IamKrush
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I had a H.gigas(hobby form) sling dip on me from the shipping vial it was in. 1/3" i thought I lost it. But it ended up showing itself about 15minutes later. Longest 15minutes of my life.
http://arachnoboards.com/threads/darlingi-has-colonized-a-drain.274963/After 6 Tarantulas. 3 Slings and 3 Juveniles.
My 7th and sadly my first Old World Tarantula,instead of standing its ground bolted,right out of its enclosure i set up all nice looking,flew Right out of the tupperware i set up for escape,dodged the catch cup with a speed i couldn't anticipate coming from a Tarantula i kept getting told was defensive and now after sifting in vein through clutter,the desk and the area i cannot find this ting the size of a quarter.
It was a Juvenile Ceratogyrus darlingi
So yeah was GOING to be my first old world,i really really REALLY didn't expect that at all,it was faster than litterally any of my other T's ive housed.
So.......uhhh any advice for having a loose juvenile in my room? I feel ULTRA stupid right now
Also maybe some advice on how to prevent this from happening in the future,i was sure i did everything right. I mean i even had the napkin in the enclosure but dang the moment i tried brushing it to move it,GONE.
I disagree. Most people think the main issue with ow is the potential strength of the bite but in my mind the issue is speed. I always tell people you cannot understand the speed you're dealing with until you've seen it with your own eyes. It may seem ridiculous to use the bag method 90% of the time and total overkill but one thing you can count on is 0 escapes. It's even more of a surprise when you have done cage transfers or cleaning and never had any issues. T's just have a mind of their own and as in most things if you plan for the worst you are covered. There's no one in the world who is going to beat a motivated t in a contest of speed. It's natural to hesitate when you get surprised like this and that's more than enough time for your t to escape. Even if you manage to get your catch cup on them the issue then becomes how do you capture without maiming your little buddy. If you take the right precautions this will never ever happen, it's just a matter of being willing to put in the extra preparation even when you don't think it's necessary.No matter what precautions you take, I think that occasionally this just happens. We can't prepare for everything all the time, mistakes are natural from time to time. Don't beat yourself up. I'd just look wherever spiders go.
Did you just solve the problem of terrestrials hanging on the lid? I think you mightve.said fishtank has its walled covered in ptfe i use for my formicariums, not even T's can climb it.
You can't see teleportation.I always tell people you cannot understand the speed you're dealing with until you've seen it with your own eyes.
Oooooh....good luck locating it, it will take a good degree of luck.After 6 Tarantulas. 3 Slings and 3 Juveniles.
My 7th and sadly my first Old World Tarantula,instead of standing its ground bolted,right out of its enclosure i set up all nice looking,flew Right out of the tupperware i set up for escape,dodged the catch cup with a speed i couldn't anticipate coming from a Tarantula i kept getting told was defensive and now after sifting in vein through clutter,the desk and the area i cannot find this ting the size of a quarter.
It was a Juvenile Ceratogyrus darlingi
So yeah was GOING to be my first old world,i really really REALLY didn't expect that at all,it was faster than litterally any of my other T's ive housed.
So.......uhhh any advice for having a loose juvenile in my room? I feel ULTRA stupid right now
Also maybe some advice on how to prevent this from happening in the future,i was sure i did everything right. I mean i even had the napkin in the enclosure but dang the moment i tried brushing it to move it,GONE.
i think of this every time i re house in the tub...lol. The other day i housed a mm darlingi in the tub....afterwards i realized i didnt close the drain...dodged a bullet there...
Heat with a space heater.....a pad us designed to be used in contact, just leaving a heat pad in the vicinity wont have much effect unless its kept pretty close.If you are in a cooler part of the world, I heard keeping a heat pad or heat lamp in a certain part of the room and looking for the T near the heated area sometimes work. It makes sense but I've never tried it myself.
Hope you find your T.
Blessings!
No matter what size of T I'm rehousing I always utilise the bath, the best solution to an easily avoided situation. The best advice I can give has already been given by @Moakmeister use a red flash light when it's dark, they stand out more so than using an ordinary flashlight. Sorry to hear this, I really hope you find the wee fella. Good luck.Thanks for the info,sadly after a deep amount of searching it appears to be just sort of gone. This is definitely my fault doing this in my room,i was sure everything was set up well enough,I had NO clue it would bolt across 2-3 layers of smooth surface plastic with no slowing down so quickly. @__@
That's not the reason, the reason is that they can't see red light so they won't hide when you shine it at then.No matter what size of T I'm rehousing I always utilise the bath, the best solution to an easily avoided situation. The best advice I can give has already been given by @Moakmeister use a red flash light when it's dark, they stand out more so than using an ordinary flashlight. Sorry to hear this, I really hope you find the wee fella. Good luck.
What, prey, is the bag method?It may seem ridiculous to use the bag method 90%
The bag method is putting the tarantula's old enclosure in a bag and taping the bag's opening around the opening of the new enclosure, then basically doing the whole transfer through the bag. It puts the whole transfer in a closed environment so you don't have to worry about an escape at any point in the process.What, prey, is the bag method?
I will receive a C. marshalli - my first OW - this week and I want to avoid a similar incident as the OP described.
That sounds awfully laborious, but still better than chasing your tarantula for days. Thanks for the info, I might give this a try.doing the whole transfer through the bag