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Stress curl: legit stress or just his version of a hide?
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<blockquote data-quote="goldenpumpkin" data-source="post: 200033" data-attributes="member: 37657"><p>Hi all, I wasn't sure if this was worth making a new thread about but couldn't find any existing threads about it so here we are. So, I've now had my MM curly hair for 5 days, and in the past couple of days he's been going back and forth between acting perfectly fine (ex: eating, pooping, laying down with his legs stretched out, making sperm webs, webbing up his hide) and being in stress curl, for what seems like no reason. I will note that he does not burrow or use his hide, so could this "stress curl" just be his own little version of a "hide"? No matter what he does, he tends to stay in the same corner of his enclosure for the past couple days, so I guess that's just where he likes to be. However, if it IS legitimately from stress, I'm not sure what the culprit could be, as I've already covered all my bases. For example, his substrate/enclosure setup is already ideal, he has a proper day/night cycle (though I try to make sure the light isn't overly bright), he access to a water dish so he doesn't have a reason to be dehydrated, I've ruled out expressway fever as his enclosure stays in my room which doesn't get loud or lots of traffic, and my house is room temperature so he shouldn't be too cold or hot. I HAVE been doing stuff in his enclosure (refreshing water dish just in case, wiping poop off the wall), but the stress curl doesn't appear to have correlation to that, as he does it even well after I've left him alone. He stayed in stress curl all night long last night and still is as of right now, which is a record for him, so I am a bit worried. Let me know if y'all need anymore information from me in order to pin down the culprit. Thanks!</p><p></p><p>PS- I'm about to go out of town for 3 days and if he's still in stress curl when I get back I am going into full panic mode :')</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goldenpumpkin, post: 200033, member: 37657"] Hi all, I wasn't sure if this was worth making a new thread about but couldn't find any existing threads about it so here we are. So, I've now had my MM curly hair for 5 days, and in the past couple of days he's been going back and forth between acting perfectly fine (ex: eating, pooping, laying down with his legs stretched out, making sperm webs, webbing up his hide) and being in stress curl, for what seems like no reason. I will note that he does not burrow or use his hide, so could this "stress curl" just be his own little version of a "hide"? No matter what he does, he tends to stay in the same corner of his enclosure for the past couple days, so I guess that's just where he likes to be. However, if it IS legitimately from stress, I'm not sure what the culprit could be, as I've already covered all my bases. For example, his substrate/enclosure setup is already ideal, he has a proper day/night cycle (though I try to make sure the light isn't overly bright), he access to a water dish so he doesn't have a reason to be dehydrated, I've ruled out expressway fever as his enclosure stays in my room which doesn't get loud or lots of traffic, and my house is room temperature so he shouldn't be too cold or hot. I HAVE been doing stuff in his enclosure (refreshing water dish just in case, wiping poop off the wall), but the stress curl doesn't appear to have correlation to that, as he does it even well after I've left him alone. He stayed in stress curl all night long last night and still is as of right now, which is a record for him, so I am a bit worried. Let me know if y'all need anymore information from me in order to pin down the culprit. Thanks! PS- I'm about to go out of town for 3 days and if he's still in stress curl when I get back I am going into full panic mode :') [/QUOTE]
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