Breakout!

[Fini]

Sunday morning/night sometime my juvi G. aureostriata decided to get out for a little field trip. So far I haven't found her. :?

How far will they generally wander and should I be looking in high places?

At least she's nice.

[ilovebugs]

I don't know about that particular T, but when I've had escapes they usually ended up in the closet or somewhere.

first block off the room she's supposed to be in (so she can't get any farther), search everywhere behind and under, if no luck, follow same procedure in the next rooms.

Once mine ended up in my sisters room.
good luck

[jbrd]

G.aureo's are terestial, so i would start by lookin arond the enclosure, how big is he?

[Fini]

She's about 2.75 inches, so not too big. I've looked everywhere around the spider zone, but I haven't found her yet. Our place doesn't have rooms; it's a classic 2nd story flat. We have one big room, but there are a lot of hiding places. She would have had a pretty good fall too; hard to say what kind of health she's in.

The search continues at 5PM PST.

[metallica]

i bought glue traps just for cases like this! sure it sounds cruel to the spider, but once it molts there are no ill effects what so ever! you could even hang the spider trapped on the gluetrap up side down, to help the T molt!

[ilovebugs]

well, when my rosie got into my sisters room, it had a fall of about 4' onto a hardwood floor/rug(not sure where she hit) she was fine, no injuries that I could tell, and she lived for a long time after.

chances are she's right under your nose. just be careful not to step on her,and check your shoes befor putting them on :-)

also, see if there are hiding places under things, cabinets, shelves ect...

[ilovebugs]

i bought glue traps just for cases like this! sure it sounds cruel to the spider, but once it molts there are no ill effects what so ever! you could even hang the spider trapped on the gluetrap up side down, to help the T molt!


are you serious?

I don't think that sounds like a good idea. it could pull off it's legs/palps/spinnerettes, sure they can grow those back but why take the risk, it could even bleed to death.

could it be possible that a T could pull it's abdoman off? be that the case, I kind of doubt those regenerate, no matter how many molts.

[Cheshire]

I think he means hang the T upside down while it's still attached to the glue trap.

My question is how would you keep the T from sticking to the glue trap once it's moulted.

I guess you could cut around the Ts feet, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too happy about that, especially if it's a haplopelma or an OBT

[Tescos]

are you serious?

I don't think that sounds like a good idea. it could pull off it's legs/palps/spinnerettes, sure they can grow those back but why take the risk, it could even bleed to death.

could it be possible that a T could pull it's abdoman off? be that the case, I kind of doubt those regenerate, no matter how many molts.

Of course Eddy is serious and it works really well too. You can see in the Pic that I had an escapee E.pachypus that I caught again, with this methord, and it moulted out just fine after 4 months!
:liar: :liar: :liar: :liar:

[Waryur]

did you seriouly keep a tarantula in a glue trap for four months until it molted....


I had an OBT escape and found it two months later, having an escape is quite an ordeal! My best advice is to look very closly at everything within 10 feet. Are they any bookselves to get behind, or desks to crawl under and into the draws? Be creative get on the gorund and think like a spdier, where the the closest safest place place to go?

[Gwegowee]

So... did you just put her food in her mouth for her? WOW 4 months!!

[ilovebugs]

So... did you just put her food in her mouth for her? WOW 4 months!!


read his post again, note pinochio's
he prolly stuck an old skin on it for the pic.

[syndicate]

haha bunch of jokers

[Spydergirl31]

Hee-hee, I agree most amusing tale re' the glue paper or whatever....well at least you guys/gals have a sense of humor!

[Squirrelcore8]

I had ordered 2 Suntigers and a Trinidad Chevron from Botarby8's(who are great by the way) and Balor(Chevron) was a sling. Were talking a inch tops. The first night I had her/him it crawled out of a vent hold I drilled in side of the crappy walmart aquirium it lives in. No where to be found after 4 hours and I had to go to class. Sh*t, Shave, Shower and pull on some clothes. One of the 30 odd shirts hanging in the closet was exactally where Balor was hiding only because of its size I didnt notice right away. As I was brushing my teeth I noticed the sling emerging from my shirt and crawling up my neck. I brushed it off and then the hunt was on. This is the fastest insect Ive ever seen. 2 solid minutes of comical pursuit and it was over. At any rate yeah, they hide in the closet and I think its just to scare you.

The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime. The bad news is were not average.

Squirrel

[JaxsWastedLife]

I'm SquirrelCores Roomate. That little critter has escaped again. Even though the holes were taped up. The little sling left some hairs on the tape it pushed aside. Let the hunt begin.
:eek:

[xWARxPATHx]

Simple trick with glue traps, use vegetable oil and a pencil whatever is stuck to it slides right off.

[Gwegowee]

oh ok... yeah.... sometimes I dont notice the obvious.

[Parahybana3590]

I had ordered 2 Suntigers and a Trinidad Chevron from Botarby8's(who are great by the way) and Balor(Chevron) was a sling. Were talking a inch tops. The first night I had her/him it crawled out of a vent hold I drilled in side of the crappy walmart aquirium it lives in. No where to be found after 4 hours and I had to go to class. Sh*t, Shave, Shower and pull on some clothes. One of the 30 odd shirts hanging in the closet was exactally where Balor was hiding only because of its size I didnt notice right away. As I was brushing my teeth I noticed the sling emerging from my shirt and crawling up my neck. I brushed it off and then the hunt was on. This is the fastest insect Ive ever seen. 2 solid minutes of comical pursuit and it was over. At any rate yeah, they hide in the closet and I think its just to scare you.

The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime. The bad news is were not average.

