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Okay -
So I found a couple of mites in my ~3" P. ornatas delicup 7/18/04, and I immediately moved it to a new container w/new substrate etc. I noticed that the spider was behaving normally, but a little jumpy - and rather than sit on the side of the new cup, it sat down around the bottom. It was responding normally to touch. I also did not notice any mites on the spider at all.
I checked in last night, 7/19/04 right before I went to bed - and it looked like it had made something similar to a molting hammock in the new delicup. It was pressed up against the wall of the cup, with visible mites crawling around its mouth area. White specks - that were moving around. My first reaction was to remove it from the container, and place it in a dry ICU with a waterdish. I did not want to attempt manual mite removal with vaseline/qtip because I wasn't entirely sure of it's condition (because of the strange behavior described below), and I'm not quite comfortable enough with my pokies to try and carpace grip them.
The spider did not respond to stimulus as per usual, and was not able to crawl up the walls of the cup while setting straight up. It was somewhat slumped, and let its legs go limp, twitching every once in a while. It would also make sporatic spastic attempts to climb the side of the cup, only to "tire out" and go back to twitching for a while. It reminded me of some of the dyskenetic (sp?) videos that I have seen people post. I also moved it around with a paintbrush, to which it was acting REAL strange - it kept crawling onto the brush, then "stiffening" up, then moving again.
I have videos of all this, and a video that shows me manipulating the spider with a paintbrush - which gives a pretty good idea of its state. I need to know a good (free) file hoster, or if someone could volunteer me some space to put the videos up on - I'd greatly appreciate it. I can't get to it this afternoon, but can compress and send the videos this evening, as well as add pictures to this thread. I've probably got about 10mb worth of AVI file now - that I can shrink. Please PM or email me if you think you could help me out - thx in advance.
AT this point, I'm not sure what to do. It's sitting above my refridgerator in the dark now, in a dry ICU. I didn't see any mites this morning, but it was about 50% unresponsive. I'm pretty sure it is on it's way out - but I at least wanted to share what I observed with everyone.
)Okay -
So I found a couple of mites in my ~3" P. ornatas delicup 7/18/04, and I immediately moved it to a new container w/new substrate etc. I noticed that the spider was behaving normally, but a little jumpy - and rather than sit on the side of the new cup, it sat down around the bottom. It was responding normally to touch. I also did not notice any mites on the spider at all.
I checked in last night, 7/19/04 right before I went to bed - and it looked like it had made something similar to a molting hammock in the new delicup. It was pressed up against the wall of the cup, with visible mites crawling around its mouth area. White specks - that were moving around. My first reaction was to remove it from the container, and place it in a dry ICU with a waterdish. I did not want to attempt manual mite removal with vaseline/qtip because I wasn't entirely sure of it's condition (because of the strange behavior described below), and I'm not quite comfortable enough with my pokies to try and carpace grip them.
The spider did not respond to stimulus as per usual, and was not able to crawl up the walls of the cup while setting straight up. It was somewhat slumped, and let its legs go limp, twitching every once in a while. It would also make sporatic spastic attempts to climb the side of the cup, only to "tire out" and go back to twitching for a while. It reminded me of some of the dyskenetic (sp?) videos that I have seen people post. I also moved it around with a paintbrush, to which it was acting REAL strange - it kept crawling onto the brush, then "stiffening" up, then moving again.
I have videos of all this, and a video that shows me manipulating the spider with a paintbrush - which gives a pretty good idea of its state. I need to know a good (free) file hoster, or if someone could volunteer me some space to put the videos up on - I'd greatly appreciate it. I can't get to it this afternoon, but can compress and send the videos this evening, as well as add pictures to this thread. I've probably got about 10mb worth of AVI file now - that I can shrink. Please PM or email me if you think you could help me out - thx in advance.
AT this point, I'm not sure what to do. It's sitting above my refridgerator in the dark now, in a dry ICU. I didn't see any mites this morning, but it was about 50% unresponsive. I'm pretty sure it is on it's way out - but I at least wanted to share what I observed with everyone.
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