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Rob883226
03-28-2006, 04:28 PM
For over 2 months this emilia has been upside down. She comes down to drink and eat, then back to the top! Where it lets web dribble from her web dribbler. Once she took a roach that I put on the mesh. She killed it, and ate it upside down:) Then dutifully came down with the refuse, and dropped it in her favorite waste corner. And yes, it has a hide, and water, and food, and humidity, and heat, and I don't abuse it in anyway whatsoever.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d139/Johndoe001/DSCN1103.jpg
SilentMercury
03-28-2006, 04:31 PM
That's pretty amusing. Mine goes upside for a total of 2 minutes a week, so yeah that is different.:cool:
8 legged freak
03-28-2006, 04:32 PM
substrate might be too damp.. could be climbing to get away from it. .
jwasted
03-28-2006, 04:36 PM
Yeah that is pretty odd. Whats the humidity? What kind of substrate are you using?
Rob883226
03-28-2006, 04:46 PM
substrate might be too damp.. could be climbing to get away from it. .

Nope, nice and dry except where it occasionally overflows the bowl, no mites. No change in its environment in the last year.

One day....it decided upside down was where its at!
Rob883226
03-28-2006, 04:47 PM
Yeah that is pretty odd. Whats the humidity? What kind of substrate are you using?

65ish, coco/peat mix.
andy83
03-28-2006, 05:09 PM
Maybe it's getting too much light? My Brachypelma smithi would climb a lot and after I moved her to a darker location she stopped.
Rob883226
03-28-2006, 05:42 PM
Maybe it's getting too much light? My Brachypelma smithi would climb a lot and after I moved her to a darker location she stopped.

It used to use the hide, nice and dark. The room is on a timer unless i walk in on a dark time. Its a possibility, but I don't think thats it.

I think its trying to annoy me, it might be personal.
becca81
03-28-2006, 08:54 PM
I had the same problem with a B. smithi and finally what worked was putting in a plexiglass lid underneath the screen lid. This did increase humidity a bit, but it immediately stopped climbing.

About 6 months later I removed the plexi lid without any further climbing.
Arlius
03-28-2006, 09:03 PM
Maybe it wants something to climb on, maybe give it a nice large piece of grape vine?
Rob883226
03-28-2006, 09:35 PM
Maybe it wants something to climb on, maybe give it a nice large piece of grape vine?

I like to keep the cages as sparse as possible. I'll be moving them all into tubs soon anyway. The 5 gallons are to high imo, and the IRIS tubs have more floor space.

It not only climbs to that one spot, it HANGS there day in and day out:)

Dribbling webs!