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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fuzzball79" data-source="post: 30907" data-attributes="member: 3190">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).</blockquote>

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