Spiderman
Veteran Member
My spiders that is.
My first spider at this ghetto complex was named Denise. She was a pink toe jumping tarantula who would hang her shed exoskeleton from a plastic tree and hide beneath a leaf, and it looked like she hung herself ( and nearly gave me a heart attack!)
I got arrested as I was walking to the pet shop to rescue her, cuz I was walking down a free way. The officer looked up the spider on his computer, patted me down, put me in the back of his car, and drove me there. She was a baby (or possibly an early rebellious teenager. [ Yet she only bit me if I was drinking. Even my spiders tell me, "NO MEANS NO!"].) I wanted to grow old with her but got incarcerated, and she was confiscated by animal control cuz I had no Doctor's orders to have her as a therapy animal (a requirement in this facility.)
I investigated to find out if they euthanized her, and they swear they found her someone that loved her.
Anyway, I recently turned over a log and Napoleon had just molted such a short time prior, that his body was completely white as a the walls here. He was standing next to what looked like his corpse, and I got my phone to make a youtube for RF, but it was out of juice
. By the time it charged a bit, he jogged on, and some of his color returned.
I felt bad cuz you don't want to mess with them while they are in that condition, and if you touch them while they are molting they can die. Years ago (when I was an idiot) I lost a king baboon that way.
Even if you don't touch them while they are not molting, they can die as well. It is a very traumatic moment for them where they change colors and grow (sometimes nearly double in size) in less than an hour (sometimes fifteen minutes).
Napoleon survived and proceeded to make a hill out of wood chips and web. I caught him with a wood chip in his fangs as his hill was under construction. I didn't want to cramp his style LOL! It's weird, in his little cage at the pet shop, he filled it with web. Now that I give him a big cage, he just makes hills out of the wood chips and soil, which I see no evidence of him doing in his previous container. It's an interesting phenomenon because I asked the employee if she could find me the spidey that makes the most web, and he was it. Yet he doesn't make webs at all; but his last cage, which I have, is filled with web. Should I put him back in that one (in your opinion)?
He isn't showing signs of being depressed or anything, cuz he moves fast, scales walls, and builds houses and hills. As Spiderman, I've owned probably 40 + arachnids in my life and never seen this type of behavior lol. Any thoughts about this phenomenon?
I hope he isn't on drugs!
My first spider at this ghetto complex was named Denise. She was a pink toe jumping tarantula who would hang her shed exoskeleton from a plastic tree and hide beneath a leaf, and it looked like she hung herself ( and nearly gave me a heart attack!)
I got arrested as I was walking to the pet shop to rescue her, cuz I was walking down a free way. The officer looked up the spider on his computer, patted me down, put me in the back of his car, and drove me there. She was a baby (or possibly an early rebellious teenager. [ Yet she only bit me if I was drinking. Even my spiders tell me, "NO MEANS NO!"].) I wanted to grow old with her but got incarcerated, and she was confiscated by animal control cuz I had no Doctor's orders to have her as a therapy animal (a requirement in this facility.)
I investigated to find out if they euthanized her, and they swear they found her someone that loved her.
Anyway, I recently turned over a log and Napoleon had just molted such a short time prior, that his body was completely white as a the walls here. He was standing next to what looked like his corpse, and I got my phone to make a youtube for RF, but it was out of juice
. By the time it charged a bit, he jogged on, and some of his color returned.I felt bad cuz you don't want to mess with them while they are in that condition, and if you touch them while they are molting they can die. Years ago (when I was an idiot) I lost a king baboon that way.
Even if you don't touch them while they are not molting, they can die as well. It is a very traumatic moment for them where they change colors and grow (sometimes nearly double in size) in less than an hour (sometimes fifteen minutes).
Napoleon survived and proceeded to make a hill out of wood chips and web. I caught him with a wood chip in his fangs as his hill was under construction. I didn't want to cramp his style LOL! It's weird, in his little cage at the pet shop, he filled it with web. Now that I give him a big cage, he just makes hills out of the wood chips and soil, which I see no evidence of him doing in his previous container. It's an interesting phenomenon because I asked the employee if she could find me the spidey that makes the most web, and he was it. Yet he doesn't make webs at all; but his last cage, which I have, is filled with web. Should I put him back in that one (in your opinion)?
He isn't showing signs of being depressed or anything, cuz he moves fast, scales walls, and builds houses and hills. As Spiderman, I've owned probably 40 + arachnids in my life and never seen this type of behavior lol. Any thoughts about this phenomenon?
I hope he isn't on drugs!
