bafanabafana
Arachnopeon
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- Apr 15, 2011
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Hello all,
New to the forum, and new to tarantula keeping! Got my first T (honduran Curly hair) yesterday and the setup is pretty basic, as i was told to keep the sling in this enclosure for at leat two molts, he is in a small plastic enclosure and is not a tiny sling, his abdomen is about the size of my thumbnail. Eco Earth coco fiber is the substrate (to allow burrowing) and there is no water dish, i added a cardboard piece and made it into an arch which he likes to hide in, already making a neat little burrow from the back end of it out and around, has set up a thin layer of webbing all over the enclosure and the entrance to the burrow, but hasnt eaten yet, a hissing cockroach nymph (still pretty small, about a third the size of his abdomen) literally went into his burrow and sat in front of him and he didnt even flinch, left it for twenty minutes and no action, so removed it and tried a lobster roach nymph which is about a quarter the size of the hissing cockroach nymph, no action, apart from it becoming ensnared in web. Tried feeding twice yesterday and twice today, morning and evening...
is this okay/normal? i don't know when he last ate, but i at least know not for 36 hours and T slings are meant to have voracious appetites?
Any advice? Water Dish and Feeding help?
Thanks,
New to the forum, and new to tarantula keeping! Got my first T (honduran Curly hair) yesterday and the setup is pretty basic, as i was told to keep the sling in this enclosure for at leat two molts, he is in a small plastic enclosure and is not a tiny sling, his abdomen is about the size of my thumbnail. Eco Earth coco fiber is the substrate (to allow burrowing) and there is no water dish, i added a cardboard piece and made it into an arch which he likes to hide in, already making a neat little burrow from the back end of it out and around, has set up a thin layer of webbing all over the enclosure and the entrance to the burrow, but hasnt eaten yet, a hissing cockroach nymph (still pretty small, about a third the size of his abdomen) literally went into his burrow and sat in front of him and he didnt even flinch, left it for twenty minutes and no action, so removed it and tried a lobster roach nymph which is about a quarter the size of the hissing cockroach nymph, no action, apart from it becoming ensnared in web. Tried feeding twice yesterday and twice today, morning and evening...
is this okay/normal? i don't know when he last ate, but i at least know not for 36 hours and T slings are meant to have voracious appetites?
Any advice? Water Dish and Feeding help?
Thanks,
