oh long has your tarantula lived with out food?

[ronald might]

my tarantula a b.smithi is going for a week with out food..some say they go for months!..

how bout yours?

 

[Alakdan]

I had a male H. gigas who refused to eat for 3 months. After that, he ate one small cricket.

 

[cgwpurple]

I have a Vietnamese Birdeating Tarantula I purchased in March still waiting for it to eat, it does like to kill crickets and put them in the water bowl for me.

 

[worm's girl]

my e. murinus is at about 3+ weeks, we think shes pre-molt. didnt even drink water the whole time until just last night

 

[fartkowski]

my rosie has gone about 6 months without wanting food.
Then she ate for 3 weeks or so, and right back to fasting.
There are T's that have gone way longer without eating, it pretty amazing

 

[ctsoth]

I don't even feed my Ts weekly! Longest I'd say is 3-4 months out of one of my Ts.

 

[Lucara]

Right now it would have to be my T. blondi who I think is in premolt. Hes gone without food for 3 weeks now.

 

[GailC]

I had a rosea go for over 4 months.

 

[dtknow]

Local Aphonopelma. Went for about 7 months before finally eating(September to April). But then boy...she had an appetite.

 

[DrGigglez666]

I have a Vietnamese Birdeating Tarantula I purchased in March still waiting for it to eat, it does like to kill crickets and put them in the water bowl for me.

Haha thats funny i bet you get so mad!!

 

[Talkenlate04]

my tarantula a b.smithi is going for a week with out food..some say they go for months!..

how bout yours?

I think my record is a Smithi that refused all food and only drank water for 15 around 15 months.

 

[Katronmaster]

I had a premolt G. Rosea who went about six months without food.

 

[kimski]

Well, I don't feel so bad now. My P. irminia has gone about 4 months now. She just molted on August 6th and is back in her bamboo tube. I know patience but I wanna see her!

 

[Grimlock]

b. smithi. I feed him about once a month. But, he doesn't always eat. I think 3 months is the longest I've gone.

I can't tell you how many crix dry up because he doesn't touch them. Like right now, I have 12 in a crix holder, and he hasn't looked at the two that are in his habitat. I think I'm going to be setting 10 more free. :\

Stubborn creatures they are.

 

[Drachenjager]

I have a Vietnamese Birdeating Tarantula I purchased in March still waiting for it to eat, it does like to kill crickets and put them in the water bowl for me.

a what?
I not speaking common pseudo-names

 

[Mister Internet]

G. rosea ... I think the last time it ate anything was last Christmas... approximately 10 months I guess.

 

[Drachenjager]

i fed my G. rosea last in june

 

[jen650s]

I had a G. rosea go 23 months prior to his ultimate molt without touching anything offered. He would flip the water bowl and go back in his hide (I finally got a waterbowl too heavy for him to flip and he filled it with peat instead ), at the end of 23 months he ate everything offered for about 2 weeks, stopped eating again, molted into a MM and never ate again for the remaining 18 months of his life. For the 5 years prior to that he ate every 2 weeks like clockwork-even pre-molt:? .

 

[omni]

My campestratus went 18 weeks(4 1/2 mos.) during her last premolt when she sealed herself up in her hide. I have a 4" A. seemanni in premolt now that's refused food since mid-June, only drinking water.

 

[pinkzebra]

I have an old Aphonopelma iodius F that hasn't eaten in about 7 months. Maybe a bit more, I would have to look it up. She'll kill the pray, just not eat it.

Jen