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I went to the pet store to pick up a block of 'Bed A Beast' (really... just going for the BAB. ) and they had 3 Ts, so of course I had to look. One was a small 3" rosehair for 20$, another was an "Orange Baboon" T for 30$, I couldn't get a good look at it since it was all webbed up in a corner cocoon, and for 20$ they had an "Asian Birdeater", which I couldn't see at all so I asked them to get the keeper out for me so I could look in. Well when I did, it was dead. Death Curl, all that... it was very dark charcoal gray with black 'tiger' stripes on the butt, I'm guessing it was a c. paganus. It was about 2&1/2", very sad to see this. The pet store guy mumbled something about some lady "just checking them on thursday" and seemed embarrassed, but he should have been ashamed of the nasty kritter keepers they were in. No water, about 5 crickets hopping all over the dead one and pebbles in the bottom -- it was ugly!!!!
I told him to at least use bed a beast and make sure they have a little water ("spiders get all the water they need from food", he told me), and only feed them one or two crix at a time and remove them if it doesn't eat/ after it eats. There was a layer of bug ick on the bottom of the g. roseas keeper. I told him about mites and fungus and he seemed interested, so hopefully he was. You wouldn't think he'd want to lose anymore stock at least, though this was a very humid mainly fish pet store I'd never been to before. I'll visit at least one more time to see if he's taken any time to house them better and if he doesn't I won't be back. I just rescued another g. rosea and am considering going back for the one he had, it was very cute and not scared at all of "the hand." LOL
I just ordered a slew of L. parahybana s'lings... =oP shew, I'll be full up soon, LOL
I told him to at least use bed a beast and make sure they have a little water ("spiders get all the water they need from food", he told me), and only feed them one or two crix at a time and remove them if it doesn't eat/ after it eats. There was a layer of bug ick on the bottom of the g. roseas keeper. I told him about mites and fungus and he seemed interested, so hopefully he was. You wouldn't think he'd want to lose anymore stock at least, though this was a very humid mainly fish pet store I'd never been to before. I'll visit at least one more time to see if he's taken any time to house them better and if he doesn't I won't be back. I just rescued another g. rosea and am considering going back for the one he had, it was very cute and not scared at all of "the hand." LOL
I just ordered a slew of L. parahybana s'lings... =oP shew, I'll be full up soon, LOL