Funny behavior

[mrbonzai211]

Sorry for posting about this but I just think it's way too funny and I have to share....... I noticed it about three weeks ago when I bought her, but my G. rosea has an extremely interesting eating habit. The first thing she did when I put her in her new KK, even before digging her borrow under her hide, she dug several holes all over the enclosure (5 in all i believe). Well, i didn't understand why she was digging these holes until two days after she started she filled all in but one and ever since she has been using it as a trash can for leftover food. She'll grab a cricket, pull it into her hide, suck on it for a couple hours, then walk out of her hide and place the leftover ball of cricket parts neatly in her little trash corner.
My rosea is a blessing on 8 legs. She (actually it's unsexed... i think one or two molts till adulthood) is active at least once every day, she is the most docile T i have ever seen, and she's about the quirkiest animal I've ever own. There's so much personality in her and I can't wait to breed her because roseas like this are so rare I just have to pass on the jeans so other people can enjoy this amazing T!

 

[midnight_maiden]

Good Housekeeping!

Well I guess it's good and bad. Good that you have a clean-friendly T. The bad is that it will make it harder to clean the carcasses from the tank.
But yes amusing it is.

 

[Mina]

Rosies are all full of personality. I have 6 and they are all different. My biggest female alwys puts her bottom right up against the glass every time she has to poop, just so we can make a mess on the glass for Mom to clean. I think she enjoys it.

 

[mikeymo]

my rosie always poops in the same place (off in the far left hand corner of the tank) her butt is always facing me also as if to say: "hey mike, i'm pooping, i know you can see me pooping so you better start cleaning soon" CRAZY rosies

 

[fartkowski]

yup
good old rosies, mine stashes her cricket remains anywhere and everywhere
it's like an easter egg hunt everytime

 

[jr47]

i had one years back that had a ritual everytime i was in the tank. at first i didnt see any humor in it and would always use tongs. but after a while it became quite funny. she would run across the tank and bunt whatever was there,then she would take a few steps back and start hopping in a circle around your hand then repeat the head bunt. after 3 or 4 times she would retreat. me and my kids got a few good laugh,s out of it. the one adult i have now has no sense of humor at all. she comes at you fangs out and ready for a fight.

 

[green_bottle_04]

you guys are lucky! my rosie is the devil incarnate!!!! her only quirk is that she is mean as ... well you know. she will throw up a threat display at the slightest disturbance and venom will literally drip from her fangs!!! i think she was a p. murinus in a previous life. its helarious because my p. murinus acts like a rosie should. just as calm as can be!

 

[mrbonzai211]

wow i can't believe that a rosea would be like that! I guess if yours was a P. marinus in a past life, mine must have been a puppy.