I'm actually in Canada, where the pet and wildlife laws are a disorganized mess. Each province has its own laws, and in my province (Ontario) they leave it up to towns and cities to create their own by-laws. If I move even a couple of miles, the laws are completely different. Thankfully the enforcement is complaint-based.
damn that sounds just way too confusing and not necessary to me! I personally don't believe that there should be any laws prohibiting people to own tarantulas! now a monkey, tiger, leopard, kangaroo, alligator, etc. that's understandable to have laws against owning them!
I am really glad I am not the only one who has done this:
:. I also live in an apartment but dropped a tub of x small crickets... What a nightmare... I still had crickets running around for days... Also my neighbours have no idea about my collection and I intend to keep it that way! Reading your story did make me laugh tho!!In my state there are some cities that will not allow constrictor snakes to be for sale or have one if you live in those cities. Fortunately I live in a city that does allow them. Pet skunks were banned recently from a nearby city. Tarantulas are allowed but pets stores in my state can not buy or sell our native tarantula.
That's what vacuum cleaners were made for!
You're GBB's not likely to drown.yeah im probably going to start doing that because the "waterdish" that im using right now is just a plastic cup that I cut about 1/4 and buried into the substrate and put some small rocks in so that my GBB doesn't drown when trying to get some water. and I have a sneaking suspicion that there may be a very small leak that the bottom that causing even more moisture in the immediate surrounding substrate than there should be! still learning a lot though when it comes to this hobby so to get all my enclosures perfect will just come with time, and a little bit of money of course
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damn im not sure I feel that pain you felt! that had to have sucked! they will eventually die off though! itll be impossle to get them all by stomping around.
I believe that what you are experiencing is not a "leak", but rather what many of us refer to as the "wicking effect". If anything is touching the top of the dish, like substrate or webbing, the water will wick quickly out of the bowl and into the substrate, and it can happen very quickly. Common with heavier webbing t's, of which your GBB is at the top of the webbing list.
I have a solution, make sure the spider is going to eat the cricket, my spiders do not allow the crickets to live long.You're GBB's not likely to drown.
I don't believe those crickets that escaped will die off quick, they will last and live a long time in a house. We like it nice and dry, just like them, and they can get by on very little.
Like a zombie, rising once again out of seemingly nowhere comes another reference to "only feed males to my t". I never heard it before and after the thread I really thought it was forever dead. I know its not quite voiced the same here in this thread, but its in the general direction.
I suppose if you cut enough off, but I think it's possible for her to still lay em unless you block the whole orifice. I just feed females to really hungry Ts and I don't have to worry about it.
yeah I know that would be a quick solution to the problem, but its mainly the way I feel about rather than the T itself. I just like the way it has it webbing right now. and im sure she does too. I think im just gonna try the dog food strategy and see if that helps a little. if not then ill just grab them out one by one as they get bigger.
I was thinking the same exact thing. lol
well my GBB's webbing isn't touching the waterbowl or even close to the waterbowl. it could be the substrate, but there is a little lip of plastic that raises above the substrate and the waterline is a little bit lower than the rim of the waterbowl. that's why I was thinking it could be a leak...You're GBB's not likely to drown.
I don't believe those crickets that escaped will die off quick, they will last and live a long time in a house. We like it nice and dry, just like them, and they can get by on very little.
Like a zombie, rising once again out of seemingly nowhere comes another reference to "only feed males to my t". I never heard it before and after the thread I really thought it was forever dead. I know its not quite voiced the same here in this thread, but its in the general direction.
I think im going to do your strategy mixed with one someone else gave me with the dog food. ill just put a piece of dog food at the bottom of the vial to attract as much as possible into the vial.
Far more humane to be stomped to death. It's how I hope to go one day...
lmao unless giants are real and they come sliding down a bean stock then I think your SOL on that one! lol id rather just go in my sleep, much more simpler and peaceful, atleast I think so. crickets on the otherhand, I bet they would prefer to be stomped then to be stabbed by fangs and then slowly die from venom liquidating their insides and then all their insides sucked dry out of them!
You do have a flowery way with words. I bet you write romance novels on the side.
lol if I did try to write a romance novel, I honestly don't think it would be considered a "romance novel" to anyone else.
What are you a freak? Oh wait, your "handle", nevermind.;P
lol no im just saying, it would probably be a very "dumbed" down version of what people consider romance novels. im okay at trying to explain the things I come up with in my head, but writing a book, that's a different story. plus I don't exactly have the type of patience for that either.
You could of used a shop vac to suck them up, and probably saved a god bit of them too.