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climbing and chewing on enclosure out of nowhere

Clownc0ffin

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My A. Chalcodes molted almost 4 weeks ago, she was all fine until a couple of days ago when she started climbing all over the enclosure, trying to climb the walls and crawling on the lid. Also biting the edge and constantly moving, I posted on tarantula forum, arachnaboards, reddit and even sent a Pic to the breeder, all confirmed she was not a mature male and her molt was female but I haven't changed anything. The temperature ranges from 70-75 in the house and the humidity hasn't changed. The only thing I can think of is that she's bothered that I gave her more water because it started after I poured water and let it overflow and she jumped at it and got splashed. Also here are enclosure pics. Her enclosure is a bit big but she's never had problems before except obviously when I first got her and she was stressed from shipping
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Tarantula Trooper

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The enclosure looks good but I would back off overflowing the water dish to see if that helps. You can remove the water dish for a bit to see if it is humidity driving her escape efforts.lol. My male King Baboon was fanging at the lid recently but I know he's trying to escape! Especially since their is now a mature Queen Baboon in the house. Lol,lol
 

Clownc0ffin

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The enclosure looks good but I would back off overflowing the water dish to see if that helps. You can remove the water dish for a bit to see if it is humidity driving her escape efforts.lol. My male King Baboon was fanging at the lid recently but I know he's trying to escape! Especially since their is now a mature Queen Baboon in the house. Lol,lol
Thank you so much for the advice! I swear I feel like I post here every week asking for advice but she just surprises me every time
 

Tarantula Trooper

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Thank you so much for the advice! I swear I feel like I post here every week asking for advice but she just surprises me every time
They can throw a lot of the old curve ball at you at times no doubt! Have a bit of a puzzle with my Chilobrachys Guangxiensis!! He/She has not molted in over 2 and a half years! Abdomen big for bout that long and bout 4 " DLS. Kept and have a lot of Chilobrachys and never had any old worlder go this long without molting. Seems fine and just will wait and wait and wait....lol. Happy Spoodering!
 

Clownc0ffin

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They can throw a lot of the old curve ball at you at times no doubt! Have a bit of a puzzle with my Chilobrachys Guangxiensis!! He/She has not molted in over 2 and a half years! Abdomen big for bout that long and bout 4 " DLS. Kept and have a lot of Chilobrachys and never had any old worlder go this long without molting. Seems fine and just will wait and wait and wait....lol. Happy Spoodering!
Haha it really is just learning and growing with them. They're so interesting and from what it seems there's not that much research done on them. New things everyday!:) My girl finally settled down after I added more fake plants for her to hide in but today she suddenly decided she was going to run around again
To add to that, she's been desperately trying to move this fake plant that's too stiff for her and she's been at it for days. I feel kind of bad
 

Tarantula Trooper

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That plant moving is good enrichment for them...lol. My Cyratogyrus Brachycephalus just buried everything but a bit of the cork bark hide and I mean everything. Spaghnum moss, oak leaf litter, water dish all buried and gone! Such is T keeping! Wreck all your pretty decorations...lol
 
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