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Hi guys.
I have put a kind of joy into hand feed my Avics..
Not with the hands of course, but making a succesful feeding with forceps and giving the food to them when they are s/lings as they have a little harder time to "see" the food.
Example,,today, my A.Avic. 3/4', has made a real fun web by the way,,I have this piece of wood up against the corner and she has webbed a tube behind the wood and then she added another tube on top of that tube up into the ceiling.
I released a cricket on top of the tube and the cricket ran down and my A.Avic she really got scared and she just ran straight down.
The cricket was going up and down and up and down and afterwhile my s'ling turned around went back up the tube slowly, and the cricket ran straight into, yes guess what, one hungry A.Avic, that has molted once, recently.
My 3/4 Versicolor is so "lazy" now that s/he has one posture: Sitting with front legs up through upper portion of webtube waiting for my forcep.
Yesterday I held a cricket towards the opening of the tube and before I even saw what happend I was standing there with a forcep holding a cricket leg and rest of cricket gone.
Today,, s/he went for the cricket the same way again even before I released it and tried to grab it and I didn't release in time and s/he was there next second again and cricket was gone.
This handfeeding is really fun.
Maybe I should start making dining menues for them
Kenny
I have put a kind of joy into hand feed my Avics..
Not with the hands of course, but making a succesful feeding with forceps and giving the food to them when they are s/lings as they have a little harder time to "see" the food.
Example,,today, my A.Avic. 3/4', has made a real fun web by the way,,I have this piece of wood up against the corner and she has webbed a tube behind the wood and then she added another tube on top of that tube up into the ceiling.
I released a cricket on top of the tube and the cricket ran down and my A.Avic she really got scared and she just ran straight down.
The cricket was going up and down and up and down and afterwhile my s'ling turned around went back up the tube slowly, and the cricket ran straight into, yes guess what, one hungry A.Avic, that has molted once, recently.
My 3/4 Versicolor is so "lazy" now that s/he has one posture: Sitting with front legs up through upper portion of webtube waiting for my forcep.
Yesterday I held a cricket towards the opening of the tube and before I even saw what happend I was standing there with a forcep holding a cricket leg and rest of cricket gone.
Today,, s/he went for the cricket the same way again even before I released it and tried to grab it and I didn't release in time and s/he was there next second again and cricket was gone.
This handfeeding is really fun.
Maybe I should start making dining menues for them
Kenny