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Who knows why they do the things they do. Is it extremely dry in your house? Maybe the baby knew it needed more humidity? I'm assuming you mean there was water in the dish ?
I don't know how you would do it, but I would definitely use glass or plexiglass and somehow fix it where you have two lids. Actually that isn't too big for a t. I have an L difficilis in a 20g long and it's great. If I were you, I'd just get a big t. :)
Looks male to me as well. Hey, G rosea males can lives for years after they mature. I had one live for 3 years post molt and I have one going strong that I got already mature 3 years ago this Summer (not sure when he had matured). He is still eating, drinking water, moving stuff around.
He may be making a sperm web. They will make a web that sometimes goes from the substrate to the wall or some other object, kind of like a lean to. They will lay upside down underneath it and deposit sperm, then they will get on of of the web and load the sperm into the palps. Sometimes they...
She does indeed look dead. :( The "hole in her head" I think you are seeing is the fovea on her carapace. That's normal. I don't know what could have happened. Sometimes we never know. Has he had her since she was a sling? I ask because if he got her as an adult it is very possible she was wild...
I'm glad the others are ok. I can't say for sure that is what happened, it was just my observation that the way it was moving reminded me of that situation. Was the tiny one the same species?
The reason I asked how cold it got was because I had some ts shipped in the Winter a couple years ago without a heat pack. A couple were dead on arrival and a couple lived for a while in icu but were doing the same thing. Some species can't handle cold at all. The way yours was holding a leg up...