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Sorry folks this post is just a little observation I've made and I was wondering if anyone shared similar experiences with their adult males.
I bought an adult male G.rosea back at the end of December and have been very happy with him bar one problem. He has a little foot missing on one of his legs and whenever this scrapes against the side of the tank it makes a very loud squeeking noise. This becomes a bit of a pain in the bahooky at night when one is trying to sleep as he is very active when the lights go out.
On Tuesday however I'd just tidied my room and was thinking about how good my room would be to let a hamster run around in (I used to keep hamsters and let them wander around a room on their own). It then occured to me that if the room was safe for a hamster to wander around then surely it would be OK for a male tarantula as well. There isn't really anything he can climb aside from the bed so I figured it would be easy to keep an eye on that.
So I took the boy out, dimed the light slighlty and let him wander around the room for a good half hour. While he was doing that I noticed he stopped and drummed every 5mins or so and was plodding along quite the thing. Didn't look like he was stressed out at all (he stopped to have a groom at one point).
That night he didn't seem so agitated when he was put back in his cage and indeed it was the first time I've ever seen him use his hide and stay there for a while.
So if this a good idea? Or is there something I don't know about that could be stressing little "Duffy".
Opinions welcome
I bought an adult male G.rosea back at the end of December and have been very happy with him bar one problem. He has a little foot missing on one of his legs and whenever this scrapes against the side of the tank it makes a very loud squeeking noise. This becomes a bit of a pain in the bahooky at night when one is trying to sleep as he is very active when the lights go out.
On Tuesday however I'd just tidied my room and was thinking about how good my room would be to let a hamster run around in (I used to keep hamsters and let them wander around a room on their own). It then occured to me that if the room was safe for a hamster to wander around then surely it would be OK for a male tarantula as well. There isn't really anything he can climb aside from the bed so I figured it would be easy to keep an eye on that.
So I took the boy out, dimed the light slighlty and let him wander around the room for a good half hour. While he was doing that I noticed he stopped and drummed every 5mins or so and was plodding along quite the thing. Didn't look like he was stressed out at all (he stopped to have a groom at one point).
That night he didn't seem so agitated when he was put back in his cage and indeed it was the first time I've ever seen him use his hide and stay there for a while.
So if this a good idea? Or is there something I don't know about that could be stressing little "Duffy".
Opinions welcome
