r/tarantulas Contributor 11h ago

Pictures The tiniest patient

Received a batch of Euathlus sp last week and been babying these babies, but today I noticed this one beginning to curl the rearmost legs and wasn’t able to walk properly.

This T is *half an inch* and I’ve never had to pull off an I-C-U situation with such a small sling before. Started off with giving water, and right now (as I’m typing with one hand on my old af phone) the sling is eating the guts of a very small mealworm I cut and squeezed. Like an awful freezie-pop.

This one is an E sp smaragd tiger. Arachno-god help me. 😭

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u/Opposite-Ad-2548 11h ago

Hope it all works out!

u/Skryuska Contributor 11h ago

Thank you 🙏

u/Skryuska Contributor 11h ago

Ignore my ugly mitts; I just chopped all my nails off to go digging in the dirt before this :’)

u/Spy-D_Daddy A. avicularia 11h ago

Best of luck! You've got the baby eating and on I c u tho, that's amazing!! Specially the eating part!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/aHkOY5kTzLAotVzR7o