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A bicoloratum murder spree
I had a sub adult/adult Aphonopelma bicoloratum bought for me as a gift and I've had her a couple of weeks now. She has ignored her food, and her burrow that I started for her...now thismorning I did my usual tank checks to make sure they were all ok when I found her face down in the burrow. I sat and watched her and she emerged from the burrow entrance with a mangled up cricket, walked over to her water bowl and dumped the body into it. I'm not concerned or anything but more curious as to why and is this common behaviour in some spiders? It doesnt look like any of the cricket was eaten at all.
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sometimes when a spider is not eating (maybe an approaching moult, or maybe just one of the fasts the desert species go through at times), they'll find the crickets annoying and kill them.
for some strange reason, spiders often deposit bodies in water dishes while doing their own tidying. they must think of the dishes as rubbish bins!Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
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My g.rosea quite often takes a bath in her water dish. she literally climbs completely on the dish, then dunks her torso in the water and stays there for a few minutes :S i was thinking about putting in a small bar of soap and a towl for her to use lol
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Yep, a lot of mine dump food remains in the water. Quite annoying when you have just changed them all.
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I have an adult Phlogius crassipes that likes to sit on top of its water bowl and stare out of its tank, a Grammostola concepcion that uses its bowl as a toilet. Its the most energetic thing the Aphonopelma has done since I got her, she's now taken over the burrow by the look of it now that all the sqatters have been evicted! Take out the deceased and let her get on with it then
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You want to be careful she doesn't kill everything and build her burrow over it, might have an Indian Burial Ground effect!!Follow the progress of my spiderlings: The Spiderling Project
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