T. Blondi Meets unlucky Anole !

[surena]

hey buddy what's up ?

ohhhhhh yammmm

What do you guys feed your Goliath ? Mine won't even look at a cricket !

 

[aaronrefalo]

till now crickets meal worms fuzzies....but shes still younge.....when she will be that sizec i will surly give her that sized prey...

Aaron

 

[Bry]

Dang, that is wild. You can see the lizard's face peeking out in the 2nd pic between the blondi's legs. *shudders* Better him than me.

 

[surena]

Has anyone try feeding superworm to any of your Tarantulas ?

 

[Bry]

I have. I had problems with the supers just digging in the substrate before the T can get to it. So I either offer them on tweezers or right in front of the T so they can grab it immediately. If they do burrow, they tend to resurface at night and get eaten then.

 

[Crunchie]

Has anyone try feeding superworm to any of your Tarantulas ?

I have and I won't do it again as they scare me when they are thrashing around and trying to clamp their jaws onto whatever is attacking them. There was a thread recently about a juvenile G.pulchra that had its palp bitten by one of these buggers. Don't get me wrong I dont think a big tarantula would have any trouble and I've watched my big female B.vagans simply crunch them up and they hardly had a chance to bite.

 

[jbrd]

never given my T.blondi a superworm yet but i have given him an anole .

 

[GoTerps]

There was a thread recently about a juvenile G.pulchra that had its palp bitten by one of these buggers.

Highly questionable thread IMO, I think the keeper was mistaken.

 

[nightbreed]

Waste of a cute anole

Nice blondi though

 

[Sean]

I cant wait till my blondi gets that size.

 

[Stracs-arachs]

blondi eats everything!

My blondi has been eating small frogs....she loves them. I will have to try the anole with her as well. Though everything I put in there is gone within seconds!

 

[Arachnoking]

Nice spider but i think its totaly unnecersary to feed that anole to the spider. Just my view but i dont agree with it. Yes they OCCASIONALY eat vertebrates in the wild but this is not in the wild.

 

[Crunchie]

Highly questionable thread IMO, I think the keeper was mistaken.

I don't ;P

 

[Orange_Demon]

i was abit shoked to see you feeding a lizard to a T. Being in england we dont have any wild lizards so it seems wiered that one mans pet food is an other mans pet. nice pics though

 

[xgrafcorex]

lizards

well everywhere i've read mentions its ok for an occasional lizard as long as it is smaller than the spider. same with pinkie mice

 

[Python]

I don't see anything wrong with feeding a lizard to a T. We try to recreate their environment as faithfully as possible and then restrict their diets? I think if the environment is to be complete, the prey items should also be included. Why do people mist cages when they obviously do fine without it? Why do some people provide lighting for a T that burrows and only comes out at night? Why put fake vines and plants in a terrestrials cage when it doesn't really need them? IMO feeding prey items other than crix is just as natural to the T as anything else we do for them.

 

[nightbreed]

I don't see anything wrong with feeding a lizard to a T. We try to recreate their environment as faithfully as possible and then restrict their diets? I think if the environment is to be complete, the prey items should also be included. Why do people mist cages when they obviously do fine without it? Why do some people provide lighting for a T that burrows and only comes out at night? Why put fake vines and plants in a terrestrials cage when it doesn't really need them? IMO feeding prey items other than crix is just as natural to the T as anything else we do for them.

Some people provide lights, and put in vines and plants because it makes the enclosures look better, its for their own benefit not the T's.
Just like a lot of the live vert feeding that goes on is done for the keepers entertainment, the T doesn't need it.

I

 

[Nivek]

I'm not the most knowledgable person about tarantulas, but isn't it possible that a varied diet is as beneficial to them as it is to other animals? Anoles, for instance, would have more nutrients than a cricket. Just my quick though, lol.

 

[nightbreed]

I'm not against a varied diet its just live feeding I have issues with.

I dont bother moaning about live feeding anymore people are going to do it no matter what, I just really hate it when people try and justify it as being "more natural" ohhh that pisses me off :evil:

 

[Huk7]

i was abit shoked to see you feeding a lizard to a T. Being in england we dont have any wild lizards so it seems wiered that one mans pet food is an other mans pet. nice pics though

Just a little point, but not being sarcastic. What about the wild common lizards and sand lizards we have? I can see what you are saying though.

Anyway in the UK we would have two problems both legal.

1) - The species of wild lizards we have are protected

2) - It is illegal to feed live vertebrates to other animals (I always thought that this was a myth, but found out a few weeks ago that it is true)