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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    lol she looks pretty healthy, it seems like it would be hard to hold them, is it?
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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    i WOULD NOT let her eat a pinky ever!!!!! crickets are enough for her.. pinkies contain to much haserious crap to give to a spider... who told you can give her a pink once a week?
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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    Quote Originally Posted by Charlet_2007 View Post
    i WOULD NOT let her eat a pinky ever!!!!! crickets are enough for her.. pinkies contain to much haserious crap to give to a spider... who told you can give her a pink once a week?
    I agree that it shouldn't be a staple, but an occasional pinky does no harm to a T. Especially after having fasted before a molt, it's a good start to get them going again. My Redrump bird eater and my Rose hair have both taken pinks before, and my Rose hair is going on 15yrs. now. There's really nothing wrong with them, it's just a bit of a lot of food for them all at once to be giving it on a regular basis.
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    feed them onlyt crickets and every know and again give her a meal worm they like them. and remember when ur holding her and she flares her front legs up she almost certainly wont bite u. they do that to grab on, but remember u have to be firm with her or you will never get her undercontrol. when i was learning how to take care of my rossie along time ago 8 years now =) i kept a hat with me so when she was geting tempermental i could scoop her up in it and put her back till she cooled down. and about they only time you would ever get bit is if your fingers smelled like food ( t food crickets things like that) or if you sat there and wiggled your pinkie finger infront of her like a worm. but if they feel like they are going to fall off your hand they may bite in to hold on but wont use venom, if u do get bit dont panic and squish her or drop her, just bite the bullet and set her down. cause if they fall they will die. if you think u might have gotten some venom in ur arm or hand get an alcohal pad scrub the cut then wash it out with soap and put a band aid on it. also if ur alergic to bees really try not to get bitten cause the venom is really close to a bees. and what ever you do dont think you can get her defanged cause thats cruel and it will almost certainly kill her. i hate it when people ask me if i got her defanged and how i could keep a dangerous pet like that with a permit...its insulting and makes me wana slap those people silly. well any ways
    good luck with ur rossie they are great pets. and yeah no more pinkies those are pretty bad, just stick with the meal worms, and crickets, u can even give her some night crawlers every now and again. idk if my rossie ate apples but when i would put half an apple in her cage she would go and lay down ontop of it. and when u clean her cage remember to rearange the stuff in there so its completely new or every now and again go through and put new stuff in and take old stuff out. the rose hair is a wandering tarantula and needs different things to stimulate her because they dont make permanant homes.

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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    I really want a rosehair, but can't seem to find one for "cheap." D:

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    Yeh that diet is ok now.....just post shed and all, but is going to be a bit much eventually. I try not to make pinks a major part of the diet....a lot of fat. T's don't have a very big metabolism, and although I haven't actually heard of any detrimental affects, I figure since they usually subsist on a rather more "lean" deit of inverts. I'd be safe then sorry. Also not to be a downer, but be careful when handling her. The big worry here is her falling. I can't tell how far off the ground she is in the pic, but a fall can pretty much be fatal. They're rather delicate. So if you'r going to handle her, do it over something soft and not too far off the ground. Good for you for over coming your fear of her though.
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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    Roy, thanks, I was holding her over the bed but you know, I could feel her little feet grabbing on-- kind of prickly-- I keep reading that they can fall easily but I wonder how? Esp. after watching her climb up the glass and around the edge of her tank. I'm not arguing, believe me, and I'll be very careful but they really do grasp on so what's up with all the falling talk? Lack of gracefulness? lol

    I'll feed her crickets today. May be best to alternate the pinkies to maybe just once or twice a month. With my luck I'd keep feeding her pinkies and she'd keep growing to the size of a large poodle... LOL!!

    Reed, it wasn't really hard to hold her but I never really picked her up-- I let her walk up on me and then let her walk off onto the dresser and bed, and would just put my hand in front of her to walk back up on to. Her feet felt kind of prickly, and once when I raised my hand (she was half on my hand, half on my shirt) she "held on" to my shirt and hand both, and it scared me that I was stretching her and she wasn't letting go! So I had to wait until she walked all the way up onto my hand.

    Pretty cool, for sure. And she really has grown and colored up; I just love the copper color on her back. Or, front. Or, whatever that part of her is. LOL
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    sounds great Lori, she really is pretty for a spider, keep up the good work....
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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    Good job, Lori!! I knew you could do it!!
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    Re: OMG I kind of "rescued" a tarantula-- help!

    my 2nd grade teacher had one in the classroom and he used to let us feed it crickets!
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