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Thank you❤

Thank you. ❤ Unfortunately not too unexpected due to her condition, but very sad nonetheless.

Thank you.❤ I worked really hard, for sure.

Sad, sad day. My mystery T passed away tonight. She did eat a few times, but even then I'm not sure she actually ate. It looked more like she was grinding up the food with her fangs. I've provided her with plenty of water and put her at the water dish last night, when I noticed she was walking...

I Tried prekilled pray (and mealworms, dead and alive) as well as cricket soup. But she finally caught live crickets.

I sure hope so, the only remains I could find was the cricket's head, legs and wings. Here is a picture of the T:s "buck tooth", by the way. This is what it looks like when relaxed. I've never had a spider with a fang like this before!

A few updates: Last weekend I took her out and cleaned her entire enclosure. I put in a much softer substrate and fabric plants, nothing sharp of hard whatsoever. She seems to enjoy the new setting alot! I fed her a live cricket then, which she killed, but it only looked partially eaten. I tried...

I don't remember if her fangs looked like that before, to be honest. And I'm positive that the prey is uneaten. The insides are not dissolved at all, it's just ripped apart. It started smelling terribly this morning so I threw it away. I tried again with a live one but she just backed away from it.

Thank you, I will try this! I can add that she just now ripped the cricket into pieces. It still looks uneaten, though. :( (She's obsessively preening/grooming herself at the moment.)

How do you mean, exactly? (Pipette feed her?)

They need to inject venom to liquefy the prey, don't they? In any case, she bit through the cricket and held it in her fangs for some time. Then just put it down. It looks completely uneaten, just "chewed through". I'm concerned, not gonna lie.

Today's update - I left one live and two dead crickets with her today. She FINALLY grabbed a dead one and it looked like she started eating it. I didn't want to disturb her, so when I returned a few hours later, she sat there preening, with the cricket next to her, uneaten. :( Can this mean that...

Thanks for all the tips! I've had to hand feed my hamorii too one year ago, so I'll give it a try on my aphonopelma if she refuses to eat for a bit longer. I've heard about the species' notorious hunger strikes, but I've never ever had an ameciated/dehydrated T refuse food.

@Arachnoclown Her fangs are still slightly "folded out", is this something to worry about? I'm thinking if her fangs are somehow not usable. Also, she grooms them often. Would hand feeding her with a pipette be a reasonable last resort? (I'll keep on feeding her normally for now, of course.)

Yes, it definetly makes sense. The skull is removed now, and tomorrow I'll make another feeding attempt.