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I first saw my 1/2" C. darlingi sling in a death curl position in the morning. Panicked, I blew on it and it sprung to life, acting as if it had never been in death curl. Thinking it was from dehydration, I sprayed some water in its cage and put a roach in the cage as well to see if it would eat it. I also dug another starter burrow in case stress was the problem, although it never used any burrows I or it dug. Neither helped, as throughout the morning it kept going into this same death curl position, with the same result: blowing on it or disturbing it while in this position brings it back to life. I was gone from my house for the majority of the day, so I did not have a chance to constantly disturb it. When I got home, it was in a semi death curl position, standing on its tippy toes. I blew on it, and it sprang to life as before. Fed up, it opened its cage and sprayed a large amount of water into it. Oddly, this seemed to make things worse, as if I disturbed it while it was in this position now it did not move. Using a spare deli cup as an ICU, I prepared a wet tissue and placed the sling inside the ICU. My hands were shaking (for reasons which you could probably imagine) so it was difficult to put the sling inside. It is currently sitting inside the ICU, in a death curl.
Cage conditions: Deli cup with bone dry substrate, filled nearly to the top as C. darlingi is a burrowing species. It has had three burrows, two of which I have dug myself. It used none of them. Here is a picture:
It have had it for around two and a half months. It has never molted. I bought it from Jamie's Tarantulas and it was pretty hardy up until today, obviously. It has been refusing food recently.
I have been doing gardening activities recently so couldn't it have been poisoned by some sort of chemical I had handled. It is probable since I made an attempt to feed it recently that didn't go so well so I had to remove the prey.
PLEASE HELP IT!
Update: As you can see in the picture, it has gotten to its feet and is no longer in a death curl. THEN THERE STILL IS HOPE!
Cage conditions: Deli cup with bone dry substrate, filled nearly to the top as C. darlingi is a burrowing species. It has had three burrows, two of which I have dug myself. It used none of them. Here is a picture:
It have had it for around two and a half months. It has never molted. I bought it from Jamie's Tarantulas and it was pretty hardy up until today, obviously. It has been refusing food recently.
I have been doing gardening activities recently so couldn't it have been poisoned by some sort of chemical I had handled. It is probable since I made an attempt to feed it recently that didn't go so well so I had to remove the prey.
PLEASE HELP IT!
Update: As you can see in the picture, it has gotten to its feet and is no longer in a death curl. THEN THERE STILL IS HOPE!