The arachnophobe with 2 new pet T's

[DragonsEye]

Originally Posted by lady_bug87

I'm considering it.... I keep going back and forth about it

How about this?




how can you possible be scared of a bright blue spider with big feet?

Originally Posted by BlindOne

Never gut loaded my crix with the T's.....think that's more of a thing with lizards...

Not at all. Crickets should always be gutloaded no matter what your feeding them to. Pet store crickets are typically kept alive with a chunk of potatoe for their food and water source. Result is a cricket low in nutrition. Animals feeding on a properly/well fed cricket are themselves getting a more nutrious meal both frm the nutrients the cricket has absorbed as well as from what remains in the crickets stomach contents.

Btw, what type of viper is your avatar?

Originally Posted by Gungirl

For the most part anything that is good for your pet that you will be feeding the cricket to. I know oranges are commonly used as well as most veggies.

Fish flake food is an excellant food source for gutloading.

[BlindOne]

Originally Posted by DragonsEye

Result is a cricket low in nutrition. Animals feeding on a properly/well fed cricket are themselves getting a more nutrious meal both frm the nutrients the cricket has absorbed as well as from what remains in the crickets stomach contents.

Btw, what type of viper is your avatar?[/COLOR][/FONT]

Atheris squamigera

Interesting info about the crix, I've never gut loaded and I've been breeding T's for 4 years. I'll have to read up

[DragonsEye]

Originally Posted by BlindOne

Atheris squamigera

Interesting info about the crix, I've never gut loaded and I've been breeding T's for 4 years. I'll have to read up

Gorgeous viper! Is it yours?

What T's have you been breeding? (I can guess OWs from what you said in another post. )

[BlindOne]

Originally Posted by DragonsEye

Gorgeous viper! Is it yours?

What T's have you been breeding? (I can guess OWs from what you said in another post. )

I'm no longer in the venomous game, I have two kids with another due any day now. I have kept Atheris in the past and they were neat little vipers. All of the tree vipers are cool - Waglers, Bush, Eyelash etc..

I've bred Tapinauchenius, Avicularia, Poecilotheria, and Psalmopoeus. I keep mostly OW stuff but 3 of the species I've bred are NW. Irony! My favs are the pokies, GBB and my Panama Blondes

Psalmopoeus pulcher

[DragonsEye]

Originally Posted by BlindOne

I've bred Tapinauchenius, Avicularia, Poecilotheria, and Psalmopoeus. I keep mostly OW stuff but 3 of the species I've bred are NW. Irony! My favs are the pokies, GBB and my Panama Blondes

Psalmopoeus pulcher

That is ironic. I had assumed OW since you mentioned keeping them.

Nice P. pulcher. Recently my P. irminia sling molted. I believe the poor bugger is deluded. Seems to think it is either a purse spider or a Haplo --- always hiding in its burrow and waiting until a cricket is actually dancing on its tube web before trying ot attack.

[BlindOne]

Originally Posted by DragonsEye

That is ironic. I had assumed OW since you mentioned keeping them.

Nice P. pulcher. Recently my P. irminia sling molted. I believe the poor bugger is deluded. Seems to think it is either a purse spider or a Haplo --- always hiding in its burrow and waiting until a cricket is actually dancing on its tube web before trying ot attack.

My irminia have huge dirt curtains and you wouldn't know they were there except for the little hole at the very top of the cork bark. Too bad they're hidey spideys, they're very attractive.