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Right folks brace yourselves for yet another newbie question though this one is on behalf of my aunt and not me).
My aunt bought an adult female Chile Rose about 7 weeks ago which I had been looking after for a bit. Now this girl was a real sweetheart with me and very well mannered (never showed any hint of a threat posture or hair kicking).
However my aunt has noticed that in the last two weeks she has been very jumpy, kicking hair and also lunging at unwary hands that enter her cage. I'm at a total loss to explain her behaviour and put it down to Chile rosies being very unpredictable in terms of personality.
However my mum had a theory about "Scruffy's" personality changes and I wonder if she has a point. My aunt has a large curly hair which shares Scruffys shelf and she was wondering if Scruffy was being un-nerved at the pressence (or smell) of the curly hair (which is massive by the way). When I kept Scruffy she was downstairs on her own and I never had a problem with her. My aunt has only recently moved the two trantulas to be on the same cabinet.
I wonder seriously if the pressence of another tarantula is causing her behaviour as I did a small experiment with my male Chile rose today. He is very calm for a male and like Scruffy had never once shown any threatening behaviour. Out of interest I dropped a moulted skin from my female Chile rose in his cage and almost at once he reared back and showed his fangs. It seems odd that he acts this way towards another tarantula and yet be perfectly fine with people and I wondered if Scruffy may be the same?! Is it possible she's picking up the pressence of the big curly hair and therefore sees any movement as a threat?
Answers on a post card! :8o
My aunt bought an adult female Chile Rose about 7 weeks ago which I had been looking after for a bit. Now this girl was a real sweetheart with me and very well mannered (never showed any hint of a threat posture or hair kicking).
However my aunt has noticed that in the last two weeks she has been very jumpy, kicking hair and also lunging at unwary hands that enter her cage. I'm at a total loss to explain her behaviour and put it down to Chile rosies being very unpredictable in terms of personality.
However my mum had a theory about "Scruffy's" personality changes and I wonder if she has a point. My aunt has a large curly hair which shares Scruffys shelf and she was wondering if Scruffy was being un-nerved at the pressence (or smell) of the curly hair (which is massive by the way). When I kept Scruffy she was downstairs on her own and I never had a problem with her. My aunt has only recently moved the two trantulas to be on the same cabinet.
I wonder seriously if the pressence of another tarantula is causing her behaviour as I did a small experiment with my male Chile rose today. He is very calm for a male and like Scruffy had never once shown any threatening behaviour. Out of interest I dropped a moulted skin from my female Chile rose in his cage and almost at once he reared back and showed his fangs. It seems odd that he acts this way towards another tarantula and yet be perfectly fine with people and I wondered if Scruffy may be the same?! Is it possible she's picking up the pressence of the big curly hair and therefore sees any movement as a threat?
Answers on a post card! :8o