what´s your first lost?

[Eduardo Lopez]

Ive been keeping Ts for almos a year, so far I have 1 A seemanni MF, 2 S calceatum, 1 C darlingi MM, 1 A avic and a 1 B klaasi.

Today I got 2 P irminia and the slings arrived dead, I had toought that my first lost would be something related to my husbandry... but no, maybe it was too hot and the slings couldnt handle the shipping.

I feel awful, what if I had waited for cooler months? My B klassi was sent the same way without issues but it wasnt as hot as this month. Packaging was on point.. anyway, I guess I just want to feel better.

So I wonder how your first lost happened?

 

[Aarantula]

Been too long to remember my first T death. Been in the hobby nearly 30 years. Don’t sweat it though, it just happens.

 

[Eduardo Lopez]

Been too long to remember my first T death. Been in the hobby nearly 30 years. Don’t sweat it though, it just happens.

I guess it happens...

 

[Charles McCarty]

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My first lost T "Bulldozer" (Acanthoscurria geniculata) was due to a wildfire that destroyed my whole town (90% of all residential houses destroyed). It was buried in it's hide in premolt. I went to work, and half an hour later over 50,000 people from several towns were evacuating. I couldn't even make it back to my apartment. I lost almost every thing. Took me months to get settled into a new apartment. Here's a video once I near the outside edge of town it was around Noon when I recorded this.

 

[FrDoc]

First one, I think, was an A. moderatum sling. I got it at about 1/8”, it hardly ever ate, molted once but put on no size at all, then never ate again. As stated above, if you keep several it’s going to happen. I just received four N. incei in a trade. One died within two days, and two died this week within a couple days of molting. The fourth is doing like a champ. All were kept exactly the same, fed the same thing at the same times, watered the same, even being placed within 12” of each other. I have about 40 T’s, all but three raised from slings, running the gamut of genera, so I’m pretty sure I’m not a sling moron. Who knows?

 

[The Grym Reaper]

WC A. avicularia that was riddled with nematodes, first and last pet shop purchase.

 

[EtienneN]

My first was an A avic sling that flipped to moult and then never popped its carapace.

 

[Eduardo Lopez]

My first lost T "Bulldozer" (Acanthoscurria geniculata) was due to a wildfire that destroyed my whole town (90% of all residential houses destroyed). It was buried in it's hide in premolt. I went to work, and half an hour later over 50,000 people from several towns were evacuating. I couldn't even make it back to my apartment. I lost almost every thing. Took me months to get settled into a new apartment. Here's a video once I near the outside edge of town it was around Noon when I recorded this.

wow... that´s quite a story

 

[Demonclaws]

My brother forgot to close an enclosure and accidentally stepped on an escaped juvenile A. chalcodes.

 

[PrimalxTyrantula]

P. Irminia.

Broke my heart, still bothers me to this day. Been here for a year so a death is like a emotional stab.

 

[ThorsCarapace22]

Ephebopus murinus. I got I from an expo and it always acted sickly. It wouldn't eat or web, nothing. And one day I went to check on my Ts and he/she was just dead. It's a shame because it was a beautiful T. I only had it for about a month.

 

[SuzukiSwift]

P regalis named Zephyr. She got some sort of DKS, she was totally fine and then suddenly just started spazzing out for an hour and died. It still hurts when I think about it.

I’ve had Ts die over the years, for some of them I just feel like it’s a shame but for a few I really had a connection with them and it was painful.

 

[WolfSoon]

Y. diversipes sling that died suddenly a few weeks after I brought it home. Still not sure of the cause, but it might’ve been related to some ants that got on my T shelf.

 

[Martikhoras]

Since I am rather new to the hobby I hoped that it would take a while before I could post about this sort of thing, but here I am.

My first loss: click here

tl:dr
I thought I had improvised the right way and killed a tiny little sling (Caribena versicolor) because of my obviously bad husbandry. The thing which beats me up the most is, that I knew about the ventilation sensitivity of the species and still effed up.

But at the moment I make test-runs on smaller enclosures for smaller slings and plan to get a new one this month.

 

[Paul1126]

My first and only loss was Juvie B. boehmei (Hybrid) just died suddenly, makes me sad. He was a cool spider.

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[draconisj4]

I've only had 2 die in my care, an X. immanis sling that I had for a month when it died in a bad molt and a P. lugardi sling that wasn't ever quite right.

 

[Ungoliant]

In 2017, my first tarantula (Avicularia avicularia) died as an elderly female (10 years old of the previous owner's information was accurate) due to a bad molt. (I tried to extricate her from her molt, but she was hopelessly stuck, as not even her chelicerae were completely free.)


I also lost a juvenile male Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens last fall due to a failed molt attempt.

 

[Goopyguy56]

My first T was my first loss. G. Porteri. I think it died from a fall. I didn't understand making sure to set it up correctly back then. Was a great first t. 2nd loss was a super tiny g pulchripes sling. Burried itself to molt. Never came back up. After several months I started to gently remove the substrate and found it dead. Third loss was a c Versicolor sling. Had two from the same clutch
One grew alot quicker than the other. The other had issues for several months and the other was thriving and growing. One day I woke up and found the smaller one dead.

 

[nicodimus22]

My MM A. avicularia (Velcro) was my first loss a few months ago. He lived for 19 months after his final molt.

I don't count DOAs or spiders that were delivered to me with a fatal impaction as my losses because I really had no control over the outcomes.

 

[Rhino1]

I had a sling disappear that I suspect had a burrow collapse although I never found any remains and a very large U.elongatus female scorpion that I had for 7-8 years, she had a brood of scorplings on her back then one day just went loco and pulled them off one by one and chopped them up, she never ate again and just slowly wasted away.