Gpappy31
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When I purchased my Chilean rose a while back I did a little experiment. Now this was most likely done in the past or there is already a thread on this, but i do not have the patience to search for this therefor I am still going to share my experience.
When I was adding substrate into the enclosure I added 4 super worms. I simply wanted to see if my Chilean rose would hunt them down and actually pull them out. She did and she ate all on her own. Every single superworm. My Chilean rose is in a 5.5 gallon tank, which makes this experiment a bit easier.
Now I have a few tropical species that I have not tested this out on simply because their enclosures are much larger and the substrate is much heavier/thicker. So for now it seems to work for dry species. I do have an A. ezendami T that I have tried this experiment on but have not actually caught her catching the superworm. I believe it's because she has much larger depth of substrate than my Chilean rose. The rest of my dry species are slings and cannot be tested yet.
So what do you guys think? I think this is a great way to keep tarantulas acting like they are in the wild and have to hunt for food. But I think it will only work for certain species....
When I was adding substrate into the enclosure I added 4 super worms. I simply wanted to see if my Chilean rose would hunt them down and actually pull them out. She did and she ate all on her own. Every single superworm. My Chilean rose is in a 5.5 gallon tank, which makes this experiment a bit easier.
Now I have a few tropical species that I have not tested this out on simply because their enclosures are much larger and the substrate is much heavier/thicker. So for now it seems to work for dry species. I do have an A. ezendami T that I have tried this experiment on but have not actually caught her catching the superworm. I believe it's because she has much larger depth of substrate than my Chilean rose. The rest of my dry species are slings and cannot be tested yet.
So what do you guys think? I think this is a great way to keep tarantulas acting like they are in the wild and have to hunt for food. But I think it will only work for certain species....