My equador pink toe sling died :(

[jon ross]

Hi martin. I like your enclosures, i have the same sort of tubs but mine are the other way up. Ive just fed and misted the others and ill let you know if they have eaten by tomo. Ive gone back to bits of cricket as thats the only thing ive ever seen them eat.

Im going to make some perspex, front opening small enclosures soon so i can maintain it without disturbing the ts so much. I want to make all my enclosures front opening for ease of maintence.

Thank you for all the input and advise. Its been a great help

 

[Sabeth]

So sorry about your loss, Jon.

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

Hi martin. I like your enclosures, i have the same sort of tubs but mine are the other way up. Ive just fed and misted the others and ill let you know if they have eaten by tomo. Ive gone back to bits of cricket as thats the only thing ive ever seen them eat.

Im going to make some perspex, front opening small enclosures soon so i can maintain it without disturbing the ts so much. I want to make all my enclosures front opening for ease of maintence.

Thank you for all the input and advise. Its been a great help

Its a pleasure,good luck with the Avics hope all turns out well. I want to add this as well,with top opening enclosures or even front ones when you have cage maintenance you will still disturb the T. Say you have a mite infestation which will be substrate related,with a top or front enclosure the T's home is part of a solid enclosure thus will be part of the maintenance. With my upside down ones,I can remove substrate clean it get rid of any unwanted elements and not once touch or disturb the T. This I can honestly vouch for,but again up to you and what you decide. I'm looking at easy care,maintenance etc. I've also drawn up a design which will be made from glass on the same principal, this has just been a theory that was tested now I will start with better looking enclosures. I won't be using perspex but glass, and the design works exactly on the same I've been using.

 

[jon ross]

Cool. It would be good to see whst you come up with. I was just going to use perspex as i can cut it myself. Im still unsure of what glue to use as i dont want to poison them.

Yea i thought the mites might have come from the subsrate as they have come back in the chilles tank but not the smithis (chille didnt seen to like cocohut media and i had to change back to peat)

Heres some pics of encloures

These have a strip of cork bark inside too



This was before the subtrate change



This is the one that died



This is the avic avic and versicolor slings









And i know its off topic but hes my fav pic of my smithi



And last but not least my chille





I do have a curly hair sling too but shesa scardy cat. She just ducks and hides and i cant get a pic cos shes soooooo small. But shes a good eater and has moulted once since sling ownership

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

With my style,its only meant for arboreal. Also looking at the sling that died,that looks like an Avicularia Purpurea ? Not a species Ecuador ,maybe another photo ? Its easy to see a Purpurea, they look a lot like Versi color slings instead of the blue they have black.

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

Just looked it up,haha the Ecuador purple pink Toe is in actual fact an Avicularia Purpurea I hate common names.

 

[jon ross]

Lol. I only use the common names as i cant say nor spell the proper names lol

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

Lol. I only use the common names as i cant say nor spell the proper names lol

Haha,its okay. The scientific name is
- Avicularia Purpurea
So I was spot on with what I saw,these are hardy Avics I have a few. They turn into the most beautiful metallic purple,truly a beautiful Avic. These and the Versi color,Laeta and one or two others are easily distinguishable as slings.

 

[jon ross]

One of the hardyest? Ah man that makes me feel worse lol. Defo want to get another one tho

 

[Martin Oosthuysen]

One of the hardyest? Ah man that makes me feel worse lol. Defo want to get another one tho

I can only say sorry to what happened,hope all turns out positive from here on out.

 

[Christell Erasmus]

sorry to hear about your loss.

 

[jon ross]

Lol martin. Tis not ur fault lol. Its all a learning curve

 

[god61021]

as for the size of prey items my A. Versicolor seems to prefer smaller prey also

 

[creaturekeeper 91]

I think I'm going to have to start offering cricket parts to my A. Diversipes if he doesn't eat a small cricket today. He just finished molting so I just assume that's why it hasn't eaten in a week