Niss
Arachnopeon
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Well, spring is here and I often do any major maintenance around this time. Several spiders have already been rehoused, I'm loving the new enclosures, am now so fond of frog moss I'm putting it in everything (where appropriate). Good times.
My Pseudhapalopus sp. Columbia/blue had really been a bit foul in her enclosure, craping in her hide, leaving boluses in there too...so I was determined to redo it. Did a lovely job on the new enclosure then came time to move her. She was not impressed and was even kicking hairs as I gently guided her with a paintbrush (I'll consider myself lucky, this is the only T I have that actually ever kicks hair so I won't complain about that). Once in the new enclosure something looks funny... and yeah, she's lost her back right leg.
I can't say for certain how this happened, although I'll assume it was during the rehouse---perhaps I was careless lifting the hide---but needless to say I feel terrible about it even though she seems to have settled down to her new 7-legged existence for a moult or two. And yeah, I know it will grow back but I always feel horrible when anything happens to the spiders that I can blame on myself
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That's all. Just me annoyed at myself but when I tried to share with the wife I was reminded that I was the one who decided to keep spiders. She's not wrong.
~N
My Pseudhapalopus sp. Columbia/blue had really been a bit foul in her enclosure, craping in her hide, leaving boluses in there too...so I was determined to redo it. Did a lovely job on the new enclosure then came time to move her. She was not impressed and was even kicking hairs as I gently guided her with a paintbrush (I'll consider myself lucky, this is the only T I have that actually ever kicks hair so I won't complain about that). Once in the new enclosure something looks funny... and yeah, she's lost her back right leg.
I can't say for certain how this happened, although I'll assume it was during the rehouse---perhaps I was careless lifting the hide---but needless to say I feel terrible about it even though she seems to have settled down to her new 7-legged existence for a moult or two. And yeah, I know it will grow back but I always feel horrible when anything happens to the spiders that I can blame on myself
.That's all. Just me annoyed at myself but when I tried to share with the wife I was reminded that I was the one who decided to keep spiders. She's not wrong.
~N
for mold. Unfortunately I got haired , from outside of the cage .
