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Weird. I've had her for five months now, and she's never been with a male during that time. I got her from a pet store so I don't know of her time before that. Uh oh lol.
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I've been scouring the Web but can't really find any info that I'm looking for. Are their any other reasons besides an impending molt for an abdomen to swell in size?
She molted in June and is now approximately 5". But lately her abdomen has exploded in growth and she's gone off her...
With the fact that she ignored a prey item, and that her abdomen looks huge, maybe she's premolt. I brought home a rosie in (unknown to me) almost in premolt. She went into premolt a couple of weeks after I brought her home and she molted almost two months later. Premolt made her very moody...
1. Maybe. Most likely If it did, the cricket would be a goner soon. It's possible that it bit the cricket to defend itself. Use a pair of tweezers and take the cricket away even if it seems to be dying. A tarantula in premolt is very vulnerable to the bites of crickets. Premolt...
I would just leave her be. My rosie went into premolt late March and finally molted early June. She webbed herself inside the hide more than a few times and broke it down to get some water. Finally she webbed up her hide a fourth and final time and took approximately five hours to molt...
Ok, thanks. I plan to keep weekly measurements on them. To be fair, the previous weight was in premolt when her abdomen look like it was going to burst.
I also didn't realize about the winter season thing. I think I will adopt that practice. I have their enclosures in proximity of a...
Hey! Back in March, I got a rosie from the pet store. Took her to the vet (since I didn't know anything about tarantulas and wanted to know if it was healthy) and the vet who owns several dozen tarantulas himself sexed her as female. He weighed her and it was 16g. She went into premolt...
You can't judge 1300 stores on your particular one. I work at a big box store, and our quiet room definitely isn't "horrible." All our pets get prompt medical care. Perhaps instead of vilifing a company, you report what you saw to the right connections. Oh yeah, that was a long time ago...
She returned to the prey overnight and ate another quarter of it, so I just threw it away this AM. Weird. No signs of premolt either. My other rosea is premolt
Eleven days ago, I purchased a G. rosea. I gave her plenty of time to settle in, and tried to feed her for the first time yesterday. I feed her a cricket that was too small I guess, because she struck at it but missed? It ran into her hide and she followed but it crawled out... unscathed...