YESS, My Problem Child is Eating!!

[equuskat]

The big C. crawshayi girl that I have been TRYING to rehabilitate has refused food for weeks. She was skinny when I got her, and had a badly damaged leg. She struggled a lot with the problem leg, and I found her on her back trying to remove it! When I came home from work and found it flipped over her eyes, I figured that it was time to amputate. Later that week she had maggots in the socket and I cleaned it out with q-tips and sealed it with a drop of clear nail polish. I've been keeping her in a shoebox with a hide, on sphagnum moss because it holds humidity well. I keep a corner of her box on my snake's heating pad.

She still refused food and looked weak and horrible.

Today, though, I thought I would try to feed her again, just in case.

She took a dubia off my tongs!! I thought she had just killed it and dropped it at first, but then she picked it up and started munching. YAY!!!

 

[crpy]

sheesh, Good luck to the African queen....err king

 

[stevetastic]

ouchies! i'm glad she is eating for you! its great that you havn't given up on her! keep up the amazing work with her!:clap:

 

[aluras]

congrats!! hope she starts looking better,,,,cause Damn At least we have people like you around that take the time for rehabilitation..:clap: AWSOME:clap:

 

[equuskat]

When she took that cricket, I wanted to cry. There have been so many times that I opened her enclosure and thought she was dead. She was SO weak, but I just kept doing everything I could. Hopefully this means she'll pull through. If she does make it, I swear she's never going anywhere. She's special.

 

[desertdweller]

What a great tarantula heart you have!!! Your big girl is so LUCKY to have you. I know she must feel treasured. She's bound to be ok with you by her side. Great going!!!!:clap: :clap: :clap:

You are a great asset to the hobby!

 

[equuskat]

This morning the dubia is nothing but a little bolus. I pulled that out (am trying to keep her cage conditions pristine) and I'll try to feed her again tonight.

 

[crpy]

hows her abdomen look<>

 

[equuskat]

She's still skinny, but I'm less worried about that if she's taking food. She never was shriveled or anything, just much too thin for a 7" C. crawshayi.

 

[JColt]

awesome news and great care from you!

 

[clam1991]

i hope it makes it
for it to make it through all that
your right you do have a special t

 

[cheetah13mo]

Congrats on getting her to take food. That's a cool success story for you to share. Thanks.

 

[seanbond]

rough around the edges but GREAT job!

 

[equuskat]

Yeah, she's not exactly "pretty" right now...but she's doing better than she was.

Hopefully the improvement will continue...I try not to be too attached, though, because I am still very concerned about her.

I keep her shoebox very clean and a day or two after she ate, I picked her up to move her in order to clean out the bolus (which was in 2 pieces in her hide). What self-respecting healthy King Baboon lets herself be pinched-picked-up without any fuss? She stridulated a little and that's about it.

 

[kman]

That's really amazing. I hope she pulls through and when she molts you absolutely have to post that picture and the one after the molt. It's amazing how these guys can rebuild themselves with each new molt.