Preserving Dead Ts?

[gh0st_dreams]

Hi I'm still new here so I'm not sure if this is where I should post this, but we're here! My first tarantula, Marcus, is getting old and will likely die this summer. I live in an apartment so it's not like I have a yard to bury him in and I don't want to just throw him away. I've seen a lot of people put their dead Ts in shadow boxes but I can't find a good tutorial. I have a LP so the hairs are really irritating and I know they're still active after death. I don't want to get hairs, though I could wear gloves easily. But I'm still worried about the body rotting or something if I were to put him in a shadow box. Do I have to clean out his guts or something? I'm just not sure how to go about this, any advice would be helpful! But no rush because he probably still has a few more months

 

[x_raphael_xx]

I actually have a video due to go live on wednesday showing how I did one of mine My youtube is @thezooroom.

Basically, you need to clean out the abodomen, turn him onto his back, make as small a slit as possible & use q-tips to clean out the gunk. Then roll up tiny balls of tissue paper and restuff the butt (smaller bits of paper gets a better shape than big balls of paper.
Then pin him into a nice position, and pop him in a tub with silica beads to dry him out. After a while (he will still be a little smelly) the silica beads will dry out any left over goo, and he'll be good to frame.

You can just pin & stick him in a silica tub without stuffing the abdomen, but the silica will absorb all the moisture and his butt will shrivel

 

[x_raphael_xx]

 

[Josh]

Post a link to the video!

 

[x_raphael_xx]

It goes live tonight at 6pm my time. I'll post a link when I get back from my boxing class

 

[x_raphael_xx]

Here you go!!