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My G. pulchra is behaving in a really weird way, and I'm afraid there's something wrong.
I've had her for over three weeks now and she hasn't shown any interest in eating, and although she's been active she seemed weak to me because she had difficulty even climbing on to her piece of cork bark, which is lying flat (but I don't know what she should be like - she's my first tarantula and she's still immature, maybe half adult size or less). She is almost always out in the open too not hiding.
Well, all of yesterday she sat in the exact same place, just moving her legs up and down slightly. She seemed to have pushed a little ridge of substrate up around her, maybe a result of the legs moving up and down. By the evening she had stopped moving and her legs were curled right underneath her and she didn't respond to me breathing on her or touching a leg - I was totally sure she was dead, but I left her there anyway because I couldn't face doing anything.
But this morning she was moving her legs slightly again - but hasn't moved from the same place. But I don't hold out any hopes for what I'll find when I go home this evening.
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be wrong? She's had constant high humidity and constant access to clean water in a shallow dish, and the last few days she's had constant temperatures of 25 degrees, but before that the temperature varied a bit with the cold weather we've been having because the heat mats couldn't quite keep up (that's fixed now). I have tried to keep disturbance to a minimum too, and I can't see any way she might have got injured.
Please help. What can I do?
I've had her for over three weeks now and she hasn't shown any interest in eating, and although she's been active she seemed weak to me because she had difficulty even climbing on to her piece of cork bark, which is lying flat (but I don't know what she should be like - she's my first tarantula and she's still immature, maybe half adult size or less). She is almost always out in the open too not hiding.
Well, all of yesterday she sat in the exact same place, just moving her legs up and down slightly. She seemed to have pushed a little ridge of substrate up around her, maybe a result of the legs moving up and down. By the evening she had stopped moving and her legs were curled right underneath her and she didn't respond to me breathing on her or touching a leg - I was totally sure she was dead, but I left her there anyway because I couldn't face doing anything.
But this morning she was moving her legs slightly again - but hasn't moved from the same place. But I don't hold out any hopes for what I'll find when I go home this evening.
Does anyone have any ideas about what might be wrong? She's had constant high humidity and constant access to clean water in a shallow dish, and the last few days she's had constant temperatures of 25 degrees, but before that the temperature varied a bit with the cold weather we've been having because the heat mats couldn't quite keep up (that's fixed now). I have tried to keep disturbance to a minimum too, and I can't see any way she might have got injured.
Please help. What can I do?
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