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Thank you so much for the information! We will try to get the T on a much lighter cricket schedule and then see about getting her some similar substitute feeders we can keep in a colony. I really appreciate your advice!

Mine definitely appears to have a greater response to smaller prey from what I can tell. To be fair, I don't see her eating the crickets in her tank, but like I told @Andrea82 she appears to eat about 9-ish house crickets a week when I free feed her. I find boluses in the tank, so I don't...

Right, I see that a lot of people know that these guys can hold out a lot longer than the other T's. I would think from the size that this is an adult. The abdomen is about 2+ inches long and decently "plump". I offer it free-feed crickets pretty often and they get consumed pretty...

Awesome! These guys seem like a good fit and I'm going to try and see if I can find some to replace our G. portentosa colony. I'll try and look through my local options first before doing any shipping, but I really appreciate the advice!

Yeah, I get the impression on here that Grammostola species in general can go quite a while without feeding even compared to other T's. I'll have to consider the light poke option.

We also like having them for just general disposal of our old fruits and veggies so someone gets some use out of them. We end up buying crickets once a week because of the mortality of pet store crickets, and sometimes they die en route if we don't have the car temperature where they need it to...

Are these Blatta lateralis? I had poked around on some other feeder threads after posting mine and it sounded like they could maybe be a good compromise. Literally the only downside I've seen thus far is my girlfriend doesn't think they're as cute as the G. portentosa roaches. :D If I...

Yeah, I guess there's not really a super humane way to do it. We just knew the T wasn't super excited in eating the roaches and we didn't want them to have crushed heads for days on end. We actually started with Blaptica dubia for the T to try to eat, but they would always burrow under the...

Hi all! New poster here on Arachnoboards! I've used information from this site's threads a lot in the past for my experiences with keeping invertebrates at work. Now, my girlfriend and I have found ourselves the owners of a Grammostola rosea who needed a forever home. The tarantula has done...

cold blood, thanks very much for the tips! I apologize for my extremely late reply! We are probably close to 50 hissers now, and we're mostly just worried about how cramped they're probably all getting. I've definitely heard from both my colleague in our bug zoo and from other tarantula...

I'm not 100% sure if I'm doing this right, but hey everybody! I have lurked on these forums before, but I've never actually posted anything. I currently have a Grammostola rosea that my girlfriend and I are keeping as a forever pet from someone who can no longer take care of it. The T eats...