LondonLegs
Arachnopeon
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- Mar 28, 2011
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After longing for a T since the age of twelve, I finally got my hands on a G. rosea at a pet shop we brought my greyhound to for a meet. Looking back, i may have made a quick and terrible decision.
I asked about what I've deemed a female, though she's relatively small, maybe a year old, and the shopboy leapt into action, practically begging me to take her. She was in the middle of eating, so I did not handle her (looking back, I should have, as I really wish for a handleable T). The moment she was finished it was time to leave, so I grabbed her habitat, which I bought so as not to disrupt her, and headed home. I left her be for the first few days, then gently placed my hand on her substrate, in front of her. She skittered away post-haste, so I didn't push the issue. The next day, I tried again. And again she showed no interest, and firmly planted her legs when I touched her hind toe to try to get her to walk up.
A week and a half after this, I upgraded her from the tiny, cracked, awful carrier she was in to a 5.5 gallon heaped with substrate. In this time I discovered that she could be handled if I a)scooted her first onto a non-flesh item and then to my hand and b)my hands could keep up with her practically jogging across them. The first day or two she seemed fine, but has slowly gotten more and more aggressive.
She refuses to be handled, and has taken up the disturbing habit of climbing up the wall, across her ceiling, and then just letting go, so that she falls either on her side or flat on her back. She has a broken, though not ruptured, leg. Yesterday I found her face down in her water sponge, where she remained for close to five hours. Today, she spent eight hours furiously stretching up the sides of the glass, falling, then stomping to another corner and doing it again. And though with the amount of substrate I put to keep her safe she doesn't have far to go, every time she falls she practically bends in half between her abdomen and cephelothorax. As far as even TOUCHING the inside of the tank, she has turned into a vicious monster.
I've found bits and pieces through every G. rosea article and thread I thought would be relevant...but nothing is matching up. I'm dead sure I got the 1 in 1,000 angry roses, but the self-destructive tendencies are still unexplained.
I'd much appreciate any help.
I asked about what I've deemed a female, though she's relatively small, maybe a year old, and the shopboy leapt into action, practically begging me to take her. She was in the middle of eating, so I did not handle her (looking back, I should have, as I really wish for a handleable T). The moment she was finished it was time to leave, so I grabbed her habitat, which I bought so as not to disrupt her, and headed home. I left her be for the first few days, then gently placed my hand on her substrate, in front of her. She skittered away post-haste, so I didn't push the issue. The next day, I tried again. And again she showed no interest, and firmly planted her legs when I touched her hind toe to try to get her to walk up.
A week and a half after this, I upgraded her from the tiny, cracked, awful carrier she was in to a 5.5 gallon heaped with substrate. In this time I discovered that she could be handled if I a)scooted her first onto a non-flesh item and then to my hand and b)my hands could keep up with her practically jogging across them. The first day or two she seemed fine, but has slowly gotten more and more aggressive.
She refuses to be handled, and has taken up the disturbing habit of climbing up the wall, across her ceiling, and then just letting go, so that she falls either on her side or flat on her back. She has a broken, though not ruptured, leg. Yesterday I found her face down in her water sponge, where she remained for close to five hours. Today, she spent eight hours furiously stretching up the sides of the glass, falling, then stomping to another corner and doing it again. And though with the amount of substrate I put to keep her safe she doesn't have far to go, every time she falls she practically bends in half between her abdomen and cephelothorax. As far as even TOUCHING the inside of the tank, she has turned into a vicious monster.
I've found bits and pieces through every G. rosea article and thread I thought would be relevant...but nothing is matching up. I'm dead sure I got the 1 in 1,000 angry roses, but the self-destructive tendencies are still unexplained.
I'd much appreciate any help.