My G rosea spider havent eatn for 3 months.

[sinder]

i got a G rosea spider for bout 6 months ago a new born one. and it have changed skin onces and that was for 3 months ago and stopped eating a few weeks later. the temprature is bout 23-27 and the fog and that is bout 60-80%, i have fresh Dubia Cookroaches i feed em with, i give same dubia cookroaches to my Grandis Mantis and he eats them without getting sick. so my Dubias is it no problem with. why wont it Eat? i have crickets too it wont eat that either.
its one like this i have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_rose_tarantula


Im very new with Tarantullas, but i love reptiles just to bad most of reptiles in my country is illegal. but it will get legal in 2014. So im pretty new with spiders and take all tip i can get on why he wont eat.

I have a pretty big Terrarie tank for my spider, its about 300 Liters Terrarie (Aquarium) and the spiders doesnt seem to be afraid of exploring the terrarie, i can often see him walking from the end of the cage to the other end. the substrate i use on the ground is dirt we use to make flowers wich i was told it was best for a g Rosea from the one i purchased the spider from. i dont know if its a he or she, but she/he have changed skin once and never again. stopped eating 2-3 weeks after it changed skin. before so did it eat a Dubia roachies bout 1-2 every week. ive also tried with dried crickets, but the rosea wont touch it. i have Fogger Cave and another Fogger.

 

[sinder]

My G rosea walks into my hand when i take it down, so i dont think hes mad or anything like that since he walks freely into my hand sometimes.

 

[Nada]

Rosies typically go off food for long periods of time. 3 months is nothing to worry about.
However, if your humidity is 60-80% that is much to high. They are a desert species and like it bone dry.

 

[sinder]

Rosies typically go off food for long periods of time. 3 months is nothing to worry about.
However, if your humidity is 60-80% that is much to high. They are a desert species and like it bone dry.

Wow your serious? i was told they needed 60-70% to be able to change skin. does they change skin if i change it to desert? should i change the dirt to sand or something? was told they liked to dig and stuff like that. isnt that hard in the desert with all sand?

 

[Nada]

Yep, totally serious. They need nothing more than a water bowl, with fresh water. Sand is a terrible substrate for them, Eco-Earth or Peat moss is just fine, you just have to let it dry out. Deserts, aren't all sand (I live in one) It's just an Arid and dry area. Rose hairs come from Chile, and typically live in rock crevices.

 

[sinder]

Yep, totally serious. They need nothing more than a water bowl, with fresh water. Sand is a terrible substrate for them, Eco-Earth or Peat moss is just fine, you just have to let it dry out. Deserts, aren't all sand (I live in one) It's just an Arid and dry area. Rose hairs come from Chile, and typically live in rock crevices.

So that might be the reason why he wont eat? because the humanity is to high? maybe thats the reason why he climbs on the silicon in the terrarie sometimes to get close to the lamp wich gives some heat?

 

[Nada]

You want to get rid of the light. Tarantulas do not need or like light.
the Climbing is probably due to the humidity, but the not eating is just something rosies do. I've had one refuse food for over a year before.

 

[sinder]

You want to get rid of the light. Tarantulas do not need or like light.
the Climbing is probably due to the humidity, but the not eating is just something rosies do. I've had one refuse food for over a year before.

Then how is it gonna get light if i dont have any light on? then it will be total darkness all day, the room i have my reptiles and spider in there is no window.

 

[Nada]

They like darkness, that's where they're most comfortable. Light is of no benefit for them. That's why in the wild they spend the days dug in deep.

 

[sinder]

They like darkness, that's where they're most comfortable. Light is of no benefit for them. That's why in the wild they spend the days dug in deep.

Ok, can i have a normal lamp in my room for my other reptils? aslong there is not one in the tank

 

[Nada]

yeah, ambient light is fine, just no direct light. Direct light will just stress your Tarantula out.

 

[sinder]

yeah, ambient light is fine, just no direct light. Direct light will just stress your Tarantula out.

what will i do with the dirt who a little wet? it wont become desert with the dirt if there is no heat. the lamp makes heat and the warm mat i have, but it doesnt cover the whole 300Liters tank.

 

[Nada]

you don't need a light, or a heat mat. Just leave it alone, and it will dry out on its own in time.
Don't spray/mist at all, just fill the water bowl.

 

[sinder]

Yesterday my Tarantulla eated her first cookroach in 7 months now. does that mean shes getting better now when ive had my g rosea in the tank like u said, no heat,no direct light. but she was very aggresive when i tried to feed her. she standed on her backfeets very high up in the air, i was afraid she was trying to attack my hand, because i put a cookroach on a tweezer and then put it infront of the g rosea. but i never seen her go that far up in the air to attack a dubia. she used like 10min before she grabbed the dubia. she havent molted(change skin) for about 10 months now. doesnt G rosea change skin 3-5 times a year?

 

[DalilahBlue]

Adults may only shed yearly or less. G. rosea can be unpredictable in behavior, going from docile to aggressive quickly. This sounds normal for this specie.

 

[sinder]

Adults may only shed yearly or less. G. rosea can be unpredictable in behavior, going from docile to aggressive quickly. This sounds normal for this specie.

its not an adult, its a teenage, g rosea subadult i think its named. and the aggresive thing have calmed, think she just was hungry, it was a baby for like a year ago when i got her, so shes probly 1,5 year now. dunno if theyre adults or what they are in 1,5 yr.
But ive been thinking alot if changing the Tank to a smaller one could be better? the G rosa have a 300Galoon tank wich she lives in. though about maybe making something like this as i use for my scorpion. would this tank be better to use for the g-rosea then a 300 galoon tank?

her tank is this big

 

[sinder]

i have a 300 Galoon tank for my G rosea now, been using it for her for about a year. but been thinking that she maybe will have a better life in a smaller tank like i use for my scorpions. what do you think? the scorpion tank looks like this and have cocohumus as substrate. Ive never seen my G rosea digging or anything like it and i just read another breeding for g rosea, and then they said the substrate should not be bone dry, but dry as my scorpion have it. now the g rosea substrate is very wet, as i was told by Kenny to leave it and it would become dry, but it still havent become dry, its still as wet as it was for 5 months ago.
if the 300 galoon tank is fine then il order 60Galoons of coco humus on internett wich should be enough to fill up the 300 galoon tank with cocohumus substrate.

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the 300 galoon tank :

 

[DalilahBlue]

That tank may actually be too big. How large is the spider?

 

[sinder]

The spider is about 1,5 year old. but il take a picture of it.

 

[sinder]

She also just grabbed a Dubia right now after i was done taking pictures. the movie View My Video

The light inside the tank is always off, it was just on now for the pictures. only light i use is the one i have in the roof.