Watching a Pinktoe carry around a severed cricket head is really, really creepy.

[jebbewocky]

It's one thing to see them devour a cricket.
It's quite another to see them just carry around a severed head, like some sort of barbarian trophy.

Weiiiiirrrd.

 

[Teal]

Pictures or it never happened! lol

 

[WelshTan]

It's one thing to see them devour a cricket.
It's quite another to see them just carry around a severed head, like some sort of barbarian trophy.

Weiiiiirrrd.

That's the fun part of being a T keeper

 

[sharpfang]

I've seen it...

I have also seen a Turkish Roach kill and clean the plate on freshly molted A.Amazonica 1"........Almost...1":evil:

 

[Steve Calceatum]

I love the primal nature of T's.

The first time I saw my rosie eat (after already having her for 4 months by that point ), she went ape on the cricket, and whomped it pretty hard. She then seemingly (I will never know why my G. rosea does what she does) "paraded" her kill to the remaining crickets, let that one die, and then snatched up the remaining 3 in rapid succession.

To top it off, she even did a "Victory-Dance."


Now, I've not seen anything like that again, although the war-dances are frequent, and just as amusing each time. However, the brutality that T's employ to catch their prey, and the bizarre behaviors afterwords are truly fascinating, and somewhat unique to each individual. Perhaps that's why feeding videos are so popular.....despite all of us having our own collections to feed!!!

 

[micheldied]

its just as freaky to see an OBTs fang go right through the cricket in several places.

 

[Mack&Cass]

Okay, the story isn't about a tarantula but it's just as creepy.

We had a Dolomedes tenebrosus (fishing spider) and this thing was honestly crazier than any T we've ever had. One day I threw in a cricket for him, and I watched because seeing him eat was pretty cool. This is what I observed:

He stalked the cricket to the end of his corkbark (his enclosure was half water half cocofibre, with a piece of corkbark jutting out over the water), grabbed it, ripped it into pieces and threw its body parts into the water. He didn't even eat the cricket! He just ripped it apart and disposed of it. Then he had the nerve to eat Sally, the pregnant guppy we had in the water part. He was all sorts of crazy.

-Cass

 

[Teal]

Then he had the nerve to eat Sally, the pregnant guppy we had in the water part. He was all sorts of crazy.

-Cass

:clap: Excellent story telling!

Sorry about Sally

lol

 

[Mack&Cass]

:clap: Excellent story telling!

Sorry about Sally

lol

I was not impressed to say the least. And she was pregnant! I mean, what a meanie. And thanks, I enjoy telling stories to people that actually understand and who don't just smile and nod because they don't care, haha.

-Cass

 

[x Mr Awesome x]

This is great. I want more horrific stories like these!!!

 

[ZergFront]

Haven't seen my tarantulas do anything more horrific then eating 1/2 a waxworm.

I did see a badumna house spider do something I haven't seen spiders do. I dropped maybe 5 pinhead crickets in her container and she killed one, dropped it, went for another and killed it, dropped it and so forth until all were dead. Then she picked one up and started feeding. I think she fed on all of them over time. My tarantula slings just catch as many pinheads as they can and make one mixed up food bolus.

 

[Dark241993]

my B. Boehmei had 3 crickets in her mouth at once...quite..odd

 

[Steve Calceatum]

my B. Boehmei had 3 crickets in her mouth at once...quite..odd

How big was she?

 

[Obelisk]

Okay, the story isn't about a tarantula but it's just as creepy.

We had a Dolomedes tenebrosus (fishing spider) and this thing was honestly crazier than any T we've ever had. One day I threw in a cricket for him, and I watched because seeing him eat was pretty cool. This is what I observed:

He stalked the cricket to the end of his corkbark (his enclosure was half water half cocofibre, with a piece of corkbark jutting out over the water), grabbed it, ripped it into pieces and threw its body parts into the water. He didn't even eat the cricket! He just ripped it apart and disposed of it. Then he had the nerve to eat Sally, the pregnant guppy we had in the water part. He was all sorts of crazy.

-Cass

Maybe the spider just wanted to stuff the guppy before consuming it. What intelligent creatures they are :razz:

 

[Mack&Cass]

Maybe the spider just wanted to stuff the guppy before consuming it. What intelligent creatures they are :razz:

But she was already stuffed with babies, that would be awfully greedy of him, haha. Spiders that can see really well like that creep me out, the show this whole new level of craziness.

-Cass

 

[Dark241993]

How big was she?

a bit over 4in...through 3 of them in there, killed them one at a time then carried them all around...they werent that big though. tried to wrap one up in a web then decided she didnt want to...shes an odd one

 

[Steve Calceatum]

a bit over 4in...through 3 of them in there, killed them one at a time then carried them all around...they werent that big though. tried to wrap one up in a web then decided she didnt want to...shes an odd one

Ah....Actually, that's not unusual for a T that size. The first time I fed my 3.5" P. cambridgei, I gave him 2 huge crix. He took them both without issue. Wish I had my camera then, because he was on the side of the enclosure doing his "happy-dance" with two crix twitching in his maw.

 

[Teal]

When my G. rosea used to eat (lol) she would stuff half a dozen damn crix under her mouth into a ball so huge she couldn't even walk around with it LOL

I watched Rise (P. chordatus) pin down part of a mealworm with her feet when it wouldn't stop flailing and wrapping up over her head.. that was interesting to see, for some reason... lol

 

[drdoody]

My rosie enjoys collecting up the crickets into a huge ball of former cricket and then eating them under a stick in her enclosure. She's not especially violent or brutal. She just walks around finding and killing crickets, then hauls them off under her stick for a nice picnic. She's quite ladylike, actually. She hates me with a passion, though.

The little aphonopelma male I was given, though... natural born lunatic. He'll sit in the middle of two or three crickets and do absolutely nothing. He just stands there. Like he's having a conversation with them. And then he figures out that they're food. After that, it's a blur of long black legs and panicked crickets. Just when they thought they'd found a cool spider, BLAM!

 

[killy]

I'm quoting myself from another thread but it's apropos ...

... for a gruesome thrill, try feeding a cricket and a mealworm at the same time. I did that with my vagans once, and it was like the remake of "the Body Snatchers" where the pod took over the dog and the homeless guy at the same time, only this was a big mish-mash of worm/cricket in the jaws of a T.