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Message: <blockquote data-quote="voguishceaser" data-source="post: 188417" data-attributes="member: 35900"><p>I am a new tarantula owner who had an avicularia, she lived on pure coco fiber and she was fed a diet of superworm who ate kale/pumpkin alternating every 2nd day. i kept her substrate light dampened, with a water dish in the corner i filled and cleaned daily. However, one morning i was getting ready for work and she was doing almost lap like motions from the bottom left to the top right of her enclosure occasionally stopping at the bottom right to almost rest. I left for work, retuned home about 15hrs later to find her dead in her enclosure. Her front 4 legs were pressed into the substrate along with her fangs, while her abdomen was flipped about a 90 degree angle forwards and her back legs off the side wall, all of her legs were uncurled. I quickly removed her environment and put her into ICU in an attempt to see if she was still alive but a few hours passed and she was still completely unresponsive. As I stated before I am really new to this hobby, and am unsure what I did wrong, if anything, but from what i know they are blood muscle creatures that curl harshly when they die, but she was not like that when I found her. In the past few weeks she had been acting oddly(I think) because when she would climb the sides or to the top of her enclosure she would almost slip, seeming as if her legs got "stuck" to the surface. any advice would be nice, as i am unsure if she was just old or if i had done something wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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