OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

[Lori P]

I havn't read every page, but did we ever hear of what became of that unfortunate store keeper? It sounds like he may end up needing rescuing! Certainly if I were to get at him...

You know, the whole experience actually gave me a migraine out of sheer frustration. He was so condescending and so outwardly uncaring. I started out with him calmly, rationally, but at his complete lack of interest in what I was saying, my head kind of exploded and I ended up in a sarcastic, nasty, loud rant to him and for the benefit the other customers, then left and never went back. I reported him to the BBB, not that that does anything. And I called into the local animal control, but again, he did nothing to break any law, it's just a complaint on record if they ever get enough to do anything. I think I may have called him an uneducated uncaring maggot, but that may have just been in the dream I had the next few nights.

I don't handle confrontations well.

[Loren]

Lori, thats one awesome looking tarrantula cage.

[anji1971]

Love the goat skull!! Tatiana's new place looks nice, Lori.

[drache]

Lori
you're an inspiration
that is a great set-up - Tatiana's got it made
I bet she blesses the moment you snatched her out of those evil ignoramuses' hands

[Samm]

i had one when i was younger,there very cool pets..once i got over the fear of it D:

i never knew they shed there skin...i came home from school one day and thought it was giveing birth

[Charlet_2007]

lol no a 10g is fine actually to big but thats as big as it needs just letting you in on something i would take the skull out ( very cool tho) because they can fall from not very far at all and it'll kill them..

[Lori P]

Natalie, she climbs to the top of the tank frequently too... and I guess could easily fall from the glass as well as from the skull or from the foam "rock" I have propped up in there. And you know, she covers every bit of that 10 gallon-- she's really quite active!! For a long time when I got her she was so low key... guess she's feeling better now, more secure or something. She's a very cool girl!!

[Lori P]

Hey tarantula people-- I'm reserecting this thread because I think Tati may be ill-- she has been very low key for a while now, not eating as well as she used to, and then yesterday I noticed she was hunched down in a corner under a hide, with her legs pulled in. I thought maybe she was getting ready to molt, but, this morning she was in exactly the same spot. I very, very gently lifted her out because I thought she might actually have died, but she did (barely) move. Her legs are pulled up tight and in fact, when I lifted her, some of the substrate came with her.

She did eliminate in my hand... yellow fluid.

Here is what she looked like:



I put her back right where she was and there she sits. Any ideas?? Could this be a precursor to a molt?? Any thoughts would be great...

Thanks!!!!

[Loren]

Hi Lori!
It could very well just be getting ready to molt, Lori, but I dont know for sure. We will see what some of the other T keepers think- but I am thinking that they sometimes go almost dead looking like that for days before molting if I remember right.

[Garter_Gertie]

Lori, you are a finer lover o'anjumuls than I, Ghung Din. You've the balls of a brass monkey.

I salute you for your nerve - and love - of icky, scary spiders.

You're awesome.

P.S. Hippo Birdies Two Ewes. Sorry I missed it. $ probs and constraints and all that. LOVE YOU!