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On a salamander! There are no cricket-dealing pet-stores in my college town, so I went on a field trip to the college nature trail, which has several hillside creeks running into a largish stream. Cool, I thought..I'll get some aquatic insects for the T's. Nope--didn't find any. What I DID find, was plenty of salamanders! So I think.....hey, why not-- I have a hungry 7-inch Nhandu, and she's eaten mice before, I'll give the salamanders a try. If they don't work, I'll return them to the woods. My E. campestratus has NEVER accepted any form of vertebrate prey, so for her I catch a small swarm of black-legged katydids (Orchelimum nigripes). Does she eat them? NOPE. The Nhandu does...and ignores the salamander. Ugh. So, I plop one of the slimy fellows into the PZB tank. Why not.
She goes for it! She detected its presence, and stalked it aggressively until it backtracked toward her...and BAM!! She seriously wanted it, and I was seriously shocked. Her first vertebrate feed ever. She doesn't even eat in front of me usually--when I give her crickets, they disappear in the night and I never get to see her feed. This time --and maybe it's because she's fresh from a molt, and thin--she mauls the biggest thing she's ever eaten, right in front of me. I'm so happy!
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/gallery/showimage.php?i=18058
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/gallery/showimage.php?i=18057
She goes for it! She detected its presence, and stalked it aggressively until it backtracked toward her...and BAM!! She seriously wanted it, and I was seriously shocked. Her first vertebrate feed ever. She doesn't even eat in front of me usually--when I give her crickets, they disappear in the night and I never get to see her feed. This time --and maybe it's because she's fresh from a molt, and thin--she mauls the biggest thing she's ever eaten, right in front of me. I'm so happy!
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/gallery/showimage.php?i=18058
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/gallery/showimage.php?i=18057
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