you'll continue to do your best for them. Nature can be harsh, even in captivity. Not every loss is a keeper's fault.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

really sorry for your loss.
i know you take really good care of your tarantulas. Even if you checked, it might not have worked out. I will keep checking and intervening when i can, because it can happen to all of us.

@ladyratri
Thank you both for your kind words. You are both correct, of course, I can’t “know” I could have helped her. I only feel I failed her as a keeper by not even noticing she was in trouble. I still may have failed if I helped and be feeling guilty for a different reason.