Gramastola rosea and feeding

[Carolyne]

Hi, I have a Gramastola rosea and I have been looking over quite a lot of caresheets and I'm a little confused. Different caresheets vary so much on feeding. Some say every other day then others say once a week. How often and how much am I supposed to feed her?
Any help will be appreciated.

 

[cacoseraph]

i feed my adult female the equiv. of ~1.5 adult/large crickets a month. on average. i actually feed her one adult lobster roach (N. cinerea).

i feed her a little more during the summer and quite a bit less during the winter. the warmer you keep your spider the more you have to feed it, and vice versa.

G. rosea are on the slower growing, slower metabolism side for tarantula, and thus at the same size and temperature will need to eat less than most of the other species.

 

[fartkowski]

Hi
Usually the caresheets on the internet are not too good.
I feed all my tarantulas every 5 days, so about once a week.
Rosies are known to go thru spells of not eating. Mine went about 6 months without wanting anything, then ate for a couple of weeks, and now is going on about 2 months of no eating.
I would offer it food about once a week. Don't worry if it goes thru long hunger strikes
hope this helps

chris

 

[ChainsawMonkey]

That's perfectly normal for a G. rosea. Sometimes they're hungry and they'll kill and eat anything and everything in the cage, while other times they just don't want anything.They're just weird about feeding sometimes... Mine's going through one of those spells right now. No worries though.

 

[Mina]

I have 8 G. roseas. All but 2 are adults. I generally feed 1 to 2 crickets a week, depending on how much they are eating.
My mature male gets 2 crickets that usually last him 2 weeks. The youngest of my females gets 2 to 3 crickets a week, which is what she normally eats, the older ladies get between one and two, and my unsexed red phase is a bigger eater, usually 2 to 3 a week.
Start with 1 a week, it the T snatches the cricket, you can give 2. I've been told that for an adult G. rosea, 2 crickets a week is more than enough. My 2 that occasionally eat 3 a week are just between being an adult and a juvie and probably have one more moult before reaching adult size.

 

[Stan Schultz]

Hi, I have a Gramastola rosea and I have been looking over quite a lot of caresheets and I'm a little confused. Different caresheets vary so much on feeding. Some say every other day then others say once a week. How often and how much am I supposed to feed her?
Any help will be appreciated.

Visit www.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/roses.html for one I'm particularly fond of. (Probably because I wrote it! So, there's more than just a little self interest here. ) At the risk of patting myself too hard on the back, it's been recommended by many as one of the more reasonable, believable ones.

Other than what's on that webpage, care for them like your standard desert species tarantula.

Hope this helps.

 

[Aragorn]

This species seems to have a very slow metabolism. Whenever I aquired a new G. rosea, it always started out eating quite a bit, but never more than one crickets at each feeding, and then later slow down dramatically to stop eating for considerable amount of time. I've own A. avicularias, A. seemanis, and B. smithis and none would fast as long as the my G. roseas. You can try feeding it two crickets a week if you like. I say that's plenty for any T's.