What's wrong with my t?

[rabbit]

She's walking in circles with a cricket in her mouth. I fed her two crickets and on the second one she started walking in circles and moving strangely could she be choking?. Help please!

 

[rabbit]

She spat it out and now she's standing over top of it.

 

[rabbit]

 

[Christell Erasmus]

Is she spinning while she does that? She is probably spinning herself a feeding mat . It is normal, all our tarantulas do that.

 

[MrBoom619]

When a T catches it's food, it webs it up by walking around in a circle. Think of shrink wrap. It basically shrink wraps it and with every twist it helps the T squeeze it's meal so it can eat all the juices and gets it small enough to completely shove it in it's mouth. The shrink wrapping really helps with bigger prey so it keeps it compact and not all over the place. I've also noticed when they have multiple prey items. They will drop the prey, web it up really good while on the ground then pull it up to eat. It's a cool thing to watch.

 

[rabbit]

Thanks! She's still doing it, does it normally take this long?

 

[rabbit]

She's been doing this for over 2 hours.

 

[MrBoom619]

Thanks! She's still doing it, does it normally take this long?

She'll do it until she's done eating. =)

 

[rabbit]

Thanks!

 

[Tara Russell]

Your big girl has a personality that's for sure XD sometimes T's will do a happy dance after they eat their prey it's like a victory dance

 

[SLAYANK]

Some ts can take along time to digest its food nothing to worry about.

 

[Fuzzball79]

I had been wondering about this, too, the first time I saw my Rosea do this. I then read about "feeding mat" webbing and saw it was perfectly normal behaviour. Does yours make herself really tall when she's holding her prey, too?
The webbing procedure itself looks hilarious: Mine wriggles her bottom from left to right.

 

[Christell Erasmus]

Your big girl has a personality that's for sure XD sometimes T's will do a happy dance after they eat their prey it's like a victory dance

We also call it a happy dance when they do this...

 

[bestco]

Nothing to worry about just making a food plate