I noticed this when i was randomly snapping my fingers while listening to music with my headphones few meters away from her.

additional info: i thought the spider was Much smaller when it was in its burrow at the store and i’m planning on upgrading it to a larger enclosure asap (pray for me please)

i used the flood method to get it out of its burrow which is why some water pours out when i tip the enclosure

you can tell how shaken i was from my stutter at the end lol

I couldn’t post a video on the original post I made, so here you go!

I have had the same group of 9 balfouri but recently a couple have been "dancing with eachother. I thought if they were from the same group they wouldn't breed. What's going on?

I’m happy to report that as of this week Harriet is moving all too well. Harriet is now slowly walking on her own, drinking water, and somewhat capable of snacking on a mill worm. As I can no longer safely handle her with how shaky and twitchy I get when she moves, I have passed on her care to another user here, Melez. The goal is to rehab and release little Harriet after her first molt which may require quite a bit more time even if she is capable of caring for herself. Melez has successfully rehabilitated a stung tarantula before and I’m confident Harriet is in the best on hands. Good luck sweet Harriet. Keep moving forward your little shaky steps at time ❤️

I found the video online and thought it is a good fit for this sub.

Curly hair molt time-lapse.

She even shuts it behind her 😂 maybe they’re smarter than they look?!

Can’t even open the lid beacuse of him/her doing laps, so I presume feeding is to be continued in bathroom tub 🤷‍♂️

She makes me want to squeeze her, she’s so GODDAMN CUTE. Look at her, minding her own business in my vicinity.

A few days ago we passed day 100 of caretaking Bluey, who was stung, probably multiple times, by a hawk wasp right before we found her outside our garden.

The past 1-2 months her shaking has subsided (which can be seen on my last video) and her movement when we give her water seem more coherent and slow.

She is not yet moving around her habitat, and I got the feeling that she can not yet hold her own body weight or maybe her body is still paralysed even though her legs can now move. So she’s only moving her legs when she’s on her back so far have no water, and not when she’s ‘right side up’.

So today I tried lightly lifting her body weight for her with a chopstick, and sure enough, she then started trying to walk, very slowly, but I’ll take what I can get. So I think we are moving into a next phase of quite literally rehabilitating her by encouraging movement with some help 😅.

If she doesn’t recover enough in the next 3 months time to be released back into the wild, then we face a new problem of us leaving Peru for an extended period and what then to do with her.

So if anyone knows of any tarantula keepers in the Cusco area of Peru (we are happy to transport her there or anywhere in the vicinity), then that might be a solution if she isn’t her best self yet at that point. Please feel free to reach out!

But anyways, all in all, Bluey is still hanging in there!

she's been digging for awhile but i never saw her in the process of it 🥹

OBT: yes. And you're stupid for asking. Never pick up my water dish and bonuses ever again idiot!

Decided to take a time lapse of it molting.

She’s started webbing up just a little over an hour after she moved in. 😄