Parahybana faceplant

[c'est ma]

(With apologies to anyone who also saw this on ATS...)

OK, maybe I'm easily amused, but this cracked me up. I was feeding my ~ 3" juvie L. parahybana a full-grown cricket, but the crick managed to scoot away from the first scuffle.

Now, this is a T that does not wait for food to come to her...She set off after the food, which managed to hide right beneath a fake leaf that the T has (un)helpfully half-buried. For a while we had a T on top of the leaf ineffectively lunging at the cricket beneath it...

Then the crick managed to dart through the loose coco fiber & apparently ended up in a burrow branch that runs along the bottom of the KK. And SOMEHOW the spider could sense the cricket was down there (motion?), and--here's where it gets entertaining--decided the shortest distance between 2 points being what it is, the best idea was to simply plunge headfirst through the coco. Or try to:

This went on for several tries; plunging in, freezing for a while, backing out, then "hearing" the cricket again & plunging back in. These are just a few of the many pics I grabbed of the stageshow:

Unfortunately pretty blurry, but it shows her at maximum plunge:

Eventually it seemed to dawn on her that she wasn't getting anyplace...so here she is ambling off to her actual burrow entrance, leaving a divot behind:

Shortly afterwards, an obvious earthquake in the KK indicated what turned out to be a successful encounter with dinner...

 

[c'est ma]

And here she is a bit later, enjoying dinner:

 

[rejected1]

Haha, that's why I love LP. They are always hungry. =]

 

[Neophyte]

That was really entertaining. I love it when T's are silleh :3

 

[sjeckert6297]

Man now I really can't wait to get mine (hopefully tomorrow it will arrive)! That is so funny. She worked hard for that meal!

 

[Endagr8]

Cool story. I can imagine my LPs doing the same thing.

I like your water dish. Where did you get it?

 

[SCORPIONNOOB]

Man she was jonesin for the crix!!

 

[Agent Jones]

Hahaha, that's awesome! I have all lazy eaters.. unless the cricket walks into them, they pretty much don't eat.

 

[jeff1962]

Hahaha, that's awesome! I have all lazy eaters.. unless the cricket walks into them, they pretty much don't eat.

Don't feed them for a couple weeks. Its amazing how there attitude toward food will change.

 

[SCORPIONNOOB]

My pink toe (Which ive only had for about 4 days now has seemed to let me know when shes hungry by walking down her log and letting her 2 front legs just dangle off the log JUST about touching the substrate. Crix goes in, touches the leg, ambush!!!

 

[G. pulchra]

Mine is the same way, hunts down it's food

 

[wedge07]

Lol, that's funny.

 

[Mina]

Very cute!!!!! The poor baby!! She was hungry and that silly cricket wasn't being cooperative!! I'm glad she finally got her dinner!

 

[WS6Lethal]

I think that's great. Food tastes better when it's worked for.

 

[m3z]

dude thats funny. I have one and can't wait for her personality to come about. I got a good laugh out of those pictures!

 

[Arachnoholic420]

cool pics and funny behavior...... but i cant say the same for mine these past few weeks since i rehoused her... she's actaully being more private these past few i dont see her out too often she even covered the entrance of her hide...??? this is her during the first week

then a few days later

last time i saw her out

then now

fully sealed.....

 

[c'est ma]

Hey, thanks EVERYONE for all the replies! I got busy and didn't get around to acknowledging them sooner, but it's always nice to know a story was appreciated.

Cool story. I can imagine my LPs doing the same thing.

I like your water dish. Where did you get it?

Those were some specimen dishes I had on hand from other projects. Probably got them here:
http://www.carolina.com/product/equ...+stacking+type,+37+x+25+mm.do?sortby=ourPicks
My growing slings got too big for bottlecaps, and I was looking for something else and thought to try these, and I ended up really liking them too. The selection of "pet" bowls in the stores around here lately has been pretty hopeless! I think I'll probably use glazed plant saucers for the next step...

It's funny, but my L.p. really seems to like this dish, too. Spends a lot of time near or on it...not only when she's drinking! Such an interesting spider.

Arachnoholic480--I'll bet yours is getting ready to molt. Just be patient. Aren't they capable of great terraforming?

 

[Sky`Scorcher]

Wow, now I'm thinking of including LP's on my wishlist. I've seen a video where she chased her meal all the way to the end of the tank.

 

[c'est ma]

Wow, now I'm thinking of including LP's on my wishlist. I've seen a video where she chased her meal all the way to the end of the tank.

Oh, you should! I know, at first they don't seem all that interesting--not brightly colored, not at all rare!--but they really have so much personality, and they grow so fast you can start with a tiny sling and have a good sized spider in a year...

NB: for a couple of instars early on, mine stayed buried and was essentially a pet hole...but since then she's been no shrinking violet whatsoever.

 

[ZergFront]

Lol!

That was funny. Least the food offered her some extra stimulation rather than just a quick kill.