Male B. smithi...

I dunno, kinda startin to get concerned about him. It's been 12 days since he molted...not eating and wont touch water. His abdomen is slightly shriveled...but, hes moving around fine, no sign of legs curling under. Looks like hes a little more active in the last couple days but the slightly shriveled abdomen is my main concern. Would feel alot better if he would just eat or drink. What do you guys think? I feel like an ICU may be a little too drastic right now, like I said he is walking around just fine. His last molt was not his ultimate molt as I had thought it would be cause he did not hook out, so I know it's not because he's matured and is in "find a female" mode.

Opinions??

Do you have a pic so we can see what you mean by somewhat shriveled rump?

My suspicions were right, just checked on him a few minutes ago and he was in a partial death curl. Got him in an ICU now, hopefully he pulls through since hes not too far gone, like i said he is still moving around somewhat, so I'm hoping he isn't TOO dehydrated to be unsaveable.

And no I still dont have a digital cam tp put a pic up with, we got one the other night and it turned out to be junk so we took it back. I'll check on him in a couple hours or so and see what happens from there

Hope he pulls through for you. Make sure his ICU is some place warm, dark, and quiet, only check on him every couple hours.

Ok this is just crazy....in nine hours this T has went from laying flat on his abdomen and carapace with 5 out of 8 legs curled under him....to now hanging on the side of his enclosure!
I checked on him a few minutes ago and he was up on all tippytoes inside the ICU trying to get off the wet papertowel. So, I put him back in his enclosure and as soon as he hit the substrate he hair-bombed me and went straight up the side of the enclosure. What the heck??? This is the first time I have ever had to use an ICU...can they make a recovery THAT fast?? It's been about 9 hours since he was first put in ICU. I was expecting at least a 2-3 day wait before any noticable changes were apparent. When I picked him up earlier to put him in the ICU he made no attempt to run away or bomb me, and this guy is the worst hair kicker i have ever seen. When I picked him up he just twitched his legs a little but mostly they just kind of drooped.
I really dont know what to make of this...lol. Maybe I'm goin bonkers or somethin.

Sounds like he was just really dehydrated. I once got in a .5" C. Fasciatum sling that was lost in the mail, all the other slings were fine, but this one was in death curl, but still alive, I put it in ICU and 2 hours later I checked on it, and it was gone. I looked under the wet paper towel, and there it was alive and well.