Squirrel

Lol, thats awesome man. If mine ever got out though my mom would have a friggen heart attack! Last night one of my stick-bugs got loose in the kitchen (I was cleaning the tank) and ten minutes later my mom found it on a spatchula and screamed!It was hillarious :D--I mean...uhh...*herm* It was very careless and inapropriate and it won't happen again...:D

[smof]

The average human will eat 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime. The bad news is were not average.

Squirrel

Sorry to be pedantic, but that's an urban myth.

Carry on ;)

[Fini]

So talk about your old thread resurrections; I never thought I'd post on this again, but as it turned out, Saturday my lost little Chaco came home.

I lost her last November when she escaped her enclosure and after many many searches I had assumed she perished; but this last Saturday my dogs were hovering around something on the floor when my wife screamed at me. It was the Chaco; skinny, slow and looking a little worse for wear, but still kicking.

I quickly gathered her up and placed her into a mini-kritter keeper with no substrate, a shallow dish or water and a half-dead cricket (Chaco not so quick right now. I wasn't even sure she'd make in an hour when I found her). She did end up eating the cricket and looks to have even taken some water. Is there anything else I should be doing at this point?

Poor thing was covered in dirt and looked really shabby. There is no telling where she's been living all these months.

So I feel the need to name her now that she's survived this trial. Any name suggestions?

[rosehaired1979]

If you haven't already go ahead and put her in a enclosure w/substrate. Just keep feeding her and let her have access to water. If she gets worse put her in a ICU . Great job in finding her and alive as well :)

[Aunt Ant]

That's really uplifting!:clap:
I'll suggest "Ayla" for a name, the main character from the Clan of the Cave Bear books. She was a really hardy chick who survived being out on her own. And her hair was gold/blonde too. (BTW I'd recommend the novel... not the movie)
Congratulations!

[Marcelo]

Hello guys,


Well, I had my first escapee last week, I was so frighten that I thought it was definetly the end of the tarantulas hobbie for me, bye bye to my 800ish -900ish tarantulas, Im counting slings too.

Here is the story, right after I noticed the scape of my 14 cm Brachypelma auratum female I called my friend Rodrigo (bananaman) he did not hesitate at all to come and help me, even though it was 11:00pm. I will make the long story short. I live in a three story/floors house, and my T was living in the first floor along with some other Ts, we just began to search everywere like CIA agents looking for drugs just like the traffic movie. I have a gas heather and guess what?? we tought the tarantula was hiding there so I did not hesitate to turn it on, especting a frighten running tarantula but nothing happens.

Then we move to the second floor, were the living room, kitchen and dinning room are located. We began to search at the living room so I began to lift every sofa cushion, suddenly I lifted one cushion and for my surprise, she was liying there. I could not speak at all. All I can do was just point at her, and Banaman get it back. It took us more than 2 1/2 hours to find her and a hole day to recover.

Tomorrow she will fly to Cancun, I will trade her for some other tarantulas. I hope she can scape back to my house. I will miss her.

[cricket54]

My grandson knocked one of my GBB babies containers on the floor 3 weeks ago while I was in CA. I was vacuming the kitchen and saw it, but he got away. Last night I was cleaning the counter and he came running out from under the toaster onto the floor where I trapped him. Called my daughter Laura and she helped me get him back into a container. He is fine, but real skinny. Then Alex knocked him back down again. Darn toddlers. Laura got the container and he didn't escape this time. I'll rehouse him in something today.

Just last week, Laura found my S. caleatum baby that had escaped over a month ago. He did a breakout when I opened the container to drop in a cricket. Boy, they are as fast as an OBT:eek: . It seems he was living happily under the refrigerator and he came out the day I was vacuming the kitchen and first saw the GBB baby. I don't panick anymore when a T escapes. In more then 5 yrs, all but one escapee were found eventually, and that one was a tiny geniculata sling that probably got eaten by a house spider or house centipede (or dried out). Most of the tarantulas go under the kitchen counter where its damp and survive and I can't get to them.

Sharon

[Fini]

That's really uplifting!:clap:
I'll suggest "Ayla" for a name, the main character from the Clan of the Cave Bear books. She was a really hardy chick who survived being out on her own. And her hair was gold/blonde too. (BTW I'd recommend the novel... not the movie)
Congratulations!
"Ayla" it is then.

She's doing okay, not eating, but not dead either. I wish I knew where she's been hanging out all this time. My wife doesn't share my interest in the T's and she looked at me in a very serious way; "Did you know about the escape?"

"Yeah, I didn't want you to panic so I never told you. After searching I assumed that she parished or moved out."

She replied; "That's pretty disturbing. Are there anymore lost ones?"

Hopefully this incident doesn't kill the hobby for me :(

I'm still shocked at how durable they are. I'm still amazed.

[Aunt Ant]

It's just as well you avoided the paranoia and didn't tell your wife.
I once saw a huge house centipede on the floor of my room. Tried to catch it, but it was really quick and got behind some furniture I couldn't move. I taped up the sides of my bed where it met the wall, but I still didn't sleep right for a few days. You know, dreaming it was crawling on me and such..

Make sure your wife knows you're being really careful and the enclosures are escape-proof, to ease her mind (a little).
And it wouldn't hurt to be genuinely nice and appreciative that she's tolerated the T's. It's good of her not to squash your interest, no pun intended ;)

Man, 9 months. It's amazing Ayla just showed up like that. I hope she pulls through.
Thanks for taking my suggestion! :)

[darkness]

from wat i've herd place a bowl with waterin a place where u think she might be and turn of the lights and wait till about three thirty am. and flip on the light it.but it may not work
:confused: