CarrotsBiteBack
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2021
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Hello everyone,
Sorry if this has been posted else where before but I could not see anything at a quick glance about it.
Also, before I start my topic I am not here to be made to feel stupid or a useless keeper or to make anyone else feel like that I am simply enquiring into something I have an interest in.
So onto the topic. I have seen a photo of someone who added a bright red and yellow plastic spider into their B. emilia's enclosure and was enquiring on what others thought of the T. sitting over it for hours. The plastic spider appeared to be a similar size to the actual tarantula. Obviously there were some genuine suggestions amoung the vast amount of expected comments for such an area of the web - excuse the pun. So I was wondering on what other keepers thoughts are to adding such things to T. enclosures, from a more reliable source. I personally am not a fan of the idea of plastic spider ornaments being placed in enclousers, that is not to say that it is wrong to do such a thing.
Leading off from that there were a few comments about adding ping pong balls into enclosures to stimulate T's. People seemed to be mainly adding them into A. seemani enclosures as they bulldoze anyway. My two certainly love to renovate their own renovations and flip the water bowls on a regular basis. Even my P. victorii loves throwing dirt around as high as possible and sit over it like they own it.
What are your thoughts and opinions on adding various none natural (as in plants and other general nature decoration) stimulus into enclousers? Do T's get bored and need the stimulation? I appreciate that there is not enough research being conducted on tarantulas and tarantula behaviour so we rely, as with now, on other keepers experiences.
Thanks everyone and have an awesome day!
Sorry if this has been posted else where before but I could not see anything at a quick glance about it.
Also, before I start my topic I am not here to be made to feel stupid or a useless keeper or to make anyone else feel like that I am simply enquiring into something I have an interest in.
So onto the topic. I have seen a photo of someone who added a bright red and yellow plastic spider into their B. emilia's enclosure and was enquiring on what others thought of the T. sitting over it for hours. The plastic spider appeared to be a similar size to the actual tarantula. Obviously there were some genuine suggestions amoung the vast amount of expected comments for such an area of the web - excuse the pun. So I was wondering on what other keepers thoughts are to adding such things to T. enclosures, from a more reliable source. I personally am not a fan of the idea of plastic spider ornaments being placed in enclousers, that is not to say that it is wrong to do such a thing.
Leading off from that there were a few comments about adding ping pong balls into enclosures to stimulate T's. People seemed to be mainly adding them into A. seemani enclosures as they bulldoze anyway. My two certainly love to renovate their own renovations and flip the water bowls on a regular basis. Even my P. victorii loves throwing dirt around as high as possible and sit over it like they own it.
What are your thoughts and opinions on adding various none natural (as in plants and other general nature decoration) stimulus into enclousers? Do T's get bored and need the stimulation? I appreciate that there is not enough research being conducted on tarantulas and tarantula behaviour so we rely, as with now, on other keepers experiences.
Thanks everyone and have an awesome day!