What is my Rosie doing?!!

[Claire Beckett]

Well my rosie has me baffled. She has completely webbed herself into her hide and bulldozed all her substrate to effectively barricade herself in - just a little hole that I can see in. She has moved the substrate inside her hide so she is just sat on the glass on the bottom of her tank. She is eating ok. Took a small locust on saturday. She has been a bit moody lately - wont think twice about displaying threat posture if you so much as look at her.

What is she doing?!!!

[Colin D Wilson]

She's just being a typical unpredictable rosea that's probably entering premoult from the behaviour you've described.
I've had rosea's that have eaten right up to two or three days before moulting and some that have fasted for months beforehand.
keep the water bowl topped up, you could try to pop a food item in occasionally although keep an eye on whether she eats it and remove it if she leaves it too long (i tend to use locusts when a spiders showing moulting behaviour as they don't have a habit of chewing on a newly moulted spider like crickets have done in the past)

[James Box]

i had a rosea web itself into its hide for months, too. no hole i could perceive to get out or food to get in! it moulted in there, but remained inside.
however, i eventually rehoused it in a slightly smaller tank, with soil for substrate rather than vermiculit, and it almost immediately started being more sociable.
in my case, it may have been partially a case of premoult behaviour, and partially it not liking a larger tank...or perhaps it was the vermiculite it didn't like. they do sometimes have bad moods though!
i'll add my other rosea, probably from the same brood, has never had a problem with its larger tank and vermiculite...so i reckon the other was just picky!

[Claire Beckett]

Yes, premoult was my first thought but doubted myself because she was eating ok - she pounced on that locust quicker than lightning as soon as it hit the ground!

[James Box]

well there's always the chance she's just shy i'm sure she'll come out of her shell eventually.

[johnmccorry]

Hi Claire, mine done the exact same thing last year, bulldozed and webed/walled herself in, fortunatley about a week later i could just see her legs pointing up in the air through a small gap, left her like that untill she came out on her own.
all i done was kept fresh water in there and bumped the humidity up a bit.

Took her time coming out again and didn't eat anything for maybe 2 months after that, still as Colin said Rosea's are unpredictable, but it all ended well and she moulted again a few weeks back, but just done it the open so i was able to watch the process unfold, which was super.