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Acrobatic tarantula

Dyron.s

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Hi guys, back i am with another question.
My recently molted brachypelma boehmei has constantly been on the moving all over her terrarium the past week. Sometimes she sits completely still for a couple of hours and after just picks up where she left and starts climbing all over the place. I already gave her some food so she shouldn’t be that hungry, i also checked the humidity and temperature and they should be good aswell. Should I check for more things and be worried or is this just unexplainable individual tarantula behavior?

Here are a few pics of her hanging around :)

P,s. I know that screen mesh lids are the worst in the tarantula hobby, I am planning on replacing her lid with a plexiglass one
 

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Dyron.s

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I transferred my T into a different enclosure to check if she would calm down and prevent her from falling all over again and she still shows the same behavior as she did in her old enclosure… do I just need to accept the way things are or is there something severely wrong with her?
 

Tarantulafeets

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Typically rehouses stress them out, and they try to run around the enclosure for a while. I would give it a few weeks to settle in.
 

Arachnoclown

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I always try to keep the substrate as dry as possible because this is a species from Mexico with low humidity and high temperatures
There's a really good chance that spider has never been to Mexico. Tarantulas adapt to all types of mild climates. No need to to replicate an extreme climate.
 

Dyron.s

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There's a really good chance that spider has never been to Mexico. Tarantulas adapt to all types of mild climates. No need to to replicate an extreme climate.
I never really thought of that, I usually moisture her enclosure once a month, I unplugged her heating pad because i heard that they don’t need them and can stress them out
 
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