"Arboreal" behavior from a H.Lividum

[Jesperr]

My h.lividum has a strange "arboreal" behavior. Can anyone help me with this problem?

 

[tcrave]

can you take a picture of him/her and the enclosure

 

[Jesperr]

 

[tcrave]

H. lividums are burrowers they need a good amount of substrate, the tank is tall. they need more ground than height.

 

[Jesperr]

Thank you I know they are burrowers but I thought it would be an okey enclousure.Do you suggest another encluosure? This ia a exo terra with "doors" so I cant add too much more substrate.

 

[Ceratogyrus]

I would recommend a new enclosure that would allow you to fill it with substrate. I use arboreal enclosures for my burrowers, and just fill it about 3/4 with peat

 

[khatchet]

If you dont want a new tank just set up a blocker to hold the bedding in when you open it, or just seal the cracks in the doors and use the top to open it up.

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

My h.lividum has a strange "arboreal" behavior. Can anyone help me with this problem?

Like others have stated above my post,change the setup it is a fossorial T. Thus it burrows,and it won't change. The arboreal enclosure idea works well,I have used this with my Haplopelma Lividum and Thailand Velvet specimens. Another one of my Tarantulas I have used this is my P.muticus.

 

[Ceratogyrus]

If these spiders are happy in their enclosures, you will not see it other than a few toes sticking out of its burrow at night.

 

[Jesperr]

Thank you I will find a new enclosure tommorow

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

Thank you I will find a new enclosure tommorow

It is a pleasure !

 

[Rick Stallard]

How old is it? Sub adults sometimes do strange things. I have a sub adult male OBT that had hides and 6" of substrate, but he made a web home in the top corner. Came down at night to eat and move things around, but iwas back at the top in the morning. After a couple weeks of this he came down and now has a network of tunnels.

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

I wanted to add something,my P.muticus and H.lividum was so seldom seen I haven't retrieved one molt and the other day just saw a small tarantula with signs of some blue. The P.muticus at the slightest movement will disappear and maybe show itself at the entrance every few weeks,I use this as a time to feed the above mentioned. I have added 3 specimens that I suspect will be the same,the Thailand velvet(Ornithoctonus Aureotibialis)since they have already burrowed since day one and have been pulling a Houdini.

 

[Jesperr]

How old is it? Sub adults sometimes do strange things. I have a sub adult male OBT that had hides and 6" of substrate, but he made a web home in the top corner. Came down at night to eat and move things around, but iwas back at the top in the morning. After a couple weeks of this he came down and now has a network of tunnels.

I dont know how old it is,but I believe it is a sub adult