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How often do you feed a brachypelma smithi
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<blockquote data-quote="Arachnoclown" data-source="post: 127578" data-attributes="member: 27444"><p>Welcome to the forum, Brachypelma hamorii is my favorite species. A Tarantula the size of yours should eat only once every week or two. What can happen with this species is if you feed them too much too fast they will go into long periods of fast. They already fast on their own from time to time but power feeding them makes it much worse. Example, I feed my 4" every 2 weeks for months casually. She still fasted in premolt for nearly 160 days. Your T looks plenty fat so prepare for it not to eat for a while. Make sure its got a water dish at all times, all mine drink often. Hamoriis dont like humidity so make sure the substrate stays dry. I only overflow the water dish a tiny bit every week. Throw the heat pad away, they are for reptiles and roaches. Hamoriis hunt in the deserts at night when temperatures can dip down in the 40s. Room temperture is fine with them, just make sure they have a place to burrow. The scrunched up look is probably stress. It could be many things like, no hide(cave ,burrow), prey item left in enclosure, too much humidity, no cover to hide(plants) new surroundings and no water to drink.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arachnoclown, post: 127578, member: 27444"] Welcome to the forum, Brachypelma hamorii is my favorite species. A Tarantula the size of yours should eat only once every week or two. What can happen with this species is if you feed them too much too fast they will go into long periods of fast. They already fast on their own from time to time but power feeding them makes it much worse. Example, I feed my 4" every 2 weeks for months casually. She still fasted in premolt for nearly 160 days. Your T looks plenty fat so prepare for it not to eat for a while. Make sure its got a water dish at all times, all mine drink often. Hamoriis dont like humidity so make sure the substrate stays dry. I only overflow the water dish a tiny bit every week. Throw the heat pad away, they are for reptiles and roaches. Hamoriis hunt in the deserts at night when temperatures can dip down in the 40s. Room temperture is fine with them, just make sure they have a place to burrow. The scrunched up look is probably stress. It could be many things like, no hide(cave ,burrow), prey item left in enclosure, too much humidity, no cover to hide(plants) new surroundings and no water to drink. [/QUOTE]
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