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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allthingsterrarium" data-source="post: 78959" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>Hey Guys! I'm going to be moving October, my b. boehmei, to his bigger permanent habitat probably tomorrow or even much later tonight if I'm up to it so he'll probably be a little bit stressed out during the adjustment process. I worry a little bit because in the past he has been really grumpy whenever I have cleaned his habitat and put him back in when it's and he he's acted strangely in surroundings that have been changed even slightly, not eating for a week or more after. I bring this up because for his water dish for the past year I've just been using the lid of an old yeast jar since he's still rather small and the other dishes I have reserved for him are still too big and deep for him and it has come time to switch out his water dish because the lid is starting to rust and that can't be good for him. The point of my question is will he accept a different water dish readily? It's going to be hard enough already to get him to drink for the next week or so while he adjusts to his new surroundings and I know that some animals are most comfortable with familiar territory that they see as theirs and might be picky about eating or drinking from a dish or other source that they aren't used to. Sort of like how dogs will go to the bathroom in spots where they have lots of times before. So in other words do tarantulas usually give their keepers a lot of grief when a new food or water dish is provided? Do they ignore it?</p></blockquote><p></p>

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