Do Tarantulas Drink?

[dGr8-1]

If they do drink? How? Has anyone seen them do this?

 

[billopelma]

They sure do, I've seen many of mine drink out of dishes or suck in spray droplets off surfaces. Of course they seem to prefer filling the dishes with dirt and discarded food or poo'ing in them...

Bill

 

[Mushroom Spore]

If they do drink? How? Has anyone seen them do this?

Um...they drink with their mouths. It's not particularly complicated, and yes plenty of people have seen it.

 

[Whiskeypunk]

If they do drink? How? Has anyone seen them do this?

I have seen T. Blondi roll up wet substrate and suck the water out of it. I have also seen the same spider drink from it's water dish. She splays her legs out and then pushes her mouth into the water. I have even seen a picture of a T. Blondi going "swimming" on these very boards.

 

[SPIDERBYTE]

Yes they do, though you might never actually see them do it. I wondered if my rosies water dish was just a decorative pool that I refilled as it eventually evaporated. Then one day I saw her with her "face" in the water and was immediately relieved, I was worried that she was gonna dry up like a prune (cause she also went on a winter fast and didnt eat for like 6 months!)

 

[dGr8-1]

They sure do, I've seen many of mine drink out of dishes or suck in spray droplets off surfaces. Of course they seem to prefer filling the dishes with dirt and discarded food or poo'ing in them...

Bill

AMAZING!!! You even have a picture of it!!! WOW!

My red knee's probably one thirsty Tarantula. That explains why the dish dries out so fast.

 

[Puppet Master]

T's dont drink a large amount of water, more water evaporates then goes into the T.



and Bill that GGB is Awsome, the colors are so vivid

 

[Juraki]

If given a large roach my C.fasciatum eats, drops the partially eaten roach, then drinks, and comes back to the roach. So I have seen it drink 3 times in one hour. Guess we all need to wash down a big meal every now and then.

 

[mikeythefireman]

My slings crawl up to the droplets on the side of the vial and bury their mouth in the droplet. You can actually see the droplet get smaller.

 

[dGr8-1]

I wish one of these days I'll be able to see it...
Sometimes i fall asleep waiting for them to do something. hehehe

 

[Fierce Deity]

I was watching my G. rosea drink yesterday, and what he did was fascinating. He put a drop of water on his mouth area, and I watched as the hanging droplet got smaller and smaller until it was gone. I didn't know that they drank as slowly as they eat. but the evidence is quite clear, they do indeed drink.

 

[wicked]

Several of my tarantulas will bring their crickets over to the water dish to eat them. I have seen them put down the cricket, get a drink, then go back to eating. When my B smithi is done, he dumps the bolus in the water dish.

If my G rosea's water dish goes dry he will sit in it till I fill it again. My G pulchra does it too. Guess they are breaking down the tarantula/human communication barrier

 

[Varden]

My red knee's probably one thirsty Tarantula. That explains why the dish dries out so fast.

Actually, you might want to bring your dish out and scrub it thoroughly. If the water's disappearing fast, there might be a fine web leeching the water out into the substrate.

 

[car1097]

my avic avic only drinks drops rom the side of its tank...and throws cricket parts in her water bowl...ive been thinking of removing it...my rosies all drink from their dishes...and my scorp usually drinks from the ground but is sometimes found in the water bowl

 

[Juraki]

Several of my tarantulas will bring their crickets over to the water dish to eat them. I have seen them put down the cricket, get a drink, then go back to eating. When my B smithi is done, he dumps the bolus in the water dish.

If my G rosea's water dish goes dry he will sit in it till I fill it again. My G pulchra does it too. Guess they are breaking down the tarantula/human communication barrier

LOL so does my smithi, I think he taught my auratum the trick too. With the room getting into the mid 80's during the day, it gets stinky fast. I also had my G.rosea's dish dry out for the first time since I got it, and it mine sat in it too. Then again it always hangs out right next to it, or with a leg or two in the water. :?

 

[PoPpiLLs]

Yes my P. regalis has been drinking for about 5 minutes straight its in premolt

 

[SpiderZone2]

My L. parahybana drinks from her dish and so does H. maculata, A. seemani, B. smithi, P. murinus, and B. bohmei. I also noticed several other that would rather suck it from the substrate than drink from any dish. P. nigricolor, N. chromatus, N. coloratovillosus, G. aureostriata and B. vagons. Yet some other prefer a small pool of water or water droplets. A. avicularia, A. versicolor like water droplets. At least mine do. P. irminia, P. miranda, P. cambridgei, B. albopilosum seem to prefer small pools of water to drink from. This is just what I have noticed in some of the species I have or have seen. Really kind of cool to catch them doing this. But I give them a choice since at the beginning I never knew anything of this. I still provide a water dish reguardless if they bury it or not. I just dig it up and clean it out and refill it only to redo it again.

My A. seemani will also sit in her dish if empty waiting for me to fill it. Then she slowely lowers herself to drink and then leaves the dish. She always hangs out near her dish.

 

[Stylopidae]

Iunno about Ts, but my lycosa sp. has one hell of a hangover.

 

[jw73]

I saw few of them drink.

 

[Techuser]

trues and scorp: