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Message: <blockquote data-quote="&lt;3ley" data-source="post: 225499" data-attributes="member: 42246">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.</blockquote>

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