My avic avic

[Entity]

my avic avic Pembe watched me put fresh water in her bowl and waited until i was finished and walked over a dove in.

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

That is odd to me. What is the humidity like in her tank.

 

[Therasoid]

my avic avic Pembe watched me put fresh water in her bowl and waited until i was finished and walked over a dove in.

Cool picture Entity.
Its rare to get a picture of one actually getting a drink.
You must have a camera "at the ready", whenever you're around your T's. Lol!

 

[Entity]

That is odd to me. What is the humidity like in her tank.

TGuy,

It is about 70 - 90% usually. I let it dry out through the week though. I am afraid if i keep it too moist ill start getting mold. But i mist her cage twice a week. why? am i doing something wrong u think? but she ALWAYS has water in her bowl even when the cage is drying out. i just thought it wierd she didnt decide to go down and get a drink intil i topped it off.

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

No it sound like everything is right, I only reason I though it was odd is that mine will only drink droplet off the side of her tank. She has never that I have seen go down to her water bowl. I just keep it to help humidity. I would say to try to keep it closer to 70% then 90% on the humidity. The reason she wait to drink it may be that she can not see standing water as a drink. When the water moves she may then know that it is water to drink. I am not sure that tarantula can have that, but I have a gecko that is that way, gecko and spider are very different animals. It is just my guess that this may be for the same reason.

 

[Entity]

Gotcha. Thanks for the input. :::

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

You are welcome.

 

[Entity]

She did it again tonight Tguy, lol I misted her cage, topped off her water dish and as i was topping it off she came over and sat there beside the dish. when i was finished topping off the bowl, she dove in. lol funny. My Dogs do that...maybe she saw them doing it? lol

 

[Therasoid]

She did it again tonight Tguy, lol I misted her cage, topped off her water dish and as i was topping it off she came over and sat there beside the dish. when i was finished topping off the bowl, she dove in. lol funny. My Dogs do that...maybe she saw them doing it? lol

Monkey see, monkey do. Lol!
Apparently it knows the location of the water bowl and prefers drinking from it. You may have the one in a million water dish drinking arboreal T, not a bad thing just out of the ordinary.
Is it, by chance, coming into pre molt? May be the reason its drinking from the dish. Just a thought.

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

Therasoid is right it could be trying to get extra water for an up coming molt.

 

[Entity]

That makes sense. Ive only had her for about a month and a half now. and she ravages food usually. But the last 2 weeks i tried to feed her, she wanted nothing to do with dinner. I cant tell by her bum, all her hairs are on there.

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

I have noticed with my A. aviculaira that it will not have much of a bald spot, but look for the darkening.

 

[Entity]

I cant really tell she is pretty dark anyway. i dont notice much of a difference. maybe shes not in premolt. maybe she is just weird. lol she is a female. lol it goes with the sex. lol

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

If you have a magnifying glass you can look and tell with one of them.

 

[Entity]

Well that might have been what it was....getting extra water for her upcoming molt...got home from work tuesday afternoon and she was sitting beside herself.lol

 

[tarantulaguy1994]

I am sure it was the water for the molt then.

 

[spidey noob]

congrats on the moult

 

[Entity]

congrats on the moult

Thanks noob.

 

[Entity]

Well, here is some pics...what do you guys think? female for sure?

 

[spidey noob]

i would say female !!!