Yes of course, did you think I was making it up as I went along, mines don't smell I keep their home "clean". Regularly cleaning (weekly) makes a huge difference.Do you actually keep dubia?In a short time you have inches of frass...let it go and it adds up quick....regardless of where theyre from, theyre still eating and pooping machines.
I don't get that smell either, I'm not a smoker @cold blood and I keep the enclosure well cleaned.
I don't find the roach smell pleasant, but it's definitely not as bad as cricket stench. If I had a container with the same number of crickets (as the dubia container), it would reek.
Most of my T's have placed boluses (eaten food) in a certain area and keep placing it in the same place, I would remove the water dish, give it a clean, replace it, but in a different area, the spider will use the same place to put it's finished meals. Their really good at keeping their enclosures as clean as possible, with regard to boluses etc.
Don't worry about that, they really don't save till later, when they've finished they've finished. Bin it.
They don't become large like Theraphosa species, but still a decent size, and usually they have the personality to go with their bulk
These guys are forever doing this, little bulldozers, it's really cool the way they excavate and build burrows, hides, etc.He's digging dirt out with his mouth! How cool. I got a video. It's a bit long, as he's camera shy, but check this out
Nice to see you are so enamoured of himHe's digging dirt out with his mouth! How cool. I got a video. It's a bit long, as he's camera shy, but check this out
So you're back, how was your trip, uneventful hopefully in the best meaning?
He molted the day or day after we got back
Now this guys is about to molt.
You'll soon get the feel for the humidity, just by sight you can see how light/dark the substrate is, I would be careful with the C. versicolour, add some water to the corner of the enclosure, not too much and not too little, I know that sounds very cryptic, you end up just getting the right balance, so your B. smithi molted yes, and now your LP is about to molt, it's a busy time of year for molts my friend.He molted the day or day after we got back
So between this, and leading my C. versicolor to the water dish by making it rain and leading with a water trail, I'm wondering if I need to do a much better/deeper substrate soaking when I do them. I have been overflowing dish every so often a little, now I wonder if that little, should be a lot.
At that size it is a subadult, the 10" leg span that is regularly touted is exaggerated most are 7-8", you might get the odd one that's bigger.
At that size I fed my L. parahybana and L. difficilis 3 crickets every fortnight when I used crickets, they currently get one superworm or adult dubia every fortnight.
They're not the calmest, my L. parahybana is extremely skittish and kicks hairs for fun, my L. difficilis is more defensive and tends to throw up threat postures.
A 10 gallon is more than big enough for a fully grown LP, I have an adult female A. geniculata in a 6.5 gallon tank and she has tons of space.
Extra large/adults.
They've probably probably been used to the smell long enough to have forgotten about it, I smoke and I still noticed the smell from my red runners, it's not nearly as bad as the smell you get when you don't clean your cricket bins but it still hums.