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Do you have an idea on how long it can go without food before I should get worried? I’ve done a lot of research and people say they can go without eating for a while but I would feed better knowing if and when I should start to worry. I offer it food once a week- maybe twice if I see it being active
Your comment has been very helpful. I always see so many conflicting comments on humidity but I definitely won’t be adding any more humidity to the enclosure.
I have been thinking about doing that actually. I’ll have to look into places I can get a smaller enclosure. Do you think it would stress it out by moving it into a new area now? I only ask because I don’t know if it is going to molt or if it’s just being dramatic and going off food. Would it...
This is the enclosure I have now. Like I said, I got her at the end of September. I haven’t switched the enclosure around at all since early October- I added more plants and vines since it wasn’t webbing and I figured it needed more places to attach a web to. But as you can see, absolutely no...
So to preface, I got my a. avicularia on 9/23 of this year and it ate for the first time that night. Since then it has been refusing food, which led me to think it was going to molt. It still hasn’t molted and is still refusing food. I have it in a 12x12x12 exoterra (the spider is still pretty...