VenomousFangs
Arachnopeon
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- Oct 11, 2011
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My GBB and the bathroom! A experience that I'd thought I'd share.*
Well after the amount of times it has been adviced to use the bathroom when dealing with T's I didn't realise how beneficial/burdensome this could be.
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I just recently got my first T's (5 in total) and everything went sort of ok when using the bath to put them into their enclosures/rearing jars.*
Well last night I decided to take some photos of the GBB, being that he/her is a juvenile and also that I thought it would be easier to get some good pics of a terrestrial instead of a very fast pokie.*
And so it begins, I moved the enclosure into the bath shut the door used a rolled up towel to cover the gap under the door, had everything ready in reach. The camera, 25cm tweezers, a clear air tight sandwich box (minus the lid) and a piece of card.*
I carefully uncliped the enclosure lid and lifted it of and in the few seconds it took to place the lid down and pick up the camera my little GBB was half way up the bathroom wall.*
Now I knew I had to be calm but I was panicing as I knew I had to rescue him/her lest it die by falling, so I tried to coax it into my hand but the split second it's front leg or pedipalp touched my hand it ran faster than I could see up my left arm around the back of my neck and down my right arm and back up the wall, at this point I was getting stressed out but was trying to keep calm then I remembered the sandwich box so I grabed that and tried to cover the little trouble maker but it just wouldn't stay still and I didn't want to rush and cause a injury, well when I finally had it covered another problem arose, how to get the piece of card as it was on the floor and I was standing up with my arm reached up holding the escapist in place so I had to stand one legged on tiptoe whilst using my other foot to slide the card near enough for me to reach with the tweezers.*
Finally after 45mins I finally had the blighter safely in the enclosure. I have to admit it even if I didn't get to take a photo the experience was chaos at the time but thinking about it now it was quite fun, but I'm not going to try that again in a hurry, I just hope i didn't stress out my little friend (think I might name it Stuntman?) Also I don't want to imagine what it would be like if the Singapore Blue or Mysore Ornamental got out with their speed.*
Well after the amount of times it has been adviced to use the bathroom when dealing with T's I didn't realise how beneficial/burdensome this could be.
*
I just recently got my first T's (5 in total) and everything went sort of ok when using the bath to put them into their enclosures/rearing jars.*
Well last night I decided to take some photos of the GBB, being that he/her is a juvenile and also that I thought it would be easier to get some good pics of a terrestrial instead of a very fast pokie.*
And so it begins, I moved the enclosure into the bath shut the door used a rolled up towel to cover the gap under the door, had everything ready in reach. The camera, 25cm tweezers, a clear air tight sandwich box (minus the lid) and a piece of card.*
I carefully uncliped the enclosure lid and lifted it of and in the few seconds it took to place the lid down and pick up the camera my little GBB was half way up the bathroom wall.*
Now I knew I had to be calm but I was panicing as I knew I had to rescue him/her lest it die by falling, so I tried to coax it into my hand but the split second it's front leg or pedipalp touched my hand it ran faster than I could see up my left arm around the back of my neck and down my right arm and back up the wall, at this point I was getting stressed out but was trying to keep calm then I remembered the sandwich box so I grabed that and tried to cover the little trouble maker but it just wouldn't stay still and I didn't want to rush and cause a injury, well when I finally had it covered another problem arose, how to get the piece of card as it was on the floor and I was standing up with my arm reached up holding the escapist in place so I had to stand one legged on tiptoe whilst using my other foot to slide the card near enough for me to reach with the tweezers.*
Finally after 45mins I finally had the blighter safely in the enclosure. I have to admit it even if I didn't get to take a photo the experience was chaos at the time but thinking about it now it was quite fun, but I'm not going to try that again in a hurry, I just hope i didn't stress out my little friend (think I might name it Stuntman?) Also I don't want to imagine what it would be like if the Singapore Blue or Mysore Ornamental got out with their speed.*