Keith wrote: ... Yes this is the chillian rose and i have read the care sheet, i have stopped misting the glass and stopped wetting the substrate...
For a rose the substrate needs to be absolutely dry. No moisture even underneath. This is especially true because you're supplying very little ventilation to allow the cage to dry out. They can get all the water they need from the water dish. If this isn't true in your cage you need to dismantle the cage and dry out the substrate. You can find a discussion of this in
Substrate
.
Keith wrote: ... Ive read that if a T is on the glascdsr2.s and not on the floor its not happy? Or is this wrong?
Read the discussion towards the end of
Substrate
entitled "Why does my tarantula hang from the side of the cage..."
Keith wrote: ... Also i have done as much reasearch as i could on the spider.
Beware! As clearly stated in
Stan's Rant
, there are no limits or controls placed on what anyone can post on the Internet. Any nincompoop can say anything they wish, in good taste or bad, truthful or otherwise. That's why I urged you to at least scan all that pages on the
Spiders, Calgary
website, then read as many of those four books as you can find.
There are lots of different opinions about proper tarantula care flying around, some very good, most mediocre, a lot really bad. What's contained in those references may not be perfect or above criticism, but none of them should cause you to kill your pet spider. Read and heed! Anything different should be checked with thus group before you try it.
Keith wrote: ... Being known as a "pet rock" its actually very true, the spider almost never moves untill u take her out the enclosure, ...
A tarantula that seldom moves is either very dead or very happy. When most tarantulas start pacing around a lot you should start looking for reasons why.
Keith wrote: ... But why i wonder is when i take her out and handle her ,once i put her back in the enclosure she tries to get out again...
You've disturbed her. She's upset. She still isn't accustomed to you or the cage. Keep the cage in a dimly lit part of the room. Leave it alone. Go away. Don't bother it except to briefly check on it once a day. After a week or two of solitude you can slowly, ever-so-gently begin to touch and handle it. But, read the section on handling in the
Tarantula Keeper's Guide first so you don't kill the spider. (Sorry, people, for the self-serving plug.)
Renier has a really good idea. Give it something to hide in so it doesn't feel so exposed and vulnerable.
"We all need to learn to view the world like a large fuzzy spider."
