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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nicolas C" data-source="post: 66898" data-attributes="member: 3795">Yes, she looks skinny in the picture. This could very well be because of the two months+ starving before finding home at your place. The abdomen is a little bit too skinny for a captive tarantula. And the fact that she needs water so badly is puzzling too.These are some ideas you could explore.- Are you 100% sure it's not a mature male? On the picture, the pedipalps don't look like this, but maybe a closer photo of them taken front or under could help us be certain that she's a lady. If a male, it would explain the constant roaming and the skinny abdomen...- The bald spot looks dark on the photo, and the colors of the prosoma are rather grey. It could indicate a coming molt. But it's not always easy to tell from a picture. I'm not 100% sure she's in premolt, but your photo makes me think she is.- If she's in premolt, it is unlikely she has eaten the two preys. As you cannot find them, you could try to put a new cricket inside the enclosure and look closely to what happens. If she takes the cricket rather fast, it'll indicate she's very hungry (and not in heavy premolt). If the cricket takes a walk around her and she does nothing (or just a threat pause), then it's not about lack of food.- About the water: I've had a tarantula who drank a lot and spinned also a lot (and moved in a clumsy way). Unfortunately, she was sick and died rapidly. If your Grammostola is always drinking, it's a bad sign in my book. You can do nothing else than keep the waterdish clean and full. But don't panic: she could very well only be dehydrated because of the two months of bad husbandry. But if that's the case, she should stop drinking soon. You can try to add some water in a corner of the enclosure (not too much, but enough to make it moist) and see what happens. If your Grammostola goes there and stays there, it gives you a clue that she needs this moisture. If she needs it, you can give it to her, until she gets better.- She could have been hurt and have lost hemolymph/blood (which could be why she needs water). But I can't see any wound on the photo. Then probably not...That's all I can think of right now. Keep caring for her as you do, you do good and that's important! Try to give food, try to moisten a little part of the substrate, look at her behavior, it'll tell you what she needs and likes. For the rest, it's difficult to know what's happening...</blockquote>

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