B. Hamorii won't stop biting ventilation holes

[poodude289]

I've had a B. Hamorii for a few months now and everything was fine, and then I saw some mold starting to form and decided I wanted to take the mold out. This lead to me repositioning it's hide, and that seems to be when it started biting the ventilation holes. This has been happening for maybe four days now. I've tried using a smaller water dish, and a bigger water dish to try and rule out of it was humidity related. I haven't over-flowed the dish in a while because I was leaving it alone after stressing it out.

When I put the T back in, I even brushed it towards the hide and it stayed in it for a while. Then, when it was out at night and it eventually became 9 A.M. - my light flicked on and the T stayed in the same position during the day for probably five hours because it was terrified. Night time again, it started climbing and chewing the vent holes. The biggest thing I can see causing this is how it's hide is positioned differently in terms of the depth / ramp because it's impossible to have it exactly how it was. I'm going to get some pictures posted on here tomorrow.

Can I get some ideas on what to do? Should I try moistening the substrate again? This is a 1.5" DLS T and I'm getting concerned something is severely wrong and it will die.

 

[poodude289]

Honestly with how much I did, it may as well have been a rehousing, but I've done things before and it's never gone to bite the ventilation holes for days.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Don't think biting the screen is life threatening till said T bites threw and causes sharps to form from the screen. Moving things about probably won't help. Your only option may be an enclosure with no metallic screening. This may be your T's entertainment as well as the old escape plan, lol,lol!

 

[poodude289]

Don't think biting the screen is life threatening till said T bites threw and causes sharps to form from the screen. Moving things about probably won't help. Your only option may be an enclosure with no metallic screening. This may be your T's entertainment as well as the old escape plan, lol,lol!

I don't have screening, it's an acrylic Tarantula Crib. I'm not concerned for the sake of it hurting a fang, I'm concerned for the sake of something I did in the terrarium making it unhappy causing it to bite the ventilation holes.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

I don't have screening, it's an acrylic Tarantula Crib. I'm not concerned for the sake of it hurting a fang, I'm concerned for the sake of something I did in the terrarium making it unhappy causing it to bite the ventilation holes.

Don't know if I have a spood that takes to the acrylic. Does it actually do any damage to the acrylic?? Trying to change T behavior doesn't work for me. I move the water bowl and they still tip it over, fill it with substrate etc,etc. I think you're T is trying to figure a way out and is exploring the vent holes. With that said is it all the holes or some. If it we're specific holes I would say try putting something over the holes like tape, maybe to discourage them. They may molt out this behavior as well. I really don't think you did anything to upset the T. I believe it's exploring...or planning to bust out. Lol.

 

[poodude289]

Don't know if I have a spood that takes to the acrylic. Does it actually do any damage to the acrylic?? Trying to change T behavior doesn't work for me. I move the water bowl and they still tip it over, fill it with substrate etc,etc. I think you're T is trying to figure a way out and is exploring the vent holes. With that said is it all the holes or some. If it we're specific holes I would say try putting something over the holes like tape, maybe to discourage them. They may molt out this behavior as well. I really don't think you did anything to upset the T. I believe it's exploring...or planning to bust out. Lol.

I hope that's it, this all started after I changed things around in its home.

 

[Eighth Eye Blind]

I have a G. pulchripes who does the same thing. She's otherwise fat and happy. She's been doing it for months with no apparent ill affect.

I think she's just trying to annoy me.

 

[x_raphael_xx]

I think they just like to test the fences for weaknesses.
My goliath likes to test her teeth on her tarantula cribs too.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Would they be like a Velocirantula then lol,lol! Or Taranaraptor!!! Lol! I like both actually!! Happy Spoodering!