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Have you had a tarantula that was doing great for a number of years and than all the sudden he or she molts and stops eating for a year and a half. She or he is still alive but concern about dying. I have tried every different living creature that you can possibly think of, to give my female tarantula food to eat, crickets, mice, lizards, and rats, etc.
Earlier this year I lost my female Brachypelma smithi do to the same problem she would not eat after molting, after a year without eating she died.
Now I'm having the same problem with another species. And she has gone over a year and a half without eating. Before I tell you what species it is that I'm having issues with and how I got her to eat again. I want your input.
What I'm about to tell you on how I got her to eat some of you will be against it as I'm as well. But there is got to be areas on behind on why certain species refuse food and only will take a different type of food than you normally would.
I'm posting this for educational purposes not to get into arguments but to figure out the tarantulas behavior mentality that they have.
So please just post your opinions if this has happen to any of you, of your tarantula refusing food for along time and later finding your tarantula dead.
This has happen to me a few times through my years. So any information helps. Thanks.
Jose
Earlier this year I lost my female Brachypelma smithi do to the same problem she would not eat after molting, after a year without eating she died.
Now I'm having the same problem with another species. And she has gone over a year and a half without eating. Before I tell you what species it is that I'm having issues with and how I got her to eat again. I want your input.
What I'm about to tell you on how I got her to eat some of you will be against it as I'm as well. But there is got to be areas on behind on why certain species refuse food and only will take a different type of food than you normally would.
I'm posting this for educational purposes not to get into arguments but to figure out the tarantulas behavior mentality that they have.
So please just post your opinions if this has happen to any of you, of your tarantula refusing food for along time and later finding your tarantula dead.
This has happen to me a few times through my years. So any information helps. Thanks.
Jose