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Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum. I've a little experience, raising a pterinochilus sp. from a little spiderling through adulthood and death, and now a L. parah. from a rather larger spiderling.
The latter has now moulted at least three times in my care, and is starting to push the 5-6" mark. However, "Pinky" has picked up a rather strange new behavior, as the time since her last moult ever increases.
For some reason, Pinky webs a large strip of vermiculite, and then gathers it up and carries it about. This is fair enough, and she has cleared quite a large hole during her landscaping escapades.
My question however is this;
Why does my tarantula keep carefully spreading balls of webbed vermiculite in her water bowl?
This is now the second time Pinky has filled it. For some reason, the tarantula seems to think this should be how her world should be. She has also turned into a bit of a sociopath. She used to turn and run. Since a moult she would attack and then eventually run away. Now she attacks and is very subborn about giving up and will attack repeatedly, becoming very difficult to 'herd' about the tank.
I'm new to the forum. I've a little experience, raising a pterinochilus sp. from a little spiderling through adulthood and death, and now a L. parah. from a rather larger spiderling.
The latter has now moulted at least three times in my care, and is starting to push the 5-6" mark. However, "Pinky" has picked up a rather strange new behavior, as the time since her last moult ever increases.
For some reason, Pinky webs a large strip of vermiculite, and then gathers it up and carries it about. This is fair enough, and she has cleared quite a large hole during her landscaping escapades.
My question however is this;
Why does my tarantula keep carefully spreading balls of webbed vermiculite in her water bowl?
This is now the second time Pinky has filled it. For some reason, the tarantula seems to think this should be how her world should be. She has also turned into a bit of a sociopath. She used to turn and run. Since a moult she would attack and then eventually run away. Now she attacks and is very subborn about giving up and will attack repeatedly, becoming very difficult to 'herd' about the tank.
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