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I must say I am surprised at the assumptions that I let others hold her and at the negative response you have all shown, I have been doing the school shows now for the last 2 and a half years and have had some great feedback and a lot of response from parents asking what they need to know before...
In any of the school visits I do I always supply them with a copy of the presentation I do, this has examples of different T's from Honduras curlys and Rose, to OBT's and the other defensive/aggressive types of T, I do this presentation along with many other animals Inc scorpions, bearded...
I have had my Rose foe about 3 years, she was my first T, who I now show at schools along with my other animals, she seems to come more alive and will actively walk onto my hand to be picked up if I place my hand in her tank, she dose have the occasional day where she will tell me to go away but...
Update on Marmite....she has surprised me with a molt and she looks stunning now, colour really showing, in the last 5 days she has eaten 3 big morio worm, seems to love them, offered her cricket/small locust but won't eat, but really loves morio's. Here's a fre pics.....
Not sure how to start it off tho and where to get them from as nowhere local to me in the UK sells them, also not sure about online suppliers as heard bad thing, anyone any ideas
I have had my Rose (called Marmite) for about 14 months now and for the last 4 months she has been really fussy with her food, I have tried various size crickets/locust but nothing to big, has anyone else had this problem or is there any other food that I could try?