Weird Tarantula Death

[Andrei2001]

Hello everyone! Recently my tarantula died and I am looking for some answers about it's death. The tarantula was in it's cap of water , dead of course, when i found it. Everything was ok, it ate like 1 week ago. She was almost an year old. But, weirdly, all the water from the cup (understand that it was a big cup of water, not a small one) was spilled literally everywhere in the enclosure. The substrate was all wet. And the weirdest part of all is that the enclosure has a powerful smell of something like a windows cleaner. Is it possible for a tarantula to leave that kind of smell or is it possible that someone might have sprayed it intentionally with some windows spray cleaner?

 

[Carthropod]

Hello everyone! Recently my tarantula died and I am looking for some answers about it's death. The tarantula was in it's cap of water , dead of course, when i found it. Everything was ok, it ate like 1 week ago. She was almost an year old. But, weirdly, all the water from the cup (understand that it was a big cup of water, not a small one) was spilled literally everywhere in the enclosure. The substrate was all wet. And the weirdest part of all is that the enclosure has a powerful smell of something like a windows cleaner. Is it possible for a tarantula to leave that kind of smell or is it possible that someone might have sprayed it intentionally with some windows spray cleaner?

wet exo terra earth can smell chemical when wet (not misting wet but like spilling water wet) so that can be it

 

[Andrei2001]

wet exo terra earth can smell chemical when wet (not misting wet but like spilling water wet) so that can be it

okay. thank you so much for your reply !

 

[ColeopteraC]

Pictures?

 

[Andrei2001]

Pictures?

I already preserved the tarantula but if you want I can put pictures of the enclosure

 

[ColeopteraC]

Ok, that’ll be good, what species was s/he?

 

[Andrei2001]

To be honest, I don’t really know what species it was. I got it as a present and just then i started Getting more interested about tarantulas. I Searched a lot to Find what species it was but i couldn’t Find. If you know, please Tell me.
now, about the enclosure. Usually the earth was pretty “organised” . It wasn’t thrown everywhere or something, and looked pretty dry to me. But when i found it dead there Was a lot of earth in its cup, and THE earth also was of a dark brownish colour as you can SEE in THE picture. It looks wet, but there was not enough water in that cup to wet the whole substrate in THE enclosure.
sorry for THE caps,THE autocorrector îs annoying me right now

 

[Poonjab]

Never rule out someone trying to kill your T. Where was the T kept? At your house, office, other? I’ve never had a substrate smell like window cleaner. I might be pulling at strings here, but what if someone tried to lure you T out of its hide and in the process got spooked when it moved, resulting in them knocking over that big dish. Then they sprayed it with whatever once it was out in the open.

 

[Andrei2001]

Never rule out someone trying to kill your T. Where was the T kept? At your house, office, other? I’ve never had a substrate smell like window cleaner. I might be pulling at strings here, but what if someone tried to lure you T out of its hide and in the process got spooked when it moved, resulting in them knocking over that big dish. Then they sprayed it with whatever once it was out in the open.

Believe me I thought about this a lot and I still don't know what to believe. The only other person who is staying with me is my mom and even if she doesn't like Ts that much she swore to me that she didn't kill it. It's a really strange situation for me. I just wanna know what happened but the answer to this is still unclear for me yet.

 

[Poonjab]

Believe me I thought about this a lot and I still don't know what to believe. The only other person who is staying with me is my mom and even if she doesn't like Ts that much she swore to me that she didn't kill it. It's a really strange situation for me. I just wanna know what happened but the answer to this is still unclear for me yet.

yeah, if it’s just your mom then it probably wasn’t what I proposed. I’ve just heard stories of things like this that have happened in offices etc... yeah, weird death all around.

 

[dangerforceidle]

To be honest, I don’t really know what species it was. I got it as a present and just then i started Getting more interested about tarantulas. I Searched a lot to Find what species it was but i couldn’t Find. If you know, please Tell me.
now, about the enclosure. Usually the earth was pretty “organised” . It wasn’t thrown everywhere or something, and looked pretty dry to me. But when i found it dead there Was a lot of earth in its cup, and THE earth also was of a dark brownish colour as you can SEE in THE picture. It looks wet, but there was not enough water in that cup to wet the whole substrate in THE enclosure.
sorry for THE caps,THE autocorrector îs annoying me right now

This is either Lampropelma nigerrimum or Phormingochilus arboricola. It needs a fair bit of moisture in the substrate, as it's from a tropical region of SE Asia.

The substrate from those photos looks far too dry.

 

[Andrei2001]

This is either Lampropelma nigerrimum or Phormingochilus arboricola. It needs a fair bit of moisture in the substrate, as it's from a tropical region of SE Asia.

The substrate from those photos looks far too dry.

At first when i first created her enclosure the substrate was moist enough but in time it dried i think. As I said , i didn't know what species it was. If i had known i would've taken the appropiate care of it, but i could not find on the internet

 

[Carthropod]

Never rule out someone trying to kill your T. Where was the T kept? At your house, office, other? I’ve never had a substrate smell like window cleaner. I might be pulling at strings here, but what if someone tried to lure you T out of its hide and in the process got spooked when it moved, resulting in them knocking over that big dish. Then they sprayed it with whatever once it was out in the open.

its a thing if the earth is new or already in there for some months/weeks so if you make an new birk wet, and ike good wet, smell it it CAN sometimes smell chemical