just watched my chile rose pounce from her hide

[scotttaylor]

just woched my chile rose pounce from her hyed. had her for ages she still rocks
i cut her hyed down as she spent so much time in the gap betwen the hyed and the back of the tank.
put 2 crickets in and 1 whent to the side and the other doing what circkets do best whats that dark place.
she was facing the rong way as i put in the fist she turnd around and as the second whent in about 1cm she pounced like a prow. so cool to woch.
the fist cricket is try to dig and hyed as its mate is food

[Peter Lacey]

can I suggest a spell checker? please?

[Andrew Ferguson]

My smithi juvenile did a very similar thing not too long ago. An awesome sight to behold.

As for what Peter has mentioned. Download the Google toolbar which has an inbuilt spell checker. Write out your post then click on spell check before submitting a post. I find it an invaluable tool for forums.

[scotttaylor]

i would love to use a spell checker but im so dexlisc that im basiclay word blinde with them im a frayed
i have spent a day trying to spell desliya for a spell cheacker on line if you happen to now hows its spelt pls let me now

[Andrew Ferguson]

Here you go Scott. It is spelt dyslexia

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

[Peter Lacey]

Sorry Scot, didn't mean to be rude, I just find it hard reading your posts sometimes, and yet other times they're far more readable. We have someone who suffers from dyslexia at work but he seems to navigate around his issue well, not bad in a typesetting environment!
Can I suggest you use the FireFox browser: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
That is a much better browser, much safer and quicker than most other browsers. It also has a built in spell checker which highlights words as you type them to show misspellings or words it doesnt recognise. Right click on the word and you'll be presented some alternative spellings/words. We all make spelling mistakes but this will catch the majority of them.
If you're interested you can download extra features for FireFox that help your browsing and searching plus some great web developer tools and a handy ebay tool. And all for FREE!

[Dave Freeman]

My mate has a good chile rose, shes quite an agressive feeder and will take down anything her size as long as shes hungry.

[Phil Rea]

There are various forms and severities of dyslexia. Some ranging from mixing a few letters up, to having entire pages of words unreadably moving in front of your eyes. My nephew is badly dyslexic, but has struggled through his education, gained his batchelor's degree, and is now working for British Aerospace, so it's not the handicap many people think it is.

Some people on here are not first language English (myself included actually), so a little patience and tolerance goes a long way.

As for criticism of grammar and spelling in posts, may I remind everyone that this is a spider forum, and not an English lesson

Anyway, back to the topic of the thread.

Scott, it's always good when they just turn around and pounce on food that way. Arboreals are also great to watch. Some of my poecs will sometimes grab food as it's falling past them which happens so fast, you can hardly see them move!

[Andrew Ferguson]

Here you go Scott. It is spelt dyslexia

http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

Scott, I hope you didn't think I was being patronising. When I told my wife she said I was. That really wasn't my intention.

[Pam Turner]

Isn't it great Scott, to watch them catch their meal? Feeding time is my favorite, I can spend 2 hours easily (only have 15 to feed), watching everyone catch and start eating. I find it mezmorizing.

[Ray Hale]

A lesson learnt here I think boys!.

"Its not hows its written its what is said that is important"



Ray

[Colin D Wilson]

Scott, I hope you didn't think I was being patronising. When I told my wife she said I was. That really wasn't my intention.

I dont think Scott will assume that Andrew, we had a similar occurance when he first joined and it ended up as a very informative post.

as per your post Scott,
I'm still fascinated by all my spiders after all the years i've kept them, feeding time is always a pleasure to watch.

Looks like it was a good idea to cut the hide down a bit and make it fit better in the tank.

Keep enjoying her mate

Colin

[Tracy Sherwood-Farnfield]

I fed my G.rosea for the first time last night after her recent moult. Boy was she hungry! I dropped in 2 smallish crickets (they didn't have any of the slightly larger ones when I went shopping), 1 went straight into the flower-pot - found one of the holes at the back and disappeared! Ruby was not impressed. He was abviously moving around because she kept moving around and sitting on the substrate above the end of the pot, sensing his movements. At one point I thought she was going to try and dig the little blighter out as she started 'pawing' the gound much like a dog trying to get at a burried bone! But then.... the other chappey started hopping around so she gave up on the burried one and chased him around the tank instead finially cornering him up against her water bowl.

There is no sign of the resourcful cricket, I saw him just before we went to bed - if you shone a tourch down inside the pot you could see his 'tail' bits just poking out of the hole. I assume he may have surfaced in the night to become desert!

I love watching her feed, I sit there in eager anticipation as each cricket approaches his end....thrilling!

[Tom Forman]

I agree with Phil, I find it amazing how arboreals will catch a falling bug, turn it the right way and kill it in the right way in less than a millisecond.

Just catching it is impressive enough but everytime I check to see where the spider has bit the bug, it has managed to get the bug in the right place too.