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My 3.5" A. avicularia has been up and down since I got it a couple of months ago. It finally started to eat a few weeks ago, but I noticed this morning that it had some bald areas on the abdomen (which was definitely not there a week ago).
The pictures don't show the bald area well, but what I see looks quite pronounced. Since this species doesn't flick the hairs, and I don't know what she would be pushing them into, why would she be losing hairs like this? Can stress just make the hairs fall out?
Over the past couple of months, I've made changes to try to help her settle in more. I've upped the temperature and humidity and made the enclosure a smaller to help her feel more secure. She has two water sources, one on the ground and one near the top that are kept full. I offer pre-killed crickets only (which she ate 2 of a couple of weeks ago).
Any suggestions?
She's been hunched up on the top of her corkbark for a couple of days. I've only seen a couple of threads of silk ever produced, certainly not a web.
It's hard to see the bald area, but you can just make it out near the center of the abdomen.
The pictures don't show the bald area well, but what I see looks quite pronounced. Since this species doesn't flick the hairs, and I don't know what she would be pushing them into, why would she be losing hairs like this? Can stress just make the hairs fall out?
Over the past couple of months, I've made changes to try to help her settle in more. I've upped the temperature and humidity and made the enclosure a smaller to help her feel more secure. She has two water sources, one on the ground and one near the top that are kept full. I offer pre-killed crickets only (which she ate 2 of a couple of weeks ago).
Any suggestions?
She's been hunched up on the top of her corkbark for a couple of days. I've only seen a couple of threads of silk ever produced, certainly not a web.
It's hard to see the bald area, but you can just make it out near the center of the abdomen.