My Rosea has been fasting for 3 months. I occasionally place a roach or something in the tank every few weeks to see if she'll eat.
Instead, when she senses it she moves toward the insect and feels it up. It doesnt seem like an attack posture, but instead a curiosity thing. She'll feel the food with her pedipalps and front legs, probing and just lightly touching it.
Most food items just freeze at this point and burrow if they can. The T will then walk over the partially buried insect and lay on it. After a while she walks away.
Now my question, could this all be a mating behavior? Could her fast be a mating behavior? A reproductive "safety" mode to minimize here chances of eating a potential mate.
Its just odd, she goes after anything that moves in her tank, but it never seems aggressive...I mean nothing like they way she moved when she was eating.
Instead, when she senses it she moves toward the insect and feels it up. It doesnt seem like an attack posture, but instead a curiosity thing. She'll feel the food with her pedipalps and front legs, probing and just lightly touching it.
Most food items just freeze at this point and burrow if they can. The T will then walk over the partially buried insect and lay on it. After a while she walks away.
Now my question, could this all be a mating behavior? Could her fast be a mating behavior? A reproductive "safety" mode to minimize here chances of eating a potential mate.
Its just odd, she goes after anything that moves in her tank, but it never seems aggressive...I mean nothing like they way she moved when she was eating.