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Yikes mate, dont have to be aggressive about it. It is possible to offer advice without <edit>.To clarify, it was very timid initially and I used the tongs to place the food items (prekilled mealworms) near it. I dont brush up on the wee thing with them, as Ive heard and seen the stories of them running up tongs at people.Your T is going to die perhaps if you keep up your bad husbandry, ie tong craziness.
Who the hell feeds a T with silverware
You think they are spoonfed in the wild??!!!
Do your T a favor and research husbandry here on AB
Thank you for the advice. This is the enclosure it was sold to me in and I was told it would be good for a few more molts (it has molted twice thus far), I added the bark which is is hollow underneath. Its behavior has changed drastically since the last molt; it was calm, bordering on timid. Didnt react much when I opened the enclosure to feed and only gently grasped prey items. Now it darts around looking for anything disturbing the enclosure and has a ~much~ more aggressive feeding response.
Exactly what happened with mine.
Wasnt aware of the first, have seen plenty of videos of the second. Thanks for the info.
Interesting, new info for me, I was under the impression that pulchripes was (on average of course) a more laid back species.
I have plenty of timid Ts, I don’t use tongs, they are all capable ambush predators.Yikes mate, dont have to be aggressive about it. It is possible to offer advice without <edit>.To clarify, it was very timid initially and I used the tongs to place the food items (prekilled mealworms) near it. I dont brush up on the wee thing with them, as Ive heard and seen the stories of them running up tongs at people.
Thank you for the advice. This is the enclosure it was sold to me in and I was told it would be good for a few more molts (it has molted twice thus far), I added the bark which is is hollow underneath. Its behavior has changed drastically since the last molt; it was calm, bordering on timid. Didnt react much when I opened the enclosure to feed and only gently grasped prey items. Now it darts around looking for anything disturbing the enclosure and has a ~much~ more aggressive feeding response.
Exactly what happened with mine.
Wasnt aware of the first, have seen plenty of videos of the second. Thanks for the info.
Interesting, new info for me, I was under the impression that pulchripes was (on average of course) a more laid back species.
I would point out that a great and overwhelming majority of T's die in the wild before they reach maturity, and I would rather mine did not. In the same vein, if we only ever did things the ~natural~ way, you and I would be eating our meat raw and sleeping in trees.I have plenty of timid Ts, I don’t use tongs, they are all capable ambush predators.
So timid Ts are spoonfed by humans in the wild...
All specimens are unique, like people, generally the genus is laid back. You have a spicy one for now, maybe forever.
Good luck with that approach.
Yes, but let's always remember that here we are talking about keeping T's in captivity, where there's nothing 'external' able to harm those (like the 'in the wild' predators, or natural events like floodings etc) except for our bad care - I'm talking in general, at 360°, now, I'm not saying that your care isn't correct.
A cursory understanding of arithmetic would show that the overwhelming majority must die, as with any R selected species. If a female T can reproduce a few times before she passes, each time laying, say, 150 eggs (far from the maximum possible for many species), even 20% of the offspring surviving to reproductive age would lead to a world drowning in tarantulas.
You do raise a good point. More than a few types of exotic pet suffer for poor care decisions made by well meaning people.
"must die"... a cursory understanding of facts would be that until someone has done the study, we technically don't know. I deal in facts not assumption when it comes to certain things, this is one of them. I think most die, "overwhelming majority" is a vague phrase. Case closed on that.
Your T is going to die perhaps if you keep up your bad husbandry, ie tong craziness.
Who the hell feeds a T with silverware
You think they are spoonfed in the wild??!!!
Do your T a favor and research husbandry here on AB
I never acted like the number was actually 20%. That's what we like to call an "example". And yes, we do know, without a shadow of doubt or uncertainty, that most must die. We know that by dint of the fact that the world is not literally drowning under a tide of tarantulas. That isn't assumption, that's based on knowledge of an enormous variety of R selected species across all multicellular life, including other spiders. Get out of here with that "we technically don't know" nonsense unless you're aware of a law of physics that magically de-manifests the excess tarantulas.