Recent content by Louise Rowbotham

Thanks for the advise :)

Thank you. He (or she) is much better now and has started to walk again :) I dried out his bedding and brough the humidity down which I think helped. Thank you all for responding and helping me sort my Ernest out :) x

I have nearly dried out all the bedding now so there is more or less no misting. The guy at the pet shop wet all the bedding originally and said it was fine to put the spider in.

Oh? How do I keep his tank warm? It says keep it at around 24 degrees C. I live in UK and its doesn't get 24 degree C in summer here. Why are they dangerous? Sorry for all the questions.

Yes it's a heat pad. He's still not moving really so I have dried a lot of the bedding to reduce humidity and left his tank open slightly. I just want him to make an effort to work He seems to really struggle.

Do you think I should move the heat may over to the other side to dry some of the peaty/soil stuff out? Thanks for responding to me this is really helping.

How do you bring the humidity down?

First image is ICU for spider and second image is how he/she is now. :)

He's only has one cricket in 2 weeks as he molted on the first evening we got him home. The expert I spoke to said if he thought the spider was due to molt (which he did) he shouldn't have let us take him and upset the process.

His humidity is around 70/75% which I have read is around ok. He's is doing ok. We put him into spider intensive care which we read about on the net for around 24 hours. He's still pretty slow and not moving great but looks a lot better so we'll just have to see. I think it will take a week or...

Thank you for responding. My spider is 8 months old. I have spoken to a spider expert at my local museum that keeps spiders who told me that he does not think my spider is moulting if no signs are showing of this in a 24 hours period. He did say that this dosen't sound good so we are expecting...

Thank you for responding. Thats the problem he has only been fed once since I purchased him less than 2 weeks ago. I have spoken to a spider expert at my local museum that keeps spiders who told me that he does not think my spider is moulting if no signs are showing of this in a 24 hours...

Hi, Do you two both know much about red knees? I bought a red knee on Sunday 11th October and since then it's has moulted twice, I have spoken to a pet shop owner and he says not. He/she is only 8 month old and has been in the process for well over 12 hours and I am just hoping for some...

First time spider owner

Hi, I bought a Mexican red knee tarantula on Sunday 11th October. On the first night of having the spider it moulted. It was abit of a shock but all fine. This morning I got up and my spider was on his back moulting (I think/hope) again. Is this normal with in a 2 week period? The spider is...