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Hi Everyone!!
My first post here, in fact, I just got my 1st tarantula. Unless you count co-caring for my boyfriend's rosehair, Mr. Jingles.
Anyway, I'm a proud owner of a Usambara Orange Baboon. I know, a bad choice for a beginner, but I did my homework, and I know they have a defensive temperment. I don't really like to handle T's anyway, they are too fragile.
The sucess is I figured out how to get the little guy to like burrowing instead of being aboreal! It was driving me nuts to have his silken home at the top of the enclosure where he could escape anytime I lifted the lid a tad. I had placed a toliet paper tube down in the substrate (Lizard Litter, should I switch or add anything else?) but he kept on ignoring it. Then I noticed everytime I gently blew him down to the bottem he would circle the perimeter of the tank instead of wandering around in the middle, where the tube was. So I placed it in the corner. What do ya know? The first time around he crawled right in and started webbing the tube!! Hee hee......
I placed the tube flush with the glass so I could see inside, but I figure he'll web the glass up for privacy soon.
Can you tell the sex of a Usambara by abdomen size? In the pics I've seen of them mating the female has the larger abdomen. Anyway, can ya tell I'm a proud new mom?
I've kept chameleon, an African land crab, various snakes and savannah monitors, and I always have liked the display animals the best. Especially the Cham, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try a display-only T.
BTW the lizard litter is about four inches deep, so he had enough depth to burrow.
Great Forum!!
My first post here, in fact, I just got my 1st tarantula. Unless you count co-caring for my boyfriend's rosehair, Mr. Jingles.
Anyway, I'm a proud owner of a Usambara Orange Baboon. I know, a bad choice for a beginner, but I did my homework, and I know they have a defensive temperment. I don't really like to handle T's anyway, they are too fragile.
The sucess is I figured out how to get the little guy to like burrowing instead of being aboreal! It was driving me nuts to have his silken home at the top of the enclosure where he could escape anytime I lifted the lid a tad. I had placed a toliet paper tube down in the substrate (Lizard Litter, should I switch or add anything else?) but he kept on ignoring it. Then I noticed everytime I gently blew him down to the bottem he would circle the perimeter of the tank instead of wandering around in the middle, where the tube was. So I placed it in the corner. What do ya know? The first time around he crawled right in and started webbing the tube!! Hee hee......
I placed the tube flush with the glass so I could see inside, but I figure he'll web the glass up for privacy soon.
Can you tell the sex of a Usambara by abdomen size? In the pics I've seen of them mating the female has the larger abdomen. Anyway, can ya tell I'm a proud new mom?
I've kept chameleon, an African land crab, various snakes and savannah monitors, and I always have liked the display animals the best. Especially the Cham, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try a display-only T.
BTW the lizard litter is about four inches deep, so he had enough depth to burrow.
Great Forum!!
