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Adorable habits!!

thesakedoc

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Does any one here have a t with a particularly adorable behavior? I have three to share below:

My GBB always drinks from the tiny holes in his plastic container lid lol
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My MM Rosie loves to eat on his tippy tippy toes, more than my others:
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My Carlsbad green always plays jungle gym!
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Anyone else got some cute stories or pictures? Please share!!
 

katiekatelyn

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My t.stirmi likes to hook his two front legs from the ledge of his tank and dangle from it, even though he's too big and there's nothing climb, he just ends up flailing his legs for a while.
 

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Fuzzball79

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My Rosea gets into threat position every time my dogs (GSD and Husky X) bark near the tank. It must be the vibrations as especially the Husky X has a bark that goes right through you, lol.
Apart from that, she doesn't like her feet getting wet, so every time she accidentally walks over her water bowl she does this funny walk with a different leg up in the air at each step.
When she eats she does the same tip toe pose as the OPs Rosea, as if to say "This is mine!!!". She also very enthusiastically webs her feeding mats, spinning around in a circle and wriggling her backside.
The other thing I love about her is that she is quite bold and tends to assume I am some sort of automatic cricket dispenser. Every time I open the hatch to do something she comes up checking.

Not a habit, but the other night she had us laughing: I put a different kind of cricket in with her, which was a lot faster than the usual type. Every time it came in pouncing distance it would escape from the spider. At one point is was hiding inside the water bowl, half submerged and because, as I said, spidey doesn't like water she would just sit next to the bowl staring at it. It also hung off the ceiling for a few minutes, while a very confused Tarantula checked under every log and in every hide. At 4 am in the morning my husband walked into the living room and she had finally caught it (feeding was at 9.30). All the while it was really fascinating to actually see a Tarantula hunt and not just strike and eat like she usually gets to do (black crickets are sloooow).
 

thesakedoc

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Be careful that ur t doesn't fall too hard, especially after a meal when his abdomen if full.
Also careful not to put ur spiders around too many loud noises and vibrations bc it could really stress ur t out.

But both of these habits are just darling!
 

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