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Crickets I'm assuming, since I got her from a pet store ( that wasn't caring for her properly:rolleyes:)
But haha thank you! Hopefully I'm just being a paranoid parent, I love her a lot.
I've had this avic. metallica for almost a year now and she's always been a very picky eater, but slowly she's become less and less interested in feeding. She seems to enjoy faster prey, so I give her red runners, but even then, if she misses, she loses interest.
Is it common for avics to be...
No, but I feed her exclusively red runners since their quick movements are the only thing that interests her food-wise.
Will she be able to eat decently until then? She's 5' inches currently, so it might be.. quite some time until she molts again. :(
Just a few minutes ago I was watching my girl have a drink then roam around the sides of her tank. I love to watch her as she goes about her doings, so I walked over to view and and take a few pictures as she wandered, and to my horror noticed she's missing one of her fangs.
I know for a fact...
A handful of months ago I found a very beautiful Avic. metallica in a pet store, who's enclosure was set up for a terrestrial T. Not only that, but the enclosure was bone dry, and the poor met's butt was very much on the thin side. Thankfully my dad let me get the poor thing, and she's molted...
I'm incredibly new to tarantula keeping, and have had an avicularia metallica for a little over 3 months now, and she just molted for me about 4 or so days ago.
The thing is, she was very thin (and dehydrated) when I got her, so thin that I thought she was a male. To top it off, she's a picky...