I have a tarantula that never came out of her hide, and I found her dead.

[Tyler Kuykendall]

She webbed her hide heavily, and I NEVER saw her out of it - I never found cricket remains outside of it. I didn't have a water lid in her enclosure, but I didn't think she needed it a lot; and I put off getting her her own dish until, checking her enclosure a year after I got her (during which I haven't changed the substrate, but was going to afterward), her corpse fell out of her hide after I picked it up. It's just too late. I just want to burst into tears right now knowing that I could've done better in keeping her. I never did see her outside her hide, but that's not an excuse.

 

[Enn49]

I'm sorry for your loss but all tarantulas need a water bowl not only for drinking but it helps keep the humidity right.

 

[Kymura]

Positive it wasn't an exo from a molt?
Double check for burrows just in case.

 

[Tomoran]

+1 on both the water dish and making sure that the corpse wasn't an old molt. I almost made that mistake before (found the very live spider further down!).

If it is indeed dead, my apologies.

What species was this?

 

[Tyler Kuykendall]

I checked the hide, and it was indeed her body. No burrows. She was a pumpkin patch.

 

[Tomoran]

Awwwww...so sorry to hear that. Are you sure it wasn't a male? My male matured in about a year and was gone very quickly afterward. Was it kept moist or dry?

Again...

 

[Kymura]

So sorry hun :,(

 

[MassExodus]

Sorry to hear this. Enn49 is correct, all spiders should have a dish, or be misted regularly (and monitored more closely, without a dish with fresh water). That doesn't mean your spider dehydrated, but it sounds as if you think it did. Also, in my opinion H. Sp Columbia need a little extra moisture as slings. I've seen several posts about molting issues, and many people seem to think they do well dry..I don't agree. My six are doing very well, and while I let all mine dry out regularly, I mostly keep them fairly moist. Just sharing my own experience with them,not criticizing Sorry for your troubles.

 

[kormath]

I keep all slings except the rosea on moist substrate until they're about 1.5 - 2" and have developed that waterproof layer on their exo.