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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 206062" data-attributes="member: 27444">I agree with you. Not a good video at all....ICUs are pure rubbish and should not be practiced at all. It's so far from the original idea that was brought in to the hobby. Its like that game you whisper something in one person's ear and eventually 20 people later it is something totally different. The original was a unnamed person we all know placed a lifeless spider in a fish tank with gravel and a little water. It sprung back to life. Dehydration. Poor husbandry was to blame. Now the world thinks placing a spider in a humid box cures all. Well it doesn't, it actually kills more then it saves.  Don't we tell people to not worry about humidity? Not to mention the added stress people. Come on. (Don't get me started on stress) lol. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />I'd bet that the hornworms fed to the Ops spider infact my have been the problem. Hornworms if feed the wrong food  (tobacco or tomatoes) will kill invertebrates. Who knows where the worms came from originally.Instead of a ICU leave the spider be, don't mess with it. Water the substrate under the spider. Tarantulas will drink from the soil. If the spider is weak you can lay it on its back and place water on its mouth periodically.  However leave it on its back, dont keep rolling it around.  Its fine on its back. You can also move its water dish closer so it can drink if its more active.  Even prop it up onto it to drink. Up the temperature in the room. I like 85-90 degrees . It seams to have worked well for the spiders I have rescued.  Your trying at this point to get it to molt out. I've saved a few spider doing this.  It's so much easier on the spider this way then taking it out of its home.</blockquote>

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