I’m new to this and don’t know where to post for advice/help…i think my 17 y/o Rose Hair Chilean Tarantula Is either sick, dying or severely dehydrated. I don’t think she’s molting (even though she hasn’t molted in over a year) and I’m not sure if she’s eaten recently. I gave her crickets last week and a couple were still in her tank.
She’s walking very weird, having trouble supporting her own weight, really wobbly and keeps falling over. Hanging in and around her water dish ALOT and and when she’s on her belly she slowly starts curling her legs in. But she keeps getting up and trying to move every so often. She Stands up, stumbles, sits down, legs slowly start curling and repeat.
This has been going on for over 2 days now.
On the first day I increased the humidity in her tank and gave her fresh water, thinking she might be extremely dehydrated. However nothing seemed to have improved by day 2.
Yesterday on Day 2, I moved her into a smaller 1 gallon critter keeper tank with dry paper towel on the floor and a very shallow water dish.
I examined her 360* when I transferred her to the smaller tank and nothing looked out of the ordinary except her butt looks a little smaller than normal.
I don’t want to move her to an ICU seeing she’s still moving around a little every so often, and I’ve read that those are a last resort. I don’t want to overly stress her out or worse.
Any helpful advice please?
She’s walking very weird, having trouble supporting her own weight, really wobbly and keeps falling over. Hanging in and around her water dish ALOT and and when she’s on her belly she slowly starts curling her legs in. But she keeps getting up and trying to move every so often. She Stands up, stumbles, sits down, legs slowly start curling and repeat.
This has been going on for over 2 days now.
On the first day I increased the humidity in her tank and gave her fresh water, thinking she might be extremely dehydrated. However nothing seemed to have improved by day 2.
Yesterday on Day 2, I moved her into a smaller 1 gallon critter keeper tank with dry paper towel on the floor and a very shallow water dish.
I examined her 360* when I transferred her to the smaller tank and nothing looked out of the ordinary except her butt looks a little smaller than normal.
I don’t want to move her to an ICU seeing she’s still moving around a little every so often, and I’ve read that those are a last resort. I don’t want to overly stress her out or worse.
Any helpful advice please?
