Should I Be Concerned ?

[Tynan918]

My T's enclosure started to develop mold and fruit flies so I began cleaning the enclosure.

I wanted to remove the T to get all the mold out.

I lifted the hide slowly and found it sitting behind a T molt. It molted.

It's been in the hide for about a month or more, refused to eat since late October, have had it since August this year.
I walked her into a plastic container and kept her there until I cleaned out the enclosure, then put her back in it.

I've caught the T laying on it's side a couple of times, like it's slumped over taking a nap...

and when I slightly touch it, it responds and stands normally and gives me a threat poses, showing me it's new white fangs...

Should I be concerned about it laying down the way it has been doing recently ?

 

[Le_kelscifer]

Hi there. Under no circumstance should you've of moved them or bothered them after their molt. They're very vulnerable in that state. I know you needed to clean but I would have waited. Mold/fruit flies aren't a major concern as compared to a freshly molted T. Please let them be for now and just make sure they've got water.

 

[m0lsx]

Your T looks like a Theraphosa. Either a blondi or a stirmi, I would guess. And if so a high humidity enclosure, is what they like. Especially after a molt. And high humidity, means moist substrate. So just buy some springtaails & a tub of dried yeast, as used for baking & get rid of the mold that way. We use a fly zapper & sticky fly paper to keep fruit flies down.

The yeast is to feed your springtails & keep them happy, once they have eaten all of the mold. As a small sprinkling of yeast creates more mold & keeps them happy for when unwanted mold pops up. I keep a spare tub of springtails that I can add, even to dry enclosures.

 

[Tynan918]

Thanks guys !

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Your T could also still be lethargic from the molt. The bigger the T the longer the process, recovery, etc. And as stated above if T is, has ,or about to molt leave them be. It's very important to the T's well being.