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The staredown!
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The tarantula skeleton is awesome. Where did you find it?
Crickets are pretty small for a Theraphosa, I feed mine adult B dubia and an occasional G portentosa (hissers). Yours may not be interested in the crickets small size, since she is clearly well fed. Skip feeding for about 4 weeks, she will gladly take a cricket then. Also, be careful of overfeeding, T stirmi are known for bad molts. A large abdomen adds to this complication.
I hope you pre-killed the mouse before dropping it in. A struggling mouse can do severe damage to a tarantula.
Crickets are pretty small for a Theraphosa, I feed mine adult B dubia and an occasional G portentosa (hissers). Yours may not be interested in the crickets small size, since she is clearly well fed. Skip feeding for about 4 weeks, she will gladly take a cricket then. Also, be careful of overfeeding, T stirmi are known for bad molts. A large abdomen adds to this complication.
I hope you pre-killed the mouse before dropping it in. A struggling mouse can do severe damage to a tarantula.
Believe it or not the skeleton T was found in a hospital store.
My wife has cancer and for pre surgery one of the nurses got it for it before she went in to get ready for surgery.they removed most of it just needs a little chemo and radiation to finish it off!
she usually don't want anything to eat for 6 weeks if she had a mouse.
Her abdomen as been about that size since we got her almost a year ago.
she had a pet mouse once, other then that they are fuzzies or hoppers.
No I don't prekill as she seems to take kill it right away.
I tried the Dubias and she was not interested. Even when I know shes hungry.
Ron
My wife has cancer and for pre surgery one of the nurses got it for it before she went in to get ready for surgery.they removed most of it just needs a little chemo and radiation to finish it off!
she usually don't want anything to eat for 6 weeks if she had a mouse.
Her abdomen as been about that size since we got her almost a year ago.
she had a pet mouse once, other then that they are fuzzies or hoppers.
No I don't prekill as she seems to take kill it right away.
I tried the Dubias and she was not interested. Even when I know shes hungry.
Ron
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U might wanna try to wait her out for a little while and keep offering roaches...or something large. I know constant vertebrate meals for tarantulas is not really a good thing. well at least from what ive read. hell who knows maybe there are ones in the wild that eat nothing but mice...also best wishes to ur wife!
Best of luck for your wife, Personally wont feed live mammels but if I had a huge T I would possibly occasionally feed a frozen (thawed of course) pinky.
also, went looking for a skeletal T, ebay has some ^^ link on my profile
also, went looking for a skeletal T, ebay has some ^^ link on my profile
