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They are all a bit messy – like almost all of my spiders. That's why I have employed charladies: As charladies/garbagemen I put a small tropical woodlouse (probably the species is Trichorhina tomentosa) with about 4 - 5 mm bodylength in all of my moist tanks (they need the moisture otherwise they will dry out). They will eat anything which can mould and keep the tanks clean. =
They are all a bit messy – like almost all of my spiders. That's why I have employed charladies: As charladies/garbagemen I put a small tropical woodlouse (probably the species is Trichorhina tomentosa) with about 4 - 5 mm bodylength in all of my moist tanks (they need the moisture otherwise they will dry out). They will eat anything which can mould and keep the tanks clean. =
all the best,
Martin
Are you coming to the show this year?
If so I'd be extremely grateful if you could bring a couple of these garbagemen with you for me - I could really do with them in my Haplopelma tanks
Not sure yet if I will there – would like to of course! Remind me some days before and I will bring you a starter culture to the BTS show. Otherwise I can send you a couple via snail mail next spring (at the moment it is too cold, it's freezing here) or piggyback with someone who is coming to the International Theraphosid Meeting in Stuttgart - Kornwestheim.
BTW, her is a close up shot of these small tropical woodlice I use: >>click here<<
And here they are in action (in a P. cambridgei tank, eating the remains of a roach [Blaptica dubia] which has eaten a carrot itself short before getting eaten by the P. cambridgei): >>click here<<. After one or two days, you only will see the remains of the chitin left.
BTW, her is a close up shot of these small tropical woodlice I use: >>click here<<
And here they are in action (in a P. cambridgei tank, eating the remains of a roach [Blaptica dubia] which has eaten a carrot itself short before getting eaten by the P. cambridgei): >>click here<<. After one or two days, you only will see the remains of the chitin left.
LOL
By now, what can You say about their behaviour?
not much since they are not adult yet – the first specimens are now subadult. Boris STRIFFLER wrote an article about his experiences of keeping and breeding them in communal tanks:
STRIFFLER, B. (2002): Poecilotheria subfusca POCOCK, 1895: Gemeinschaftshaltung und Nachzucht. Reptilia 7(6): 36-41.
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