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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ross Mac" data-source="post: 25725" data-attributes="member: 2817">Hi, thank you.  We bought him a young red kneed tarantula and we followed all instructions from the man at the shop who apparently has twenty himself so thought we were in good hands (and probably were).  It was eating a cricket every two days, has had water gel and water added.  It has been picked up each day and handled gently by us all and seemed to be enjoying walking up our arms.  Then it stopped eating.  I was told it may be ready for shedding and to watch out for it going on its back and to remove crickets when this happened so we have been watching.  I noticed yesterday it was curled up but on its front so picked it up and it was quieter than usual so put it back thinking it would shed soon.  But this morning it was dead.  We feel that we have let this little spider down and have no idea where we went wrong.  I'm not sure yet weather we will get him another but want to make sure we get it right next time if we do.Thank you</blockquote>