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I'm assuming we are talking about an adult Chilean rose. If yours has a DLS of less than about 5 cm, these instructions may not be correct. Get back to us for different instructions.
If your Chilean rose doesn't eat the cricket within a day or two, give the cricket to something else before it dies of starvation or thirst.
If your Chilean rose goes on a fast (i.e., it stops eating for a long time), change to a practice of trying to feed it one (1) cricket a month. Again, if the cricket isn't eaten within a day or two, give it to something else.
Nothing special is required for feeding them. You simply throw one cricket in once a week, or all 3, 4, or 5 at the same time once a month. Your choice. Whatever's convenient for you. The crickets will wander around the cage. The tarantula will easily detect their activity through vibrations or personal contact. If it's hungry it'll eat it/them. If it isn't it'll usually ignore the crickets. Once in a great while we hear about tarantulas that aren't hungry, but kill the crickets anyway. Obviously, the tarantula wants to be left alone. Skip one or two week's feedings and try again.
Stop stressing over your tarantulas! The Chilean rose(s) that you have now as pets, if wild caught, are something like 5 to 15 years old. They have survived in one of the harshest environments on Earth, and they were doing just fine until some huge, clumsy, alien thing with body odor and bad breath abducted them, transported them to a completely alien world, put them in a cell that looks, feel, smells, and sounds weird, and now won't go away and leave it alone. WHAT'S NEXT? ANAL PROBES? :biggrin:
Just to verify - you're the person who has two Chilean roses, a male and a female? You are keeping them in separate cages, right? You never put them together, right?
Correct.... People say grammostola rosea can be confrontable with the temperatre where a human is confrontable with. ...
I presume this is just for the winter? Will it start to get warmer in a month or so? If so, no worries.... In my house the day temperature is 69.80000000000001 fahrenheit (21 degrees celcius). And in night it is 62.6 Fahrenheit (17 degrees celcius). ...
They don't need direct light in their cage, although it should be light enough during the day that you have no trouble seeing them. And yes, they do need to be able to see a distinct difference between night and day.... No light at all they have in their enclosure now. And it's pretty dark but they can see the defirence between day and night. ...
The temperature is just fine. See my questions above, and comments below.... Is this temperature fine? ...
Tarantulas are not hyperactive pets. If you expect them to bounce around the cage like a canary you're going to be vastly disappointed. And, since you're keeping yours rather cool during winter, they're going to move AND EAT even less.... Since they are in the new bigger enclosure with out light they don't move at all. (This can be because they are a bit freaked out bit in the night they haven't moved at all either... :/ ) ...
EVERYBODY OVERFEEDS THEIR CHILEAN ROSES! During the warmer months you should feed each Chilean rose tarantula about one large cricket a WEEK. That amounts to about 4 or 5 a month. During colder weather, because you're keeping yours cooler, you can reduce that to one adult cricket about every 10 days, or three a month.... How should I feed them?
Pin the cricket and than keep it infront of the T and wait till it gets it and let the cricket go?
Because the last time I've feeded them the cricket just ran away and tried to hide.
I was lucky he ran onto my spider and my spider grabbed him but since they are in a new cage crickets have a lot bigger change to hide and burrow ...
So ... How do you feed?
If your Chilean rose doesn't eat the cricket within a day or two, give the cricket to something else before it dies of starvation or thirst.
If your Chilean rose goes on a fast (i.e., it stops eating for a long time), change to a practice of trying to feed it one (1) cricket a month. Again, if the cricket isn't eaten within a day or two, give it to something else.
Nothing special is required for feeding them. You simply throw one cricket in once a week, or all 3, 4, or 5 at the same time once a month. Your choice. Whatever's convenient for you. The crickets will wander around the cage. The tarantula will easily detect their activity through vibrations or personal contact. If it's hungry it'll eat it/them. If it isn't it'll usually ignore the crickets. Once in a great while we hear about tarantulas that aren't hungry, but kill the crickets anyway. Obviously, the tarantula wants to be left alone. Skip one or two week's feedings and try again.
Stop stressing over your tarantulas! The Chilean rose(s) that you have now as pets, if wild caught, are something like 5 to 15 years old. They have survived in one of the harshest environments on Earth, and they were doing just fine until some huge, clumsy, alien thing with body odor and bad breath abducted them, transported them to a completely alien world, put them in a cell that looks, feel, smells, and sounds weird, and now won't go away and leave it alone. WHAT'S NEXT? ANAL PROBES? :biggrin:
Just to verify - you're the person who has two Chilean roses, a male and a female? You are keeping them in separate cages, right? You never put them together, right?
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