Mexican Red Knee Acting Strange... Is It Sick?

Okay, this B. smithi (Dante) molted about 2.5 weeks ago, since then he has refused all but one cricket (I think, of the 3 I've offered him, two died and the other disappeared, so I think he ate it). I've noticed he's been walking strangely in the last week or so. I hope it's just the substrate (although he didn't have any problem until last week), and not something more serious. Let me know what you think.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Brachypelma
• smithi
• tarantula
• spider
• spiderling
• mexican
• red
• knee
• strange
• Dante
• behavior
• jerky
• movements
• DKS
• Substrate
• moult
• molt
• sick

[marianjane0219]

my tarantula beast, is a mexican golden red rump, she has been acting like the spider above but faster, looks like shes dancing, i know somethings wrong. so what is the spider doing, is she sick?

[amethyst8teen]

@marianjane0219 I can't speak for your tarantula, but in this case he was just stressed. I'm happy to report that he has made a full recovery and is doing very well.

[ultum4tegunz]

=(((( my P miranda just died because of this.... humity and wayer dosnt help....

one of my favorite and$40 dollar tarantula is dead now...

[amethyst8teen]

@ultum4tegunz Actually, Dante (the spider above) has fully recovered and is doing great.

[amethyst8teen]

I appreciate that, I've posted a link of it to several forums as well, and I hope someone can tell me if I'm just being paranoid or not.

[jodroboxes]

This looks more like dehydration, when they molt they lose a lot of water. Always make shure they drink after molting. Good to hear she's fine. ;)

[kjminniti]

I'll post my remarks on your Arachnophiles thread.

[throughthetrees11]

Do you have a water dish (if you dont--add one--a water bottle cap works great)? What about a hide? It does seem to be moving funny. I had 2 Ts with DKS and it looked more like a T seizure than what yours is doing... I am still pretty new to Ts tho.

[Eternalsummersong]

You know....I'll see if I can show this to my cousin. He has all kinds of spiders as pets in his house (my nightmare house) he might know what's wrong with it.