OK its started to get addictive now lol

[Abi Skeet]

Just ordered:
A. bicoloratum
B. Smithi and G. aureostriata for the other half (Adam Woods the other noob lol) as he kept going on about them. Though I think 5 is enough for now lol. Or we are going to be over run with T's and ferrets lol

Woke up this morning to find my L. parahybana sitting outside its tunnel. I havent seen it since Thursday as it had webbed itself in. I assumed it was going to shed as it went off its food but doesnt look any bigger. I turned the light on to get a better look and it ran back in where there was a gap of no web.So I fed it a cricket which has now dissapeered ( I asume its been eaten) and its webbed the entrance back up again. Any ideas why it does this or is it just unsociable lol as I have heard L. paras usually sit in the open and the one at college did lol.

Many thanks

[adam woods]

oh at you just the sweetest girlfriend lol
so i am a noob lol

[Abi Skeet]

you said it lol...you should be at work.....WORKING haha. Dont say thanks for ordering your T then

[Colin D Wilson]

I have heard L. paras usually sit in the open

Mine was always out, virtually impossible to disturb and ate in the open.
It moulted, and now it's in a burrow 80% of the time, when it DOES come out you only have to touch the door to it's cage and it disappears, it will now only eat in it's burrow.

seems i'm going to get a different personality per moult !!

[Harry Armstrong]

I have a E campestratus That never comes out of its hidey hole the only time i saw is was when I first bought it from Lee at the BTS show and when I first put it in its Home I only see a couple of legs sticking out now and again, but it eating well. It never even budged when I whistled lol.

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[Warren Beattie]

I told you!

Paras are - if I may be so bold - a bit weird. I heard the 'sitting in the open' thing too. Right now I have one L. parahybana and three pet holes. One has also decided it's in fact a P. murinus, after moulting.

[Helen Roberts]

Addictive is a bit of an understatement lol. I started with my daughters 2, one being an adult female L. parahybana and we now have 13 between us with another 2 coming this week.

The L. para divides her time between her hide and being out in the open, she tends to come out more when its warmer. She's been out for a few days now, but that's probably because we cleaned her tank out the other day and the substrate is a bit too damp for her. She's huge and a real beauty.

[Mark Pajak]

Going to shed?

Just ordered:
I assumed it was going to shed as it went off its food but doesnt look any bigger.

I have a juvenile (well I say that but shes grown to 2x the size of my 10yr old B.Smithi in 1year) L. Paryhabana who goes into a sort of premoult phase where I think she'll shed any day, that lasts for 6months!

First she totally rearranges her burrow so its much bigger (as she knows shes going to turn into a monster) then she pretends to go off food, or at least is less interested. Then after a week she suprises me by actually eating something. And by the time she has shed I'ts a complete suprise as I've nearly given up hope.

At the moment shes a realy beauty and hardly ever flicks hairs, instead she likes to stick her abdomen in the air and wave around here spinnerets making her look more like a furry snake!

She's going to need a bigger tank next shed though and I'm going to give her about 8" of jungle bedding substrate to test her full building skills.

I wonder how big there burrows are in the wild where there's no tank wall to stop them reching their full length? Mine seems to end up digging away so much that she opens up a second burrow entrance in the corner of the tank - like an escape tunnel!

[Colin D Wilson]

I wonder how big there burrows are in the wild where there's no tank wall to stop them reching their full length? Mine seems to end up digging away so much that she opens up a second burrow entrance in the corner of the tank - like an escape tunnel!

Mine's sort of doing the same, going along the enclosure (about an inch under) instead of down.

Most care sheets give 3-5 inches for substrate but i would imagine they could utilise much more.

[Abi Skeet]

thanks for the info guys so I assume every T is different lol. mine still hasnt come out of its tube and I'm starting to wondr if it ever will lol. Oh well one day it will be too big to fit in it and then it will have to come out and see me lol.
Will have to get it a bigger tank sorted soon

[Mark Pajak]

burrowing behaviour

I find it really interesting watching her create the burrow entrance - she rolls up a ball of substrate, finds a suitable spot outside and pats it down, then glues it in with a layer of silk

- this must take a bit of brain power, as if she has an idea of how she wants the burrow entrance to look, then executes the plan until shes satisfied!