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sliprep66 Babycurus
Number of posts : 384 Age : 35 Location : Joliet IL Registration date : 2008-06-05
| Subject: Chilean rose tarantula 6/9/2008, 7:24 pm | |
| i bought a Chilean rose tarantula today and would thick cut coco fibers be good for the spider i jus changed emp to fir and peat moss mix but ran out when it came to the spider it has a thin lair about half in thik witch is not good at all | |
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Mr. Mordax Administrator
Number of posts : 7743 Age : 38 Location : PNW Registration date : 2008-02-06
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/9/2008, 8:27 pm | |
| Regular coco fiber is best, as it's easier to burrow in.
Don't use any softwood products such as fir -- it's bad for bugs. | |
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sliprep66 Babycurus
Number of posts : 384 Age : 35 Location : Joliet IL Registration date : 2008-06-05
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/9/2008, 8:36 pm | |
| will it kiil my emp or thr tarantula | |
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Mr. Mordax Administrator
Number of posts : 7743 Age : 38 Location : PNW Registration date : 2008-02-06
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/9/2008, 8:46 pm | |
| Possibly both. Some people have success with keeping a few bugs on pine-related substrate (when they're found on it in nature), but generally the resins are harmful to invertebrates. I'd get some regular coco as soon as you can. | |
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sliprep66 Babycurus
Number of posts : 384 Age : 35 Location : Joliet IL Registration date : 2008-06-05
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/10/2008, 9:39 am | |
| my tarantula was wigging out with the other stuff in the cage i took it put the thick cut back in it seems to like it better for the fact that it stay on the ground a not hanging upside down | |
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*Connie* Post-whore
Number of posts : 3705 Age : 40 Location : England Registration date : 2008-02-06
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/10/2008, 10:03 am | |
| Pandinus Imperator normally likes to dig and make burrows. He/she wont be able to do that on wood chips or whatever you have your little one on. Get some "plantation" soil (coco fibre) and your little one will be fine and dandy. Now for your chilean rose....I have no idea why its freaking out..maybe it found the substrate too wet? They generally like it "Quite" dry so it hanging out on the top might have only been a hint that maybe what you had before was too wet? xxx | |
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sliprep66 Babycurus
Number of posts : 384 Age : 35 Location : Joliet IL Registration date : 2008-06-05
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Mr. Mordax Administrator
Number of posts : 7743 Age : 38 Location : PNW Registration date : 2008-02-06
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/10/2008, 3:01 pm | |
| If a burrowing species such as a rosehair was hanging from the lid, it definitely didn't like something. Was that with the pine-related substrate? The thick cut should be ok, but regular cocofiber will make burrowing easier. Good luck. | |
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sliprep66 Babycurus
Number of posts : 384 Age : 35 Location : Joliet IL Registration date : 2008-06-05
| Subject: Re: Chilean rose tarantula 6/10/2008, 3:31 pm | |
| yeah it stayed on the bottem after i chaged it to the thick stuff i got zoomed ecoearth i already put it in with the emp but im drying it out for the spider hope it likes it | |
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