Ok Just to begin Ill start of with the tarantula:
Rose Hair, Chilean Rose Hair, Chilean Rose [However you may call its nickname]
Binomial Nomenclature: Grammostola, Rosea
Age:8 yrs,3-4 months old now.
Gender: Male
Incident: Deformities from being stuck in the molt, had to put him in homemade icu and manually pull each and every part off.
Descriptive/Description: Typically its been almost a month now but a month ago he turned upside down and began to molt.
Before he molts during the months he was preparing the hairs all over his legs [excluding urticating] fell off as well as majority of the pink fur on his carapace with little minor patches of pink.
Maybe of old age or simply just a part of molting. Aside from that he got stuck. We waited and provided him humidity. He must of predicted the molt too late because on day two he pulled
himself off of his bottom carapace with all his legs locked in the old molted legs as well as pushing himself too much and damaging his right fang in the old molts chelicerae. His fang turned red.
I cannot tell whether it was blood or not but I assumed it was blood even though their blood is pretty much non-colored and is somewhat "white" or transparent.We took action a little late
due to family disagreeing that he was perfectly fine.... Aside from that we took his entire molt off successfully. Bad news was the fact his legs were twisted within the molt so he had
3 deformities. 2 minor and 2 major. The major one is on his left side first leg next to the pedipalp. That leg was twisted upside down at the femur and later on was considerably dead. Halfway of that
leg day or two later chipped off at a point where it became brittle or it looked strained of liquid like a rag wrapped and squeezed of water. so he has been walking around with half a ripped off leg.
I keep trying to look at it from inside to get a better look of how exactly that leg never bled. The major two was his right fang turned from bright red to a dark red. Seemingly from
my observation of it as well its not in the chelicerae of the armor correctly. Because hes able to push it around and pull it all the way beyond the chelicerae's armor. I cannot tell whether
its not working correctly too because when he uses his left fang which was undamaged and got its armor on that one coordinates correctly like when he bites into something. The other
one moves everywhere, uncoordinated movement. The right one seems like to me that due to the trauma and damage to it, it caused the armor to never form on the fang. Multiple
instances I have confirmed it was not solid and more rubbery, able to bend. One of the times I see this is when he cleans his legs as he would press the fang against his leg and it bends
from being pushed up against it.
If you may ask "What exactly is the problem then?" Well:
1. He has a front leg he cant barely move and it pushes against him when he tries to move forward. It is either pushed forward, pushing substrate and causing the substrate to keep him to continue
moving or he dozes it. Another positions it is in is pushed all the way to the side again pulling substrate with him or the leg is curl downwards under him. We plan on amputating his legs but
I disagree. From getting a split second to look on the inside of the leg that was ripped I saw a tip a little behind the ripped point
oh::idea: He grew a new leg inside that leg which is either a dead leg or a
part of the molt that was unnoticed.
2. Because his right fang is damaged and uncoordinative in difference to the left it causes him with the difficulty of biting prey. I watched him trying to pull the prey under his chelicerae
and bites more than 6 times before he ends up biting it with the left fang and eating. A week after that he then couldn't bite those crickets so I had to pull the crickets with the tongs on
their behinds and put the prey up to his chelicerae. He luckily didn't get scared of the tongs and bit the cricket after several attempts. Another couple of weeks later now he cant bite
them at all. He constantly grabs the crickets and holds em under him biting so much. I can tell from seeing him opening and closing his chelicerae constantly and pushing them a little
down. Hes acting desperate now. Pouncing anything far from his feet and running towards it. When I hold pray items to him he feels the tongs and gets defensive hitting them with all
his front feet. He is very angry. So I cant hold the prey item up to him. When I let it go he has the same problem again, biting the cricket like crazy, getting tired and not moving for
minutes and the cricket escapes. I have even ripped the hind legs off of the crickets keeping them from jumping [I feel so terrible for doing so but his disability and his current conditions
seem severe where he cant be independent so I have to do whats necessary.] or even ripping all the 3 legs off so they only have 1 leg to move (only did this to one cricket). He did not
even eat that cricket nor did I see what happened. He probably bit it a lot and gave up. As for the cricket I woke up to find it dead from traumatizing its body by doing all I did to it.
So I ask... How can I feed him. He acts overly defensive and hits the straw or tongs with his front legs and pedipalps but does not act defensive with small prey and attempts to bite them.
How can I feed him. He is starting to try and crawl up the walls so I know hes hungry for sure. I can't think of a idea of what I can do to feed him if he cant bite the prey or hold it to his
mouth.
As for His leg im worried about my action I have in mind but if I can get him to calm down ill try and see if I can crack that twisted leg (hoping its not alive and not causing him to bleed)
and hopefully see his new tiny front leg that is growing (or which of such I am taking a large guess but it seems mere impossible if that leg cracked off and never bled. So it has to be a
new growing leg in the dead leg).
Ill try and see if I can post pictures (if needed).
Rose Hair, Chilean Rose Hair, Chilean Rose [However you may call its nickname]
Binomial Nomenclature: Grammostola, Rosea
Age:8 yrs,3-4 months old now.
Gender: Male
Incident: Deformities from being stuck in the molt, had to put him in homemade icu and manually pull each and every part off.
Descriptive/Description: Typically its been almost a month now but a month ago he turned upside down and began to molt.
Before he molts during the months he was preparing the hairs all over his legs [excluding urticating] fell off as well as majority of the pink fur on his carapace with little minor patches of pink.
Maybe of old age or simply just a part of molting. Aside from that he got stuck. We waited and provided him humidity. He must of predicted the molt too late because on day two he pulled
himself off of his bottom carapace with all his legs locked in the old molted legs as well as pushing himself too much and damaging his right fang in the old molts chelicerae. His fang turned red.
I cannot tell whether it was blood or not but I assumed it was blood even though their blood is pretty much non-colored and is somewhat "white" or transparent.We took action a little late
due to family disagreeing that he was perfectly fine.... Aside from that we took his entire molt off successfully. Bad news was the fact his legs were twisted within the molt so he had
3 deformities. 2 minor and 2 major. The major one is on his left side first leg next to the pedipalp. That leg was twisted upside down at the femur and later on was considerably dead. Halfway of that
leg day or two later chipped off at a point where it became brittle or it looked strained of liquid like a rag wrapped and squeezed of water. so he has been walking around with half a ripped off leg.
I keep trying to look at it from inside to get a better look of how exactly that leg never bled. The major two was his right fang turned from bright red to a dark red. Seemingly from
my observation of it as well its not in the chelicerae of the armor correctly. Because hes able to push it around and pull it all the way beyond the chelicerae's armor. I cannot tell whether
its not working correctly too because when he uses his left fang which was undamaged and got its armor on that one coordinates correctly like when he bites into something. The other
one moves everywhere, uncoordinated movement. The right one seems like to me that due to the trauma and damage to it, it caused the armor to never form on the fang. Multiple
instances I have confirmed it was not solid and more rubbery, able to bend. One of the times I see this is when he cleans his legs as he would press the fang against his leg and it bends
from being pushed up against it.
If you may ask "What exactly is the problem then?" Well:
1. He has a front leg he cant barely move and it pushes against him when he tries to move forward. It is either pushed forward, pushing substrate and causing the substrate to keep him to continue
moving or he dozes it. Another positions it is in is pushed all the way to the side again pulling substrate with him or the leg is curl downwards under him. We plan on amputating his legs but
I disagree. From getting a split second to look on the inside of the leg that was ripped I saw a tip a little behind the ripped point
oh::idea: He grew a new leg inside that leg which is either a dead leg or a part of the molt that was unnoticed.
2. Because his right fang is damaged and uncoordinative in difference to the left it causes him with the difficulty of biting prey. I watched him trying to pull the prey under his chelicerae
and bites more than 6 times before he ends up biting it with the left fang and eating. A week after that he then couldn't bite those crickets so I had to pull the crickets with the tongs on
their behinds and put the prey up to his chelicerae. He luckily didn't get scared of the tongs and bit the cricket after several attempts. Another couple of weeks later now he cant bite
them at all. He constantly grabs the crickets and holds em under him biting so much. I can tell from seeing him opening and closing his chelicerae constantly and pushing them a little
down. Hes acting desperate now. Pouncing anything far from his feet and running towards it. When I hold pray items to him he feels the tongs and gets defensive hitting them with all
his front feet. He is very angry. So I cant hold the prey item up to him. When I let it go he has the same problem again, biting the cricket like crazy, getting tired and not moving for
minutes and the cricket escapes. I have even ripped the hind legs off of the crickets keeping them from jumping [I feel so terrible for doing so but his disability and his current conditions
seem severe where he cant be independent so I have to do whats necessary.] or even ripping all the 3 legs off so they only have 1 leg to move (only did this to one cricket). He did not
even eat that cricket nor did I see what happened. He probably bit it a lot and gave up. As for the cricket I woke up to find it dead from traumatizing its body by doing all I did to it.
So I ask... How can I feed him. He acts overly defensive and hits the straw or tongs with his front legs and pedipalps but does not act defensive with small prey and attempts to bite them.
How can I feed him. He is starting to try and crawl up the walls so I know hes hungry for sure. I can't think of a idea of what I can do to feed him if he cant bite the prey or hold it to his
mouth.
As for His leg im worried about my action I have in mind but if I can get him to calm down ill try and see if I can crack that twisted leg (hoping its not alive and not causing him to bleed)
and hopefully see his new tiny front leg that is growing (or which of such I am taking a large guess but it seems mere impossible if that leg cracked off and never bled. So it has to be a
new growing leg in the dead leg).
Ill try and see if I can post pictures (if needed).
