Thanks the dubia roaches are about as big as her abdomen but thought it should be fine so I might as she was eating fine before and I forgot to mention that its a unsexed Tliltocatl vegans and it may be in there nature to do this it tends to run straight to its hide as soon as i open the lid and but it never came out before and it did run at me out of the enclosure thinking presumably that I was food so its clearly hungry.Do you leave food in overnight? Some T's prefer to eat when it's dark & a T can change after a molt. So what it did before is not always relevant after a molt.
Also try smaller food. My wifes Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli is a total woss when it comes to food, anything too big & I mean anything like a standard sized cricket & she hides. But put two or three small ones in at a time & she will eat all she can get, over night.
Another thing worth doing is try some crickets, see it they induce an eating response.
But another thing worth considering, is. If it does not want to eat & T's can go months without eating, then get yourself a cold beer & put something worth watching on the TV, because it could be a long wait.
I have also had to remove the hide a few times which has clearly stressed the t out as its strikes at the tweezers but j have had to do this to remove the roach that I have put in as after a day theyre still in the Hyde but theyre buried and would rather it not stay in there with the tThanks the dubia roaches are about as big as her abdomen but thought it should be fine so I might as she was eating fine before and I forgot to mention that its a unsexed Tliltocatl vegans and it may be in there nature to do this it tends to run straight to its hide as soon as i open the lid and but it never came out before and it did run at me out of the enclosure thinking presumably that I was food so its clearly hungry.
Well I was feeding it crickets with no problems but my pet supplies store is dodgy to say the least and half the tub would be dead before you even buy them and then the rest would die after a few days and whilst not too expensive at £2.50 a box that money soon mounts up hence why i changed to the roaches as they last longer. And was also worried about parasites that crickets can causeCrush the heads of dubia to keep them from burrowing
Try different feeders, some Ts don't care for dubia
They dodo they carry mealworms?
HiWell I was feeding it crickets with no problems but my pet supplies store is dodgy to say the least and half the tub would be dead before you even buy them and then the rest would die after a few days and whilst not too expensive at £2.50 a box that money soon mounts up hence why i changed to the roaches as they last longer. And was also worried about parasites that crickets can cause
I've had the opposite experience, but I have found that if I buy from the source that the pet stores do they last a lot longer for me, although I try to feed them all out within a day or two of buying themAlso
Banded(brown) crickets are hardier than the black ones