Weird quirks your tarantulas have

[<3ley]

I just got thinking about this while “resetting” my t. stirmi again, what other people’s spiders do things that there isn’t really a good explanation for other than “they’re just weird”.

I’ll go first, my example when I mean “resetting” my stirmi: my t. stirmi, over the hours of the day, slowly inches out of its hide. It’s a straight diagonal line from the hide to the water dish and as I check on the T throughout the day, it progressively gets closer and closer to the dish. I don’t actually see it move, just every couple hours or so if I’m in the room the Ts are in the stirmi is a little closer to the water dish. It’ll get to the point where I see it resting its feet on the water dish, but drinking isn’t the goal. When it finally reaches the destination then BAM. Dirt in the water dish. Not even a lot of it, like burying it either, just a clump that gets flung in. I’ve observed this behavior for several days in a row and every time the stirmi gets close enough to the water dish it’ll fling a singular clump of dirt in, and I’ll have to get it to move away (usually by using my mini spray bottle and spraying the spot directly next to it) so I can pick the dirt out of the water dish without my tongs getting attacked (my stirmi is very enthusiastic about food and thinks most things=food). It’s like living with a minigame, one of those games of “don’t let x get to y” things. Don’t let the stirmi get to the water dish or a singular but large clump of dirt will be thrown into the water dish. It’s literally happened regularly a few nights in a row, from dawn til dusk, my stirmi gradually inching forward to complete the ultimate goal of throwing a bit of dirt in the water dish again. I don’t know why it does it.

So anyway, what weird behaviors do your Ts exhibit that you can’t really explain? I kinda really want to hear about them lol.

 

[kboo4u]

I just got thinking about this while “resetting” my t. stirmi again, what other people’s spiders do things that there isn’t really a good explanation for other than “they’re just weird”.

I’ll go first, my example when I mean “resetting” my stirmi: my t. stirmi, over the hours of the day, slowly inches out of its hide. It’s a straight diagonal line from the hide to the water dish and as I check on the T throughout the day, it progressively gets closer and closer to the dish. I don’t actually see it move, just every couple hours or so if I’m in the room the Ts are in the stirmi is a little closer to the water dish. It’ll get to the point where I see it resting its feet on the water dish, but drinking isn’t the goal. When it finally reaches the destination then BAM. Dirt in the water dish. Not even a lot of it, like burying it either, just a clump that gets flung in. I’ve observed this behavior for several days in a row and every time the stirmi gets close enough to the water dish it’ll fling a singular clump of dirt in, and I’ll have to get it to move away (usually by using my mini spray bottle and spraying the spot directly next to it) so I can pick the dirt out of the water dish without my tongs getting attacked (my stirmi is very enthusiastic about food and thinks most things=food). It’s like living with a minigame, one of those games of “don’t let x get to y” things. Don’t let the stirmi get to the water dish or a singular but large clump of dirt will be thrown into the water dish. It’s literally happened regularly a few nights in a row, from dawn til dusk, my stirmi gradually inching forward to complete the ultimate goal of throwing a bit of dirt in the water dish again. I don’t know why it does it.

So anyway, what weird behaviors do your Ts exhibit that you can’t really explain? I kinda really want to hear about them lol.

This isn’t much of a silly quirk but something that once really concerned me for awhile. My T didn’t eat anything for a year and a half. Every time I offered her food she would either be stagnant or actually run away from it and hide. I read up on it and I know that Ts will fast occasionally, but after she had hit the year mark of no food I was anticipating the worst outcome. However, just a couple months ago she started eating again. Just out of the blue. And was boy was she hungry. She just finished a moly a couple days ago. I don’t think she’s dying? Idk. Very strange to say the least but overall I’m just glad she’s still with us .

 

[kboo4u]

This isn’t much of a silly quirk but something that once really concerned me for awhile. My T didn’t eat anything for a year and a half. Every time I offered her food she would either be stagnant or actually run away from it and hide. I read up on it and I know that Ts will fast occasionally, but after she had hit the year mark of no food I was anticipating the worst outcome. However, just a couple months ago she started eating again. Just out of the blue. And was boy was she hungry. She just finished a moly a couple days ago. I don’t think she’s dying? Idk. Very strange to say the least but overall I’m just glad she’s still with us .

meant to say molt instead of moly.

 

[<3ley]

This isn’t much of a silly quirk but something that once really concerned me for awhile. My T didn’t eat anything for a year and a half. Every time I offered her food she would either be stagnant or actually run away from it and hide. I read up on it and I know that Ts will fast occasionally, but after she had hit the year mark of no food I was anticipating the worst outcome. However, just a couple months ago she started eating again. Just out of the blue. And was boy was she hungry. She just finished a moly a couple days ago. I don’t think she’s dying? Idk. Very strange to say the least but overall I’m just glad she’s still with us .

Oh man, I understand that. My emilia is the same way! His abdomen is looking concerningly small right now but he’ll spend six hours standing directly on top of a worm and not even think about eating it once. I know spiders know how to spider but god does it cause concern anyway.

 

[Starlightkitsune]

About ten years ago I had a male A. seemanni that would threat display at their hide, for hours sometimes. I eventually took out the hide put after some months since he wasn't using it anyways, I figured maybe it was stressing him out or shadows were hitting it weird or something and he would chill out afterwards. Nope. He kept regularly threat displaying at nothing for the rest of his days with no apparent cause and not really showing any signs of stress besides that. He was just weird.

 

[fuzzylover]

I have a G pulcra that puts her meal worm carcasses in her water dish