Smudgereeroo
Arachnopeon
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- Mar 21, 2014
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Hello All,
Long time lurker, 1st time poster here...
My issue is that I moved approximately 1 month ago, and since then my L. parahybana (Itsy Bitsy) and my G. rosea
(Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) have been spending a good deal of time hanging out on their glass. They have been
sharing a divided 15 gallon terrarium for the past 3 years quite happily. Priscilla has been a typical pet rock, and now
she's all over her tank and frequently on the glass just above her substrate. Bitsy has always been very active, but
rarely just hung out on her glass. Now she's rarely on the ground. Both are eating normally, Bitsy as voracious and
aggressive an eater as ever, and Priscilla, who was never much of an eater (she went 14 months without eating once) has even eaten a few crickets since the move.
I know there must be *something* about the new place they don't like, it's just too much of a coincidence that they're both acting off and we just moved. I don't think it's the move itself though, as they've both moved with me before with no
issues and it's been a little over a month and they're not settling down. My new place is warmer than the last, and I
have no control over the heat here, but I'm in Canada, so we're talking wearing a t-shirt indoors and being comfortable warmer, not anything extreme. Their terrarium is on the same self of the same shelving unit as before, also located
beside a window but on the same wall as the window, so no direct sunlight, exactly the same as before the move. I
haven't changed their substrate, humidity, feeding schedule or any other husbandry (I did fill in a deep burrow that
Priscilla had made as her hide was at risk of falling in the hole and I didn't want her accidentally crushed).
I'm going nuts trying to figure out what's bugging them, and I'm distressed that they're distressed. I want my 8-legged kids happy again. I also am planning to get a B. smithi sling this weekend, and slings are so iffy to keep alive at the
best of times, so I want to know I'm bringing it into a good environment, you know? Two factors that I've thought of as
possibilities are that they are much closer to both the TV and the wireless router. Could vibration and/or radio waves
be the culprit?
Any help/thoughts/advice would be most welcome.
Thanks!
Smudge
Long time lurker, 1st time poster here...
My issue is that I moved approximately 1 month ago, and since then my L. parahybana (Itsy Bitsy) and my G. rosea
(Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) have been spending a good deal of time hanging out on their glass. They have been
sharing a divided 15 gallon terrarium for the past 3 years quite happily. Priscilla has been a typical pet rock, and now
she's all over her tank and frequently on the glass just above her substrate. Bitsy has always been very active, but
rarely just hung out on her glass. Now she's rarely on the ground. Both are eating normally, Bitsy as voracious and
aggressive an eater as ever, and Priscilla, who was never much of an eater (she went 14 months without eating once) has even eaten a few crickets since the move.
I know there must be *something* about the new place they don't like, it's just too much of a coincidence that they're both acting off and we just moved. I don't think it's the move itself though, as they've both moved with me before with no
issues and it's been a little over a month and they're not settling down. My new place is warmer than the last, and I
have no control over the heat here, but I'm in Canada, so we're talking wearing a t-shirt indoors and being comfortable warmer, not anything extreme. Their terrarium is on the same self of the same shelving unit as before, also located
beside a window but on the same wall as the window, so no direct sunlight, exactly the same as before the move. I
haven't changed their substrate, humidity, feeding schedule or any other husbandry (I did fill in a deep burrow that
Priscilla had made as her hide was at risk of falling in the hole and I didn't want her accidentally crushed).
I'm going nuts trying to figure out what's bugging them, and I'm distressed that they're distressed. I want my 8-legged kids happy again. I also am planning to get a B. smithi sling this weekend, and slings are so iffy to keep alive at the
best of times, so I want to know I'm bringing it into a good environment, you know? Two factors that I've thought of as
possibilities are that they are much closer to both the TV and the wireless router. Could vibration and/or radio waves
be the culprit?
Any help/thoughts/advice would be most welcome.
Thanks!
Smudge