Ok my Rose Hair (Azrael) has been doing this kind of ...action for awhile now and I keep asking around pet stores and trying to look on the internet for FAQs about Tarantula's (and I can't seem to find any) and I get no where. When I come from work, or get up in the morning she'll be out in the open stretched out looking healthy, but then I come home or go in the room and not right away, but eventually she'll either stay where she is or move into the corner closest to me and put her front half on the glass and keep the bottom on the substrate (so she'll be at an angle) and then she'll put her either 2 or 4 front legs covering her eyes/top part of her body(sort of the opposite direction of her curling her legs inwards). Has anyone ever had this sort of ...I don't know if it's a problem or not...Like I've never seen her curl her legs inwards(indicating sickness/dieing), but I wanna make sure she's not being overly stressed out or anything by me being near? I dunno cause my Brazilian Black is fine! lol. They're in the same room, not beside each other though. My rose hair has also not molted yet(been almsot like 2 months), she's eating regularly though, last week she ate 11 crickets. One of the guys said maybe I'm putting too many crickets in...but I don't think so cause I haven't put any crickets in that she hasn't ate. My brazilian black on the other hand has molted once and is about to molt again any time soon, prolly in the next week. So after my paragraph :P does anyone have any insight for me? Maybe had a T that did the same thing? Or something like it? Cause it seems like she's the only T that's doing this lol.

I wouldn't be worried. If anything just make sure her enclosure is the right set-up; substrate, waterdish, hide. Although none of my t's have covered their "face" I have heard of some t's doing this before and nothing happened to them. It doesn't sound like your t is in any trouble here and I see no reason to worry, even if you do find its actions strange (covering eyes)

I think you are causing yourself unnecessary stress here, I really wouldn't worry. Ts don't stay in one position the whole time, and I'm sure if she was sick you would know about it by now, Ts go down hill very quickly.

One thing though, IMO you are overfeeding her.. Ts can survive months without food, and on average most people will feed most Ts 3-5 crix per week.

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My Rose hair sits in that position on occasion also...I wouldnt worry about it...prolly just taking a nap...lol....best wishes...Lyn

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See! T's do take nap breaks lol! I wasn't really stressing myself out or anything, just it was food for though and decided to see if anyone else had any of the same behaviours.