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Understood, thanks so much for the help identifying 'him'. We'll do our best to take care of him with water/temp/humidity and keep trying a cricket from time to time. I guess a "tarantula ICU" wouldn't do much to help with the dehydration if he isn't eating anymore, right?
One other anecdote: last week when it was near its water dish I was pouring water into the dish carefully and it turned around toward the dripping water and attacked / bathed in / played with the water pretty energetically. I thought it might be thinking this was food so I injured a cricket and...
We thought it was a female, but looking again it seems it may have developed hooks without us realizing it? See the pics here, I'm not an expert.
My daughter also says it's closer to 4 years old than 3 years as I had originally posted. So if it is a male is this all the beginning of the end maybe?
Hello,
We have had a Mexican red-knee tarantula (our first T) for about 3 years since it was a sling, we think it is a female based on (our amateur level of) checking after a molt. It was molting 1-2 times a year, but hasn't molted now for far more than a year and its abdomen has been steadily...