Hypothermya
Arachnopeon
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- May 22, 2007
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I moved into a new apartment this month. Obviously, I brought my precious B. Smithi with me. She's about three years old (maybe a little less), and I've had her since she was a hatchling (about the size of my pinky nail).
I decided to place her in the living room on a protected area of a large, deep bookcase. The living room gets more indirect light than my own room, and I was hoping that she'd like it better in a room with more light during the daytime; and figured that if she didn't like the light that she had plenty of hiding spots where she could avoid it.
She adjusted to the move a lot more quickly than the last time I moved her, and within the first week was being very active. (The last time I moved, she wouldn't eat for the first three weeks.) I was thinking that it was a good idea to put her there, since when she was in a darker room, she wasn't as active.
Then she began to exhibit some behavior that she had never engaged in before: I have always had a turntable, but have not had a safe, good place to play it during the time that I've owned my tarantula. During the first week at my place, I set it up on the same book case along with some speakers and played some music. My spider lifted her front legs up and began to move them up and down.
The next weekend, my roommate got her grandstand piano into the living room and began to play it (she composes modern piano music, so whenever she's not working she does this). She mentioned to me that whenever she would play the piano that my spider would emerge from her rock or from the back half of the terrarium she's in and move to the front of it. She would mostly lift up her front legs and move them -- "As if she were dancing," my roommate said -- but sometimes she would simply rest her front legs against the glass.
Does anyone know whether or not having my spider so close to loud noise is healthy at all? She seems to be responding by moving closer rather than farther away, and she seems very engaged in the noise... Should I keep her near it or move her to another room, further from the piano?
Does anyone know what spiders are sensing when they're exposed to noise/vibration? What sort of scenarios in the wild would be similar to this?
Has anyone else had their tarantulas respond or even "dance" to music?
I decided to place her in the living room on a protected area of a large, deep bookcase. The living room gets more indirect light than my own room, and I was hoping that she'd like it better in a room with more light during the daytime; and figured that if she didn't like the light that she had plenty of hiding spots where she could avoid it.
She adjusted to the move a lot more quickly than the last time I moved her, and within the first week was being very active. (The last time I moved, she wouldn't eat for the first three weeks.) I was thinking that it was a good idea to put her there, since when she was in a darker room, she wasn't as active.
Then she began to exhibit some behavior that she had never engaged in before: I have always had a turntable, but have not had a safe, good place to play it during the time that I've owned my tarantula. During the first week at my place, I set it up on the same book case along with some speakers and played some music. My spider lifted her front legs up and began to move them up and down.
The next weekend, my roommate got her grandstand piano into the living room and began to play it (she composes modern piano music, so whenever she's not working she does this). She mentioned to me that whenever she would play the piano that my spider would emerge from her rock or from the back half of the terrarium she's in and move to the front of it. She would mostly lift up her front legs and move them -- "As if she were dancing," my roommate said -- but sometimes she would simply rest her front legs against the glass.
Does anyone know whether or not having my spider so close to loud noise is healthy at all? She seems to be responding by moving closer rather than farther away, and she seems very engaged in the noise... Should I keep her near it or move her to another room, further from the piano?
Does anyone know what spiders are sensing when they're exposed to noise/vibration? What sort of scenarios in the wild would be similar to this?
Has anyone else had their tarantulas respond or even "dance" to music?