Rehousing an Orange Bitey Thing
In the evening I decided to rehouse the Orange Bitey Thing; a female Pterinochilus murinus Red Color Form. I drilled holes in the lid of a 19 litre plastic container, to which I added coconut coir, and some plastic plants.
Next, I took the tarantula, still inside her small enclosure, up to the bathroom. This species can be quite skittish and moves fast, so I wanted a place where an escape wouldn't cause too much of a problem. After quite some time I managed to finally move the spider in a plastic cup using a paint brush. No threat posing by the spider, and no running around; it was actually resisting to move at all.
I cleaned up some of the decoration in the original enclosure: some cork and some plastic plants, and moved it to the new enclosure as well. Then I tried to move the spider in her new home. But it refused to move from her position near the bottom. There was no hole in the bottom of the catch cup (recommended) hence I couldn't push her carefully out that way. So I decided to let the catch cup with spider inside the large enclosure so she could get out in her own time.
Notice in the above photo how the plastic plants provide plenty of anchor points for webbing. In my experience Pterinochilus murinus webs a lot. Because this species uses some height of its enclosure, when available, it's now and then called semi-arboreal.
The last time I rehoused this tarantula was way back in 2020, when it managed to escape the catch cup I used.