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  • #1

    cheeky

    i have a C. schoedti sling which has burrowed deep and i never see it, so naturally i'm always quite concerned that the only sign of life is that the crickets seem to disappear. well this morning i had a look, and the cheeky sod had only moulted and kicked its skin out of one of its entrances for me to clean up!
    so i feel like a butler or something... only there to provide food, which i never am thanked for, and apparently to take out the washing to, with not even a "good morning, Jeeves!"
    cheeky!
    (but i am quite glad that it moulted and all is apparently well!)
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  • #2
    Originally posted by James Box View Post
    i have a C. schoedti sling which has burrowed deep and i never see it, so naturally i'm always quite concerned that the only sign of life is that the crickets seem to disappear. well this morning i had a look, and the cheeky sod had only moulted and kicked its skin out of one of its entrances for me to clean up!
    so i feel like a butler or something... only there to provide food, which i never am thanked for, and apparently to take out the washing to, with not even a "good morning, Jeeves!"
    cheeky!
    (but i am quite glad that it moulted and all is apparently well!)
    James
    If you provide your C,schioedtei with a cork tube placed vertically it should take up home in this. They only burrow to escape the light and if not giving places to hide and feel safe, such burrowing behaviour is never seen in the wild.

    As for slinging the skin out, all mine do this, and this is how we managed to find a few in the wild, by looking at the base of trees for the skins.

    I agree they can be very hard to see and as with most Asian species you feel your keeping a pet hole rather than a earthtiger!.

    My Bornean species do come out a lot though and sit outside on the cork.

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    • #3
      thanks Mark,
      i'll try to sort something out along those lines for the little blighter!
      i've heard of t's kicking skins out of their hides before, and it does make sense, it just struck me as cheeky first thing this morning lol
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      • #4
        My E.Cyanognathus is just the same. Only time I got a real good look was when it arrived, and escaped into ther bath, they are so fast! Once I got it into it's new home it went straight into the hide I'd provided and I've barely seen it since. It too pushed it's old skin outside for me to clean up! lol. I did get the briefest of glimpses last night, I put a cricket in and it came shooting out of it's hide to get it, but quickly retreated after it was caught. Shame, because at the stage it's at it has some nice colours, and I know it will lose this colouration as it matures. I wouldn't buy another one, it does feel at times like I'm just feeding a plastic container with some substrate and hide in there.

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        • #5
          ah the joys of pet holes!
          i suppose what's necessary is a bit of patience and dim lights...
          i just hope i can keep my little schoedti alive til i get it a proper cork tube!
          hoping someone's selling them on Sunday, i've never seen them at my local petshop.
          i recently became aware of E. cyanognathus...gorgeous creature! i probably will buy one, even if i don't see it as often as i'd like...
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          • #6
            They are that. But come maturity they lose the brighter colours and become more dull. But keep the blue chelicerae. Not huge spiders either. But as I say, very fast.

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            • #7
              right, i'll keep that in mind!
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              • #8
                I know what you mean about the shed skins. My P. rufilatas have built like a web nest where they live and at moulting time I don't need to disturb them to collect the skins, they leave them out for me! Still full marks for tidiness!!
                sigpicHate is for people who find thinking a little too complicated!

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                • #9
                  i still reckon it's cheeky! haha
                  well i actually caught a glimpse of the little one last night, but it was gone like a shot the moment it realised i was there! still, signs of life are all i ask
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                  • #10
                    Hidey spideys!

                    Originally posted by James Box View Post
                    ah the joys of pet holes!
                    i suppose what's necessary is a bit of patience and dim lights...
                    LOL...I know that feeling. My young M.Robustum are just the same...they have hides aplenty...but no, they dig a dirty great big hole underneath and throw shed skins out at me too! Ah well...I nearly get a view if I peer through the bottom of the tub...they made some quite complex looking galleries in the substrate, which is fine until the whole lot collapses!

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                    • #11
                      crazy little beggars!
                      i'm going to attempt keeping the burrowing T's in plastic cereal boxes when they grow up. i'll wrap up the enclosures in something that blocks light, and remove it when i want to see them. hoping that their burrows touch the sides so i can get a good view!
                      the only problem is some of my species will get quite large (C. crawshayi for example) and so they may be too big for that kind of set-up.
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                      • #12
                        Wooo! King Baboons do get big! I love their amazingly chunky back legs, very impressive specimens.
                        I managed to find some wonderful *tupperware* type tubs of varying sizes and depths for my young Robustum...got 5 for less than a fiver, and that should see them until to near enough adulthood. I drape a dark pillowcase over the setup for privacy...sometimes they sit in the *galleries* right next to the sides, but then they spot me and hide towards the middle where I can't get a decent view! lol

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                        • #13
                          yeh, shame they're so shy! not like we're going to eat them
                          i need to get another M. robustum...i had a sling, but for some reason it died. probably cause i don't know much about their species yet...
                          i do like my king baboons, though they're still quite small. just hoping i can get them past their childhood!
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                          • #14
                            One of mine isn't too shy when it's feeding time...it usually comes to beat the tweezers up before making off with its prey! lol

                            Awww...sorry to hear that you lost one, and sometimes there is no decent reason other than *it wasn't meant to be*...the Robustum babes do like the humidity high (85% mine are at), but with good ventilation...so I have deep tubs, deep substrate to hold moisture and then a small mesh panel stuck into a cut out hole in the lid. Seems to be working for my little monsters, they're growing very well so far.

                            I'm sure you'll get them through childhood...you can't have bad luck everytime.

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                            • #15
                              i had a nice run of bad luck with a few others as well...but seems to be stabilising now.
                              I mustn't have got the humidity right for the Robustum. i had it in a deep tub, with lots of holes, but there was no way the humidity was 85%. that's probably what did it
                              well, i'll ask more questions next time i get a new species...don't want to unnecessarily lose any more!!
                              Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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