MF Rosie - 9 months

I have a Brachypelma boehmei sling that hasn't eaten in about 3 months. It's had a cockroach living in its small 10cm enclosure with if for the last month as well and they just happily avoid each other. I do replace the cockroach once a week with a new one

EDIT: Oh, and my h. Incei hasn't eaten for about 4 months now that I think of it. Even after I have tried putting cockroaches right into its webbed tunnels

I've had my curly hair (B. Albopilosum) since the 8th of August this year.. :spider:
She's about 15cm, maybe a bit bigger even, no hooks or anything lol.
Hasn't eaten since I got her (about 7-ish weeks now), but she looks healthy.
Moves around, drinks water, nice big fat abdomen.
As far as I know, curly's are supposed to be pigs when it comes to eating... Never stopping.
I've only been in the tarantula hobby for 2 months now, so is this normal what she's doing?

Hi There

I wouldn't worry, as you say her abdomen is nice and fat and she has access to water.

I had a MF curly that sometimes went for a couple of months without eating.

Probably just a T being a T.....

2cm B. smithi buried itself in March, hasn't eaten since. It's alive, because I can see into its burrow. Seems healthy enough.

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Keep in mind that Chilean rose tarantulas (Grammostola rosea) are southern hemisphere tarantulas, therefore those of you trying to keep them in South Africa (or other places in the Southern Hemisphere) normally have very little trouble with them. Living in SA is about the same as living in Chile.

Having said that, by far most of the roses exported from Chile end up in the Northern Hemisphere, and thereby hangs a huge problem. Before they can eat, molt, or breed on a normal schedule they have to perform a sort of "frame of reference shift." And roses, apparently of all tarantulas, seem to have a particularly difficult time of it. All that's explained in Care and Husbandry of the Chilean Rose Tarantula .

Also, no matter where you live, if you acquire a baby or very young spiderling rose that was cage bred and raised, it will automagically become imprinted with the local calendar very shortly after it emerges from the eggsac, and is little different in that respect than any other locally acclimatized tarantula.

So much for the background.

On this side of the planet (North America), however, we have a completely difference experience. Baby and young spiderling roses act no differently here than they would in SA, but the adults often have a lot of trouble, especially if their new keeper is a newbie and doesn't understand the spiders' needs or how to care for them. (Hence, Care and Husbandry of the Chilean Rose Tarantula .)

The record as far as I can remember way up here is approximately 3 years and a few weeks of fasting. And, the tarantula survived and is reportedly doing fine. Unfortunately, I have long since forgotten who reported this, so I can't verify the report.

On a related but tangential note, I saw a tarantula this past weekend (Brachypelma albopilosum, curlyhair tarantula) at a local reptile show that had been fed only one large cricket A MONTH for the last 17 years! And while it was not "chubby," it appeared in good health and was reasonably active.

Food for thought. But, no more than one cricket a