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Thanks for that info! Do you think upgrading to 10 gallons currently would be safe? At 1 inch?
Thanks for that info! Do you think upgrading to 10 gallons currently would be safe? At 1 inch?
G. pulchra, in my experience, do better in smaller enclosures. Both of mine go into stress poses when i rehouse them to larger enclosures. With mine, anything over 3x their leg span wide, they didn't like. So a 10 gallon tank for a 1 inch T i think is way overkill. I wouldn't put a 1" in anything larger than 4" wide, then rehouse when it gets to be about 3" leg span to something around 6" wide. Mine currently is 2.5-3" dls and in a small Kritter Keeper (9"L x 6"W x7" T) with about 3" or so of substrate.Thanks for that info! Do you think upgrading to 10 gallons currently would be safe? At 1 inch?
I feed mine twice a week, Sunday and Wednesday usually, until they're about 2 inches dls, then i just feed on Sunday until they're adults, then every other week except after a molt, i'll feed them weekly to fatten them back up.Super happy, Necco decided to eat for me this morning, (gave a relatively small roach nymph just to make sure it had something on board) I will likely give something larger for the next feeding around Sunday or something, but I am not in a rush. Currently I am still iffy on feeding Espresso since I haven't seen it out at all today and it looks like it is still where it settled last night? When do you think would be a safer time to offer? Couple days? It's definitely the one that stresses more easily so maybe even if it's not molting, just needs some time to settle.
you'll get yelled at from some people if you mention handling T's (not here on this forum thankfully) and some think it's good to handle them. I handle the more docile in my collection. G. rosea, B. albo, B. hamorii, mostly. My son will handle a few others. Last night his D. pentaloris came out to say Hi when he went to fill its water. It's in premolt, so rather than being the spaz it usually is it just crawled onto his palm and sat there. We used to hold both our GBB's, well my son did anyway. Now she's just a moody wench and neither of us trust her enough to try. I haven't tried for quite a while, she hates me My GBB will sometimes crawl out of hte enclosure during feeding or watering. Last time it did so it was chasing a roach and ran up the side and onto my hand before it realized the roach couldn't climb the acrylic wallSo both of these two look a little worse for wear XD still balding in areas, now turning an overall dull gray poor babies. But still eating around 1-2 nymphs (depending on size) a week. Doing amazing, just waiting for the molt to happen. I currently just did a complete spot clean and water change out, used fingers a couple times, and they just kind of tucked under the fake plants and watched general cautiousness but no care otherwise. I had to gently tap Espresso out of the way of the water dish going back. Both seem rather excited? nervous? now that I have cleaned things a bit... "more" I was doing small spot cleans, refilling waterbowls every day almost or when needed etc. But it came to that point where... that was no longer acceptable XD. Do any of you guys handle your T's at all? I have gotten some opinions from other people on a different forum but want to make sure it's a general consensus. I am ok not handling, but would like to... be able to move them onto my hand safely if they randomly get out etc. I don't care so much about getting bit as far as stressing them too much? Otherwise all the invert here are well. <3
I wouldnt keep a T that small in a 10gal.Thanks for that info! Do you think upgrading to 10 gallons currently would be safe? At 1 inch?
you'll get yelled at from some people if you mention handling T's (not here on this forum thankfully) and some think it's good to handle them. I handle the more docile in my collection. G. rosea, B. albo, B. hamorii, mostly. My son will handle a few others. Last night his D. pentaloris came out to say Hi when he went to fill its water. It's in premolt, so rather than being the spaz it usually is it just crawled onto his palm and sat there. We used to hold both our GBB's, well my son did anyway. Now she's just a moody wench and neither of us trust her enough to try. I haven't tried for quite a while, she hates me My GBB will sometimes crawl out of hte enclosure during feeding or watering. Last time it did so it was chasing a roach and ran up the side and onto my hand before it realized the roach couldn't climb the acrylic wall
I won't try and hold the A. genic, she's just too moody and defensive, nor the B. sabulosom, she threat poses and strikes at everything. This past weekend i had the lid open to her enclosure and a house fly landed on the top edge of the hide and then took off, barely missed being splatted when she slapped at it. She sat there in threat pose and kept slapping the hide. after a few minutes it got annoying, i tapped her water dish with the tongs to distract her, then she sat in threat pose at the water dish for a few minutes before crawling back in her hide.
I won't handle the G. pulchra either, it's too unpredictable. One day it will be calm and watch you clean the bolus and fill the water, next day it grabs onto the water dish and won't let you remove it to clean and fill.
I'm ok with you doing what you are doing. Because when you get tagged it will have no affect on my life. But you will learn a lesson. I used to reach in to my versicolors home to to cleaning. Until one day i went to open is home and it jumped half way out the opening and stuck at it. Then when I went to feed it it tackled the tongs. Never get complacent with the Ts and be ready for anything.The babies still haven't molted. I have been moving and cleaning things without tongs currently, They honestly don't care. I keep catch cups nearby of course and tongs just in case they decide to be grumpy that nice, but if they are having an off night they personally go under the fake foliage and just watch
I totally got yelled at. All I asked was what was the best way to go about it if necessary. I didn't even say I was planning on it if I personally WANTED to. I am completely used to not handling animals and inverts of all sorts considering the large amount of true spiders I have that are not species that handle EVER. I just looked at the responses... and was like... o.o... it was terrifying and I am one person who doesn't try to argue ever in forums where I am learning or anything. But it's like... come on... no need to jump down my throat for honestly asking something. I left the thread I think age ago and they continued picking for weeks afterward. .___.' It has made me generally uncomfortable posting in most T communities now.