Ned gets his first gerbil

[marisa]

Here is Ned (Lasiodora Parahybana) eating his first gerbil fuzzy. He molted recently and was ready for a good meal! He seemed to think the crickets I gave him were a snack :D I am wondering how long it will take him to eat it, I just took this photo about ten minutes ago.

<img src="http://members.rogers.com/xaerion/nedgerbil.jpg">

Marisa

[Tim and Julie B]

DAMN!!!!!!!!:jawdrop: That is so cool! (in a twisted kind of way!).

[Matt_K]

thats very cool!!! Nice pic Marisa as per usual!! :D

[marisa]

No not in a twisted way to us herping people! Only twisted to those normal non pet people! LOL

I love watching it! When I gave it to him, it took about 25 full seconds for it to stop moving. Its also really unreal how fast a T can move when its hungry!!!!

:D

Marisa

[marisa]

<img src="http://members.rogers.com/xaerion/nedgerbil2.jpg">

[CDN-Cresties]

:bugged: Wow, nice shot. I never saw anyting like that before.

-Steve-

[arachnomania]

I have to get my digital camera working!! I'll work on it this weekend as I am computer illitterate. All I know how to do is copy, paste, type,send and that's pretty much it (LOL). I don't know how many of you have large quantities of tarantulas but it takes me so long to feed all my tarantulas that they usually only get 1 feeding per week and rarely twice/week and it goes like this. I give 1 same size cricket as the baby tarantulas I feed once a week. If he jumps on it right away, I put another smaller cicket in the tank with him. The reason i mention this is that it is quit amazing to watch a small tarantula kill and eat something his own size or a little bigger. Tarantulas tend to grow slower but larger using this method. I've come to this conclusion after seeing mature males of many species and specimens being much bigger when wild caught than when being raised from s'lings. This is only an opinion and by no means is it the rule. Oh and just to come off the subject a little. I would much appreciate your thoughts as to what kind of pictures yo would like to see when i do get my camera working. Ex: mating, sheding, eating, handling methods, my set-up. I also don't explore ssnakess very much so If you could possibly direct me to someother thread that like receiving pictures. I've also asked the help of a friend of mine for the creation of a website so that might also be of interest to some. You can PM me with any idea's you might have about anything or even e-mail me at arachnomania2002@yahoo.com
Hope i didn't upset any of you for babling all this time. OH and Marisa, I remember back when i was in high school, I used to do class room presentations about tarantulas so i came up with a bright idea to show off my adult Curly hair eating a live adult mouse. It took a half hour before the mouse stoped twitching and to my surprise, most people weren't even grossed out about it. All in all, your T beat mine by 29 minutes and 35 seconds, congratulations (LOL).
Take care........

[marisa]

hahaha. Yeah I think this gerbil gave up quite quickly! LOL. He wasn't quite near eye opening stage, so he is actually fairly small too.

Marisa

[Blackwidow69]

:cool: Excellent pics marisa, dont ya just love them brazilian slamon pinks.... hehehehe!! They seem to have a endless pit when it comes to eatting and are able to take down big prey... My female loves rat pink pups just starting to get there hair.. Way to go marisa !!! ;)

[RaVeNo888o]

hey. i dont know anything about the t's but i was just exploring some more of ssnakess... I was just wondering, is it standard procedure to feed the rodents live? would he eat it if it was dead? does it not present the same risks as feeding live mice to snakes? just wondering, not knocking anyones ways :D

[marisa]

I don't know anyone who has a T that will eat frozen thawed food. Its pretty much standard to feed them live.

THey don't need HUGE meals so you can pretty much feed them live pinkies and fuzzies, which present little to no danger at all.

:D
Marisa

[arachnomania]

I actually never give my big tarantulas live food unless like Marisa said to feed them pinkies and fuzzies. All my adult Goliath have eaten freshly killed mice and/or baby rats. I just drop them a couple inches in front of them and beleive me, if their hungry they'll walk towards it, sink their fangs into it slowly and if it's edible, they'll eat it. You may also dangle a dead mouse or something similar by the tail using forceps in front of the tarantula and many times, they'll go for it. I actually use this technique alot while feeding them super worms because if the tarantula or scorpion doesn't eat them right away, they'll just bury themselves in the substrate. Oh and one more thing about tarantulas is that if you do give them a mouse and it decides to fight back, the tarantula, quick as they are will have time to run away. I've seen it done (mice don't run after trouble unless cornered). These animals are built to survive.

[enso]

Wicked pics, wicked arachnid!

[fanmaninacan]

COOL!

Im not a spider person..
But thats Cool
T.P

[RaVeNo888o]

cool ,thanks. I'll admit, that would be awesome to see one of those guys feeding..I guess just the idea of a SPIDER eating a mouse lol

what are you left with in the end? pretty much just the bones?

[OttawaChris]

I have always fed F/T pinky mice and rats to my T's. The real trick is in the presentation... drop the dead prey about 3 inches in front of the spider and 9 times out of 10 they pounce it. If they dont pounce it right away leave it for a couple of hours and they usually start chowing down.

[reptile boi]

That should take about an hour or two for the spider to finish.




Thanks,
Ben