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Wondering if anyone here has an O. sp "Cebu" and can tell me anything about this particular spider's behavior...from your personal experience. I have read everything I can about it, but I still have questions for anyone who's raised one.
I ask because mine has seemed to be somewhat "off" since I got it. At least, it's nothing like my other T's. Bullet points of my experience, so far, with this T:
1. When I got it, it seemed to kind of drag it's back 2/4 legs, while clawing with it's front 4. Although, I DID see it move those legs, so they weren't paralyzed. Did notice, though, that the back legs would seem to get "hung up" in stuff it was climbing over, as though it couldn't retract it's claws, or something.
2. Noticed on 2nd day that it was missing a leg from pair 3.
Wondered if I got it that way,& just didn't notice, or if the claw problem mentioned above helped to pull it off. Never found the leg. Still getting around WELL, and webbed up it's entire enclosure overnight...laid a big carpet. Also made a tunnel to it's burrow under the cork bark I put in...with the tunnel open.
3. Put a cricket in...got a bolus back. Good.
4. Looked into it's burrow once and saw it sitting there with one leg in the air, high up...like higher than it's abdomen. I tapped the top of the cage, it put it's leg down. Then, the leg floated up again. Tapped, leg down, leg floats up again. Tap, down, up...did this about 8 times, then quit. Hmmm.
5. Went into it's burrow about 3 weeks ago, sealed it, and hasn't come out. I got lucky and saw it moving 2 days ago thru a tinywebbed-over peephole that's there. WHEW...still alive!
It's about 1.5", so not a BABY, but still young. What am I seeing here? Is this a freaky, neurotic spider? Damage from shipping, somehow? Or...could this be the dreaded DKS? I am at a loss here...
All opinions welcome on it's weird behavior...anyone seen this in any other species of T?
I ask because mine has seemed to be somewhat "off" since I got it. At least, it's nothing like my other T's. Bullet points of my experience, so far, with this T:
1. When I got it, it seemed to kind of drag it's back 2/4 legs, while clawing with it's front 4. Although, I DID see it move those legs, so they weren't paralyzed. Did notice, though, that the back legs would seem to get "hung up" in stuff it was climbing over, as though it couldn't retract it's claws, or something.
2. Noticed on 2nd day that it was missing a leg from pair 3.
Wondered if I got it that way,& just didn't notice, or if the claw problem mentioned above helped to pull it off. Never found the leg. Still getting around WELL, and webbed up it's entire enclosure overnight...laid a big carpet. Also made a tunnel to it's burrow under the cork bark I put in...with the tunnel open.3. Put a cricket in...got a bolus back. Good.
4. Looked into it's burrow once and saw it sitting there with one leg in the air, high up...like higher than it's abdomen. I tapped the top of the cage, it put it's leg down. Then, the leg floated up again. Tapped, leg down, leg floats up again. Tap, down, up...did this about 8 times, then quit.
Hmmm.5. Went into it's burrow about 3 weeks ago, sealed it, and hasn't come out. I got lucky and saw it moving 2 days ago thru a tinywebbed-over peephole that's there. WHEW...still alive!
It's about 1.5", so not a BABY, but still young. What am I seeing here? Is this a freaky, neurotic spider? Damage from shipping, somehow? Or...could this be the dreaded DKS?
I am at a loss here...All opinions welcome on it's weird behavior...anyone seen this in any other species of T?
