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I thought I'd start a thread on one of my latest acquisitions, my tiny 1cm B. auratum, who, from the second I first housed it 4 days ago, is trying it's damnest to escape!
The first day, I watched it do laps around the sides of the enclosure, trying to stick a leg or a pedipalp through the tiny airholes. And not just out of curiousity either. It was making a concerted attempt at it, it's whole body tensed and involved in trying to fit more than half a leg through! Thank goodness the airholes are too small or I'd have lost it by now. The lid is airtight too.
It's been up to the same again tonight. It managed half a leg out of one. I know it can't get out but it was still disconcerting to see the leg waving out on my side of the enclosure. It's now up by the lid checking for weaknesses. What's going on with it? Does it miss it's Mexican Mommy?!! Lol
I'm worried it'll injure itself doing this. I'm also a bit put out that I've made it a lovely little enclosure, same as my other slings who are all well settled, and all the ungrateful little beep wants is to escape from it.
The substrate is more on the dry side. It's certainly not damp, that's not the reason it's up on the sides planning the Great Escape. I've overfilled the tiny waterbowl so there is a moist side and a dry side for it to choose where it wants to be. It has a lovely corkbark hide, plenty of (tiny) ventilation holes. Plus it's fed. What more could the little ingrate want? Me to hang a bloody sombrero from the lid and a Mexican flag to make the little sod feel more at home?!!
I'm just wondering has anyone else experienced this with auratums or any other species, and did they find a solution or did the tarantula eventually settle down?
Any thoughts from anyone no matter how 'out there' you may feel they are, would be gratefully received because all I want is for the little guy to settle. I have observed this behaviour from some of my albopilosums when I first housed them but they had settled within 24 hours. This has been going on 4 days!!
The first day, I watched it do laps around the sides of the enclosure, trying to stick a leg or a pedipalp through the tiny airholes. And not just out of curiousity either. It was making a concerted attempt at it, it's whole body tensed and involved in trying to fit more than half a leg through! Thank goodness the airholes are too small or I'd have lost it by now. The lid is airtight too.
It's been up to the same again tonight. It managed half a leg out of one. I know it can't get out but it was still disconcerting to see the leg waving out on my side of the enclosure. It's now up by the lid checking for weaknesses. What's going on with it? Does it miss it's Mexican Mommy?!! Lol
I'm worried it'll injure itself doing this. I'm also a bit put out that I've made it a lovely little enclosure, same as my other slings who are all well settled, and all the ungrateful little beep wants is to escape from it.
The substrate is more on the dry side. It's certainly not damp, that's not the reason it's up on the sides planning the Great Escape. I've overfilled the tiny waterbowl so there is a moist side and a dry side for it to choose where it wants to be. It has a lovely corkbark hide, plenty of (tiny) ventilation holes. Plus it's fed. What more could the little ingrate want? Me to hang a bloody sombrero from the lid and a Mexican flag to make the little sod feel more at home?!!
I'm just wondering has anyone else experienced this with auratums or any other species, and did they find a solution or did the tarantula eventually settle down?
Any thoughts from anyone no matter how 'out there' you may feel they are, would be gratefully received because all I want is for the little guy to settle. I have observed this behaviour from some of my albopilosums when I first housed them but they had settled within 24 hours. This has been going on 4 days!!