Is this something to worry about?

[poodude289]

G. Pulchra made a tunnel burrow under the front entrance to its hide on the inside, effectively removing the path upward out of the burrow. Should I be worried about this? I'm a bit concerned now because it has no path to walk out anymore, it's just a hole on the inside where the entrance to the hide used to be.

 

[poodude289]

I can't even leave pre-killed food for it any more because I can't without sticking the tweezers into the burrow itself rather than the entrance and it's all awkward.

 

[poodude289]

It was inside of its hide, and it dug down and then straight through where the ramp of substrate leading up to the exit was. Now there is no way to climb up.

 

[poodude289]

Now it's sitting in a tunnel or chamber with no functional exit — not buried, not sealed in, but effectively stuck in a pit it made.

 

[poodude289]

I should have mentioned this is a 1.25" sling

 

[Tee]

Sounds like normal and very common tarantula shenanigans. It's not stuck. Tarantulas are natural excavators and they know what they're doing when it comes to that dirt. It sounds like the behavior of a T about to go into pre-molt. That's the time when they are most physically vulnerable and do not wish to be disturbed. It will come up again when it is ready to eat. Just make sure you keep its water dish full during this time. Since it's such a small sling, when it comes up again, you may want to rehouse it into a smaller deli cup with less substrate so you can keep an eye on it.

 

[poodude289]

Sounds like normal and very common tarantula shenanigans. It's not stuck. Tarantulas are natural excavators and they know what they're doing when it comes to that dirt. It sounds like the behavior of a T about to go into pre-molt. That's the time when they are most physically vulnerable and do not wish to be disturbed. It will come up again when it is ready to eat. Just make sure you keep its water dish full during this time. Since it's such a small sling, when it comes up again, you may want to rehouse it into a smaller deli cup with less substrate so you can keep an eye on it.

I'm not going to use a deli cup lmao I'm already worried about it running out of my enclosure.

 

[m0lsx]

Nothing to worry about at all. It is just doing what teenagers the world over do. Decorating it's own room to it's own taste. Millennia of evolution, does not mean mistakes do not happen. But it does mean, that in most instances they get it right.

 

[Ratmosphere]

Normal. If you want to monitor the specimen better, put it in a smaller enclosure.

Is this your first tarantula?