First off, sorry, no pictures at this time. My batteries have failed me.
Anyway, I got two new Ts yesterday. One is a female RCF G. rosea (about 5") and the other is a male G. aureostriatum (about 4"). The aureo was in pre-molt and the seller said he'd molt any day now. It turns out that "any day" was that day!
I put him in a small KK for the timebeing, until I could get an appropriate tank for him this weekend. I noticed that he was laying pretty low, probably trying to drink from the substrate, so I gave him a bottle cap full of water and he took a good drink from it a while later. Before I went to bed, I looked up at the shelf where he was and I saw that he was pressed up against the side of the tank. Three hours later, he's still up there in the same position. I went to sleep and looked up at him again when I woke up and his exuvium was in the same position as the night before, but he was just chillin' upright, right next to it. I had seen Ts molt upright, but on their side... that was something else.
While the little guy stole the show, I was also pretty excited about my new rosie. I already had a regular rosie (which will be mentioned again), but the red phase rosies are just gorgeous (not to take anything away from the regular ones). I gently nudged her out of her deli cup and into a small KK (again, just a temporary home), but she had other plans. She started climbing up and out of the KK, so I let her climb onto my hand. She crawled around on it, then onto the other, then up and down my arms a bit... such a sweetie! After a while, she found a seemingly comfortable spot on my hand and just sat there for about 20 minutes. I put her back in her KK and when I tried getting her out again later that evening, she was sort of snappy, so I left her alone.
My other rosie, my gateway into the T addiction, laid eggs on 7/2. http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=128547
I was pretty excited about her potential offspring, but also didn't really want to have to deal with so many more Ts, considering my bookshelf is already overflowing. I was planning on pulling and opening the sac on 8/2, but my rosie had other plans. I don't know if it was the earthquake we had the other day, or if it was because of her new neighbors disturbing her, but I remember looking up at her before I left the house in the afternoon and she was rotating the sac. When I got back home, I didn't see her clutching the sac, so I thought maybe she rolled it down into her crater, but that wasn't the case. SHE ATE IT! Well, most of it. There were still a few strands of webbing that may or may not contain eggs, but I did see two eggs with legs lying next to where she was. I managed to pull them and what was left of the sac and put them into a small condiment cup. I didn't have time to do anything else since it was so late when I discovered it, so I'll see later today if there's any hope for these little guys.
Thanks for reading!
Anyway, I got two new Ts yesterday. One is a female RCF G. rosea (about 5") and the other is a male G. aureostriatum (about 4"). The aureo was in pre-molt and the seller said he'd molt any day now. It turns out that "any day" was that day!
I put him in a small KK for the timebeing, until I could get an appropriate tank for him this weekend. I noticed that he was laying pretty low, probably trying to drink from the substrate, so I gave him a bottle cap full of water and he took a good drink from it a while later. Before I went to bed, I looked up at the shelf where he was and I saw that he was pressed up against the side of the tank. Three hours later, he's still up there in the same position. I went to sleep and looked up at him again when I woke up and his exuvium was in the same position as the night before, but he was just chillin' upright, right next to it. I had seen Ts molt upright, but on their side... that was something else.
While the little guy stole the show, I was also pretty excited about my new rosie. I already had a regular rosie (which will be mentioned again), but the red phase rosies are just gorgeous (not to take anything away from the regular ones). I gently nudged her out of her deli cup and into a small KK (again, just a temporary home), but she had other plans. She started climbing up and out of the KK, so I let her climb onto my hand. She crawled around on it, then onto the other, then up and down my arms a bit... such a sweetie! After a while, she found a seemingly comfortable spot on my hand and just sat there for about 20 minutes. I put her back in her KK and when I tried getting her out again later that evening, she was sort of snappy, so I left her alone.
My other rosie, my gateway into the T addiction, laid eggs on 7/2. http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=128547
I was pretty excited about her potential offspring, but also didn't really want to have to deal with so many more Ts, considering my bookshelf is already overflowing. I was planning on pulling and opening the sac on 8/2, but my rosie had other plans. I don't know if it was the earthquake we had the other day, or if it was because of her new neighbors disturbing her, but I remember looking up at her before I left the house in the afternoon and she was rotating the sac. When I got back home, I didn't see her clutching the sac, so I thought maybe she rolled it down into her crater, but that wasn't the case. SHE ATE IT! Well, most of it. There were still a few strands of webbing that may or may not contain eggs, but I did see two eggs with legs lying next to where she was. I managed to pull them and what was left of the sac and put them into a small condiment cup. I didn't have time to do anything else since it was so late when I discovered it, so I'll see later today if there's any hope for these little guys.
Thanks for reading!
