Hi,
This is Nymphadora The Explorer, I got her a week ago and she is a sexed female. She is VERY active compared to my other Ts! Hopefully this is normal behaviour too, but I just wanted to check if her enclosure is okay. She does lots of circuits of the enclosure, and if I take the lid off she always wants to come out. I did hold her on the first day she arrived - I know you're not meant to/it's very dangerous for them. I don't plan to again but since she was so eager to come out I wanted that experience of holding a tarantula as a one-off.
My other Ts have reassured me by seeming to make the place their own; putting webbing up and settling into the hide for a while. I saw Nymphadora test out the hide once then she quickly came out again. You can't see very well but the main hide is the cork bark under the flowers, which although it is covered up goes all the way to the side of the enclosure she is standing on. The hole I made under there isn't that big but I thought that would give her the option of extending it under the bark to as large as she wants. I have since then worried what if she needs a really small space as a hide, so I have added the coconut dome as a second option, but I have not seen her try it yet.
If she is wanting to come out of the enclosure, I wondered if that means she needs a bigger place to explore? But I have also read that sometimes tarantulas pace if the space is too big and they haven't found 'home' yet? Then I wondered whether she is actually a male looking for a mate lol, as I have heard they wander a lot too at that stage. So I wondered if anyone can tell me from the underneath pic whether she defo seems female?
I fed her a few days after she arrived - she ate a few crickets and a locust. I have since tried another cricket wondering whether she was wandering looking for food, but she didn't eat it overnight to I took it out.
Any advice/ideas welcome!
This is Nymphadora The Explorer, I got her a week ago and she is a sexed female. She is VERY active compared to my other Ts! Hopefully this is normal behaviour too, but I just wanted to check if her enclosure is okay. She does lots of circuits of the enclosure, and if I take the lid off she always wants to come out. I did hold her on the first day she arrived - I know you're not meant to/it's very dangerous for them. I don't plan to again but since she was so eager to come out I wanted that experience of holding a tarantula as a one-off.
My other Ts have reassured me by seeming to make the place their own; putting webbing up and settling into the hide for a while. I saw Nymphadora test out the hide once then she quickly came out again. You can't see very well but the main hide is the cork bark under the flowers, which although it is covered up goes all the way to the side of the enclosure she is standing on. The hole I made under there isn't that big but I thought that would give her the option of extending it under the bark to as large as she wants. I have since then worried what if she needs a really small space as a hide, so I have added the coconut dome as a second option, but I have not seen her try it yet.
If she is wanting to come out of the enclosure, I wondered if that means she needs a bigger place to explore? But I have also read that sometimes tarantulas pace if the space is too big and they haven't found 'home' yet? Then I wondered whether she is actually a male looking for a mate lol, as I have heard they wander a lot too at that stage. So I wondered if anyone can tell me from the underneath pic whether she defo seems female?
I fed her a few days after she arrived - she ate a few crickets and a locust. I have since tried another cricket wondering whether she was wandering looking for food, but she didn't eat it overnight to I took it out.
Any advice/ideas welcome!