P metallica

[Seamus]

Hi guys just a quick question my female p Metallica has spent the last couple of days just sitting on her substrate hardly moving. Her colourings have gone dull but bald spot on abdomen just wondering if she is in pre molt . She is about 6 inches

 

[ilovebrachys]

Hi guys just a quick question my female p Metallica has spent the last couple of days just sitting on her substrate hardly moving. Her colourings have gone dull but bald spot on abdomen just wondering if she is in pre molt . She is about 6 inches

Can you put some pics up? Not great if she's on the substrate.. Has she done any webbing recently?

 

[Seamus]

Can you put some pics up? Not great if she's on the substrate.. Has she done any webbing recently?

She hasn't done any webbing. Will post pic shortly

 

[Seamus]

 

[ilovebrachys]

She looks OK to me-- she's not curling her legs in anyway - has she got a water dish in there?
She may very well moult but it's unusual to see pokies on the sub like that..

 

[Seamus]

Yes her water dish is full and lightly sprayed one side of enclosure

 

[ilovebrachys]

@Arachnoclown and @Casey K.?

 

[Seamus]

@Arachnoclown and @Casey K.?

Cheers will do

 

[menavodi]

She looks good to me. I don’t see the bald spot you pointed out... How big is that terrarium?

 

[Casey K.]

She looks fine to me. If she gets ready to molt she will lay some form of web mat. Just make sure her substrate is misted and she has water in her water dish.

 

[Seamus]

She looks good to me. I don’t see the bald spot you pointed out... How big is that terrarium?

Sorry was meant to say no bald spot

 

[Seamus]

She looks good to me. I don’t see the bald spot you pointed out... How big is that terrarium?

The terrarium is a cylindrical one 25cm diameter 30 cm height

 

[Seamus]

She looks fine to me. If she gets ready to molt she will lay some form of web mat. Just make sure her substrate is misted and she has water in her water dish.

Thanks casey already done

 

[Arachnoclown]

Bald spots...Poecilotheria don't have urticating hairs so that would never be a sign of premolt. Poecilotheria on the ground is fine...they are truley semi arboreal so this wouldn't be odd to see. Nearly all of my Poecilotheria are burrowed in the ground. Poecilotheria don't show signs of premolt physically. Besides the obvious not eating, They will web off the entrance to their burrow. Ive also seen them web a hammock on the ground out in the open. She looks healthy to me.

 

[Seamus]

Bald spots...Poecilotheria don't have urticating hairs so that would never be a sign of premolt. Poecilotheria on the ground is fine...they are truley semi arboreal so this wouldn't be odd to see. Nearly all of my Poecilotheria are burrowed in the ground. Poecilotheria don't show signs of premolt physically. Besides the obvious not eating, They will web off the entrance to their burrow. Ive also seen them web a hammock on the ground out in the open. She looks healthy to me.

Thanks for your reply

 

[ilovebrachys]

Bald spots...Poecilotheria don't have urticating hairs so that would never be a sign of premolt. Poecilotheria on the ground is fine...they are truley semi arboreal so this wouldn't be odd to see. Nearly all of my Poecilotheria are burrowed in the ground. Poecilotheria don't show signs of premolt physically. Besides the obvious not eating, They will web off the entrance to their burrow. Ive also seen them web a hammock on the ground out in the open. She looks healthy to me.

Our pokies are always half burrowed in the ground and dirt curtains and sub chucked everywhere I must say I've never seen any of ours laying on the ground like that before.. Well not where I can see them anyway

 

[Seamus]

Our pokies are always half burrowed in the ground and dirt curtains and sub chucked everywhere I must say I've never seen any of ours laying on the ground like that before.. Well not where I can see them anyway

This is the only time I have seen her on ground she usually sits on her Cork bark or on 5he side of her enclosure

 

[Pamela mansfield]

Hi guys just a quick question my female p Metallica has spent the last couple of days just sitting on her substrate hardly moving. Her colourings have gone dull but bald spot on abdomen just wondering if she is in pre molt . She is about 6 inches

I would say yes my theraposa stirmi took a total of 3 months with being a big spider only moved to drink when shes close you will see her abdomen go darker with the new hairs underneath