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Avic Poop - is this normal?!

Agno

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Hello
I just went to check my Avic few minutes ago. She is a juvenile, L5 or L6. I saw she had pooped and thought i'd clean up. I'm keeping her in a plastic container for the moment since she's not big. I'm not even sure she is a she...
Anyway... all the other times her poop seemed just liquid but this time as i took a closer look i got worried. Is it always like this and i missed seeing this before or there is smth to worry about indeed??
Her last meals have been 2 big newly hatched house flies.
 

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SasyStace

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you can even hear them ? :D lol

I actually happen to be taking video of him bc he was out and about and sure enough he took a fat poop and it was so big it sprayed the side of the enclosure and it was loud you can hear it on the video- I will have to do a bit of digging around see if I can locate it and post it LOL
 

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I actually happen to be taking video of him bc he was out and about and sure enough he took a fat poop and it was so big it sprayed the side of the enclosure and it was loud you can hear it on the video- I will have to do a bit of digging around see if I can locate it and post it LOL
Lol...audible poop from tarantulas..funny stuff
 

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that though, I don't know. Usually the feces is solid white in multiple in a clearish liquid. I haven't seen avic feces like that in the photo. I would worry that, that may of been caused by a protozoan or even a bacteria. I don't know. Then again I only see it after it has dried when it is solid. I know the liquid to be clearish, I have seen her squirt out at a cricket. I am not knowledgeable enough on the topic to even answer it.
 

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Three times I've witnessed my reclusive regalis crawl out of her cork tube, aim her butt directly at me where I sat at my desk, and shoot it at the glass separating us. So from my viewpoint there's almost always a poo stain blocking my view of her tunnel entrance, three ft. away. I clean it, she vandalizes it again.
 

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Three times I've witnessed my reclusive regalis crawl out of her cork tube, aim her butt directly at me where I sat at my desk, and shoot it at the glass separating us. So from my viewpoint there's almost always a poo stain blocking my view of her tunnel entrance, three ft. away. I clean it, she vandalizes it again.


It is the little things spiders do.. That makes me so glad they are not human. Only a spider could get away with such antics and STILL be precious.
 

SasyStace

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Three times I've witnessed my reclusive regalis crawl out of her cork tube, aim her butt directly at me where I sat at my desk, and shoot it at the glass separating us. So from my viewpoint there's almost always a poo stain blocking my view of her tunnel entrance, three ft. away. I clean it, she vandalizes it again.

hahahah careful Mass she's looking to get ya
 

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they do aim and shoot feces. you are aware of that right? They actually have really great aim. Thankfully, I haven't been a target.
I have been. With a mature female versicolor I had. My children thought it was hilarious that their daddy was pooped on. Me, not so sure.....lol
 

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