SpiderInTheBath
Arachnosquire
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- Jan 7, 2015
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I've had my A. versicolor sling since the beginning of April, and it has never made a web. I checked out a few past threads like this and the advice seemed to say it can take a while, but I'm concerned that it could moult soon and hit a problem -- and I'm not sure how those threads turned out, as no one ever went back to update on how their sling fared.
Mine eats well and regularly (I offer food every 3 days or so and remove it if it's not taken within 15 minutes), and is drinking/energetic (it made a break for it the other day, even). I have it in a cross-ventilated 250ml tupperware with coco-fibre substrate and a silk plant leaf for climbing on.
The temperature is 70-72F.
I moisten the substrate on alternating 3 day schedules, but I am wondering if I am not being generous enough with the watering; the enclosure is always bone dry when I open it to do it again. Having said that, I'm also wary of over wetting it. It likes to drink water drops from the sides of the enclosure, so it gets "misted" in the sense that I put a couple of drops up for it to get if it wants them.
Is the fact that I've seen it drinking this way often a sign that the enclosure is too dry? Is there anything else I may have missed? Any insight at all would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Mine eats well and regularly (I offer food every 3 days or so and remove it if it's not taken within 15 minutes), and is drinking/energetic (it made a break for it the other day, even). I have it in a cross-ventilated 250ml tupperware with coco-fibre substrate and a silk plant leaf for climbing on.
The temperature is 70-72F.
I moisten the substrate on alternating 3 day schedules, but I am wondering if I am not being generous enough with the watering; the enclosure is always bone dry when I open it to do it again. Having said that, I'm also wary of over wetting it. It likes to drink water drops from the sides of the enclosure, so it gets "misted" in the sense that I put a couple of drops up for it to get if it wants them.
Is the fact that I've seen it drinking this way often a sign that the enclosure is too dry? Is there anything else I may have missed? Any insight at all would be appreciated.
Thanks!