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Hi everyone! My name is Sierra, and I'm a music teacher from California. I've been teaching piano, voice, guitar, and cello for about six years, and I love my career. In my spare time, I'm usually playing a Zelda game or League of Legends; that, or Chopin. And my kitty cat Angel Baby is always by my side (or laying on the piano keys!)
I just bought myself a beautiful female Grammostola rosea for my 25th birthday! I am so excited to get to know more about her. I've been reading up about T's and watching T care videos made by experienced owners for the past week. I'm really happy with the vast amount of knowledge there is available about this hobby on YouTube. I also had no idea how huge this hobby is, there are so many people raising and breeding so many different species of tarantulas!
On to my little beauty, my new rose hair tarantula, Nayru. Named for the Goddess of Wisdom from the Legend of Zelda, who poured her wisdom onto the earth, gave the spirit of law to the world, and created the physics of the universe that keep it in order.
The pet store told me she was three months old (hah.) She is about the size of my palm, so I'm highly doubting she is three months old. Maybe two years old or so? (Any help identifying how old she is would be greatly appreciated!)
Nayru is extremely docile, probably because the pet store handled her EVERY DAY. From what I've read, this isn't really a good thing. My goal for her is to be happy and healthy, and if I can interact with her once in a while in a way that doesn't stress her out, awesome. If not, that's cool too, because I love watching her and feeding her crickets.
Right now I have my girl in a ten gallon terrarium with three inches of EcoEarth coconut fiber substrate, which I keep moist but not wet. She has a shallow water dish in the back right corner of her tank with a small piece of natural sponge. She also has a little hollowed out half of wood to hide in (back left), a branch to crawl on (front right), and a very small false plant decoration (front left), all bought from the pet store (and of course, clean and sterilized.) She has already explored all of these items, and spent time in her little wood home, which I dug a bit into the ground and then leveled out the "floor."
I use a "daytime" blue light during the day (8-10 hrs, labeled "normal photo period") and a soft glow red bulb (labeled 24 hr bulb) at night. Both from the pet store, both give off heat. I have a small thermometer in the back left corner of her tank, and I keep it between 75-82(F) degrees.
She eats about two medium sized feeder crickets a day. Is this normal for her (estimated) age? I certainly don't want to accidentally underfeed her, and I don't think she would eat them if she's not hungry(?)
I am so incredibly happy I have her, in fact I teared up when I saw her and immediately paid for her, even though I knew I couldn't pick her up until the next day. They stuck a "sold" sticker on the tank and I got a knot in my throat, just knowing she was mine. <3 So excited to start this incredible journey with my new baby Nayru!!
I just bought myself a beautiful female Grammostola rosea for my 25th birthday! I am so excited to get to know more about her. I've been reading up about T's and watching T care videos made by experienced owners for the past week. I'm really happy with the vast amount of knowledge there is available about this hobby on YouTube. I also had no idea how huge this hobby is, there are so many people raising and breeding so many different species of tarantulas!
On to my little beauty, my new rose hair tarantula, Nayru. Named for the Goddess of Wisdom from the Legend of Zelda, who poured her wisdom onto the earth, gave the spirit of law to the world, and created the physics of the universe that keep it in order.
The pet store told me she was three months old (hah.) She is about the size of my palm, so I'm highly doubting she is three months old. Maybe two years old or so? (Any help identifying how old she is would be greatly appreciated!)
Nayru is extremely docile, probably because the pet store handled her EVERY DAY. From what I've read, this isn't really a good thing. My goal for her is to be happy and healthy, and if I can interact with her once in a while in a way that doesn't stress her out, awesome. If not, that's cool too, because I love watching her and feeding her crickets.
Right now I have my girl in a ten gallon terrarium with three inches of EcoEarth coconut fiber substrate, which I keep moist but not wet. She has a shallow water dish in the back right corner of her tank with a small piece of natural sponge. She also has a little hollowed out half of wood to hide in (back left), a branch to crawl on (front right), and a very small false plant decoration (front left), all bought from the pet store (and of course, clean and sterilized.) She has already explored all of these items, and spent time in her little wood home, which I dug a bit into the ground and then leveled out the "floor."
I use a "daytime" blue light during the day (8-10 hrs, labeled "normal photo period") and a soft glow red bulb (labeled 24 hr bulb) at night. Both from the pet store, both give off heat. I have a small thermometer in the back left corner of her tank, and I keep it between 75-82(F) degrees.
She eats about two medium sized feeder crickets a day. Is this normal for her (estimated) age? I certainly don't want to accidentally underfeed her, and I don't think she would eat them if she's not hungry(?)
I am so incredibly happy I have her, in fact I teared up when I saw her and immediately paid for her, even though I knew I couldn't pick her up until the next day. They stuck a "sold" sticker on the tank and I got a knot in my throat, just knowing she was mine. <3 So excited to start this incredible journey with my new baby Nayru!!
Most people enter this hobby with no knowledge of how to keep tarantulas properly, and different species require different care sometimes. My suggestion is research. Googling things like "how to care for a G rosea" or "G rosea husbandry" online will generally get you started into some serious research and take you down a road we've all traveled. And of course, anytime you have questions there's plenty of friendly and knowledgeable people on this forum who are willing to help. I've been keeping tarantulas for 6 years now, I have 30 different species, and I still learn something new every day. There are people here who I'm sure are more knowledgeable then me, and they'll chime in as well. I hope you take this in the spirit it was offered
