So once a week I got my routine of feeding my T's and I usually know who will be eating and who won't be eating, I guess you get to know your T's habits. So here is how I start feeding time, first thing I do is take the container with the crickets and they go into the freezer for about 15 mins ( that is the easiest way for me to pick the perfect sizes for each of my T's, as all 5 of them are different sizes and one of them gets two, as I can't handle the crickets jumping all over as I try and choose them, it will take me forever to feed them :silly: ).
So after I have placed the crickets in the freezer I put the 5 T's on my bed and arrange them in the way I will be feeding them starting with the smallest to the biggest ( see pictures below)...
So first up it is Monster.... (Costa Rican Tiger Rump - Cyclosternum Fasciatum)
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Then it is the sweet little Lee... ( Feather Leg Baboon - Stromatopelma Calceatum)
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Then it is lovely Jami... ( Chilean Rose - Grammastola Rosea RCF)
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Then beautiful Mental... ( Fringed Ornamental - Poecilotheria Ornata)
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And lastly vicious Jessi... ( Curlyhair - Brachypelma Albopilosum)
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Now everybody gets one cricket except for Jessi she gets two, and yes as Curly nature is they do not pass up on food, Jessi will still be busy with one cricket, but as soon as the other cricket starts moving Jessi pounces on it like a tiger, and low and behold Jessi will be munching down on two crickets at the same time :evilgrin: .
Monster is also a great eater and even if the cricket is the same size as him, that does not faze him at all he goes for it one shot and enjoys his food. Lee and Mental no way they passing on their meals either, I usually place Lee's cricket just by the entrance of her burrow and when I look the cricket is gone, but not tonight, Lee decided it would be fun just to numb the cricket and tear one back leg off and munch on that first and only later went for the rest, Lee is so cruel sometimes whistle2 .
As for Mental I had to probe into her burrow a little bit to make sure she ain't busy molting as she recently started closing up her holes and I am taking a guess that she is going into pre-molt, as she usually got two nice big holes open where I just drop the cricket in. And yes Mental is not pleased with me about that as she has still not come out of her burrow as she usually does at night time, but she has munched her cricket :eyepoke: .
Now we all know how it goes with the Rosea when it comes to feeding time, always on a diet right kungfu , as Jami ate mighty fine a week after her molt, but tonight Jami gave me a nice surprise by eating again :woohoo: , yip Jami ate, you read that correctly indeed, I placed the cricket into her enclosure, and expecting the norm of her not eating, but hell no, when that cricket started moving she was all over it, and I had a silly grin on my face seeing her munching away. So for once all my babies ate and I am so pleased with each one of them :happy: .