Avic at petsmart

[Thekla]

Alongside I want to try my first live mealworm, or small cricket, for the A. Geniculata

A whole living mealworm? Do you have mealworms that small? I think a piece of it would be better, but whatever you do, crush their heads before feeding them!
Otherwise they'll burrow and disappear and could potentially hurt your T when it moults.

 

[Ungoliant]

I think I will get him then as soon as I can grab an enclosure, how much harder is an arboreal to care for, my two slings are a gbb, and A. Geniculata,

They're really not that hard to care for, and a juvenile of that size is well past the more fragile sling stage. The main reason Avics have a reputation for being fragile is reliance on bad care sheets or pet store advice that results in moist, stuffy enclosures.

Contrary to what you may have read, Avics do well with dry substrate and a water dish. (Someone already linked the two care threads, so I won't.)

Your enclosure looks decent, but I I'd keep the floor free of clutter, as the Avic seldom goes down there, and clutter just provides places for feeder insects to hide.

 

[Pyrelitha]

A whole living mealworm? Do you have mealworms that small? I think a piece of it would be better, but whatever you do, crush their heads before feeding them!
Otherwise they'll burrow and disappear and could potentially hurt your T when it moults.

I have some really tiny ones, but if he doesnt take them down then I'll just crush its head for him.

 

[Thekla]

I have some really tiny ones, but if he doesnt take them down then I'll just crush its head for him.

If it doesn't take the mealworm down, it's propably too late to crush their heads. They burrow fast! Believe me, just crush its head before you feed it. It'll wiggle and move even with its head crushed and trigger a feeding response.

I always crush their heads, no matter what size of the worm or the T.

 

[ALD]

Well I got mine from PetSmart too.....lol they claimed to have a curly hair but by the time I got there it was good.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a GBB and a Brazilian Black when the reptile expo comes here

 

[Andrea82]

I have some really tiny ones, but if he doesnt take them down then I'll just crush its head for him.

Not good enough I'm afraid. You need (!) to crush them before throwing them in. If there is a hungry mealworm in your spiders enclosure while it molts, it will eat your spider. This is not exaggerated. A soft, newly molted spider cannot defend itself and is a healthy meal for mealworms and superworms. Even crickets could harm a soft spider.

Crush the heads. They will still wriggle enough to get the spiders' attention.

Did you take the moss out yet? It was still visible in your last pictures.

 

[Pyrelitha]

Not good enough I'm afraid. You need (!) to crush them before throwing them in. If there is a hungry mealworm in your spiders enclosure while it molts, it will eat your spider. This is not exaggerated. A soft, newly molted spider cannot defend itself and is a healthy meal for mealworms and superworms. Even crickets could harm a soft spider.

Crush the heads. They will still wriggle enough to get the spiders' attention.

Did you take the moss out yet? It was still visible in your last pictures.

The moss is out of the Avic's enclosure, the little guy did take down the worm but what I meant was I just wanted to see if he'd take it live, I wasn't going to leave a live one unattended in there. I would have smashed his head if the spoder didn't immediately grab it.

If it doesn't take the mealworm down, it's propably too late to crush their heads. They burrow fast! Believe me, just crush its head before you feed it. It'll wiggle and move even with its head crushed and trigger a feeding response.

I always crush their heads, no matter what size of the worm or the T.

That I didn't know, and I'll crush the head first for them then, though he took the live one down very quickly, I just kinda didnt like prekilled crickets since they didnt move so he didn't get to do a real takedown. But if the worms move after dying that'll fix it all anyway.

 

[viper69]

Yes! I wont do spraying, there is a lot of ventilation for the little guy, and I gim him plenty of stuff, heres some pics, though im not at home to do some up to date ones, he's webbing the corkbark minorly, and I removed the moss.

Some Avics won’t drink from bowls, or they do sporadically and seem to forget they have a bowl.

In such cases I add water onto glass and mostly webbing canopy using a blunt tip syringe.

 

[Pyrelitha]

HE\SHE ATE ^.^ the pic isnt great but she webbed all around herself and I cant take a picture through the webs, but I just dropped the cricket on the web and she grabbed him.

Some Avics won’t drink from bowls, or they do sporadically and seem to forget they have a bowl.

In such cases I add water onto glass and mostly webbing canopy using a blunt tip syringe.

so essentially just put drops on the wall and her web?