Help please

[dazray9]

I have a 1 year old salmon pink, she has recently started to chew up and bite the polystyrene backing in the tank?? Anyone have an I site as to why she's doing this and I'm guessing I need to remove it?? Will it harm her if ingested??

 

[Enn49]

Could it be that a cricket has got down the back. Crickets will chew holes in the polystyrene backing to get behind and a T will follow.
The T won't eat the backing but I'd remove it.

 

[dazray9]

Could it be that a cricket has got down the back. Crickets will chew holes in the polystyrene backing to get behind and a T will follow.
The T won't eat the backing but I'd remove it.

Thankyou but def no food left in there she kills everything and anything the moment it moves a foot and she's on massive locusts at present so nothing small has escaped that's for sure will attempt removal of it tomorrow but she's been rather feisty lately I do wonder that now she has shed again and is currently around 7-8 inches whether she needs a bigger enclosure (currently in 30x30x30)

 

[Enn49]

Thankyou but def no food left in there she kills everything and anything the moment it moves a foot and she's on massive locusts at present so nothing small has escaped that's for sure will attempt removal of it tomorrow but she's been rather feisty lately I do wonder that now she has shed again and is currently around 7-8 inches whether she needs a bigger enclosure (currently in 30x30x30)

Mine at that size is in a 60x25x25and has been for a few years.

 

[Kazegal]

I highly doubt that she would be able to eat the polystyrene as the prey is usually being digested (liquefied) before the sucking stomach sucks it up, but I am sure others will chime in on this.

Depending on the enclosure you can decorate it in a way that it has levels which gives the tarantula extra room. I would just make sure that there is enough substrate so that when she decides to climb up high and falls down, she doesn't get injured. My giant female is in a 30x30x30cm enclosure, but I have used a giant piece of cork bark as a hide on the bottom, so she has more space than just the 30x30 (a bit like a house with multiple floors). Mine also spends most of her time in the hide.