Fascinating G. Rosea Behavior.

[SarahAntula]

Well if you continue to use that enclosure, please DO NOT go by the picture. That picture displays very improper care. You will need to fill it up to at least half full with substrate.

Good luck

Thanks yep.. will do she will have at least half full substrate.

 

[SarahAntula]

Re-homed Tarantula

Just wanted to let you know I redid my Rosies enclosure
with 2 bricks of the coco fiber for substrate. She now has a half coconut home to hide in and hopefully she will burrow to her hearts content.
Knowing that Rosies do not like humidity I worked all day Friday on it and stayed up all night with cookie sheets and convection oven baking & spreading on my table with fans to cool & dry out the coco fiber at least I know its fairly sterile.
What a pain in the carpace.
"Honey whats for dinner? Substrate pies?"
I love my T's and want only the best for them, I hope this is acceptable.
thank you for all the suggestions wish she had this setup from the beginning if I wasn't such a noob I would have had it for her :?:8o

p.s.
The way the flash is in photo it makes substrate look moist however its all one color and feels dry.
The humidifier in background is for my MM A. Avic not my Rosie. Its a little easier for me to keep the humidity perfect for him.

Thanks again.

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

Just wanted to let you know I redid my Rosies enclosure
with 2 bricks of the coco fiber for substrate. She now has a half coconut home to hide in and hopefully she will burrow to her hearts content.
Knowing that Rosies do not like humidity I worked all day Friday on it and stayed up all night with cookie sheets and convection oven baking & spreading on my table with fans to cool & dry out the coco fiber at least I know its fairly sterile.
What a pain in the carpace.
"Honey whats for dinner? Substrate pies?"
I love my T's and want only the best for them, I hope this is acceptable.
thank you for all the suggestions wish she had this setup from the beginning if I wasn't such a noob I would have had it for her :?:8o

p.s.
The way the flash is in photo it makes substrate look moist however its all one color and feels dry.
The humidifier in background is for my MM A. Avic not my Rosie. Its a little easier for me to keep the humidity perfect for him.

Thanks again.

That looks great. Good job.

 

[SarahAntula]

That looks great. Good job.

Yeay! thank you!! :clap:

 

[curiousme]

It looks wonderful and I hope she burrows for you! It would be neat to see in that enclosure.

 

[SarahAntula]

It looks wonderful and I hope she burrows for you! It would be neat to see in that enclosure.

Thank you! :clap:
I'll post a pic when/if she burrows

I am not sure if she likes the substrate yet,
I did make her a substrate free landing out of a plastic electrical tape lid and glued that to the top of the coconut cave. I found her lounging on top of it this morning.
I am thinking she has decided thats her couch.
I'm half tempted to glue a TV and remote control in there.

 

[Falk]

Dollhouse tv perhaps No. keep it as natural as you can.

Example
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/2136026474_8ab91db716.jpg?v=0

 

[spidersnstuff]

G. Rosea are sort of my ground zero, I you feel that they need more than 4 inches of substrate, then thats you opinion and if you do so, the tarantula will be very happy, if you feel that the only species of tarantula that actually rejects burrowing should have extra substrate for burrowing, then thats your opinion and you will be very happy pretending that your G. rosea is burrowing. Not to bash anyone but G. rosea are a species that trully does not need accomadations to burrow, however i do suggest a hide, you could even take a peice of bark and balance it on some rocks and cover it mostly with dirt, the rosea will take resedence and move soil around so the opening at the front is small, but no actual "burrowing" will occur. In the wild they spend 85% ish percent of their lives in an abbandoned hole or undersomething at a 75 degree angle, so substrate underneath a pot hide so it can be at this angle is optimal for environment equilibrium. I honestly think that a G. Rosea is just fine with minimul substrate, excessive substrate just makes the cage look a little disporpotionate, and nor would a G. rosea need the usual accomadation of a burrow like a King baboon might, they need a burrow to increas humidity around them. a G. Rosea has no need for such accomdations and should be fine. You tarantula looks very healthy to me and it appears to be active, so I would say the Current setup is fine, but if you want to go and get a completely different cage because the current one is for an arboreal. If you have no arboreal, I see no point in going and getting a new environtment when you could just keep her in the one she has already established in.

Thanks for reading, G. rosea environment are already mentioned in other threads, as well as their behavior.

 

[Falk]

Well the G. rosea i had did alot of burrowing and the same with the ones my friend have. They stay out most in the open but they should be provided with deep enough substrate so they can burrow if they feel like it.

 

[spidersnstuff]

If you guys would like I could take some pictures and post them, of my G. rosea(s) the one with the cave is half the enclosure, the g. rosea loves moving around the kind of very fluffy moss substrate, its the same kind as tropical, but works fine dry as well, the T. will move it around a lot, and give a hide and a very few other items, she will shape her cage as she likes, then you can add aesthetics.

 

[spidersnstuff]

Maybe the concern is the confusion on the meaning of a burrow, the tarantula will start digging and adding layers of silk, it will usually burrow almost straight down atfirst, then more at an angle, it well then close off it burrow and finish constructing its burrow around the edges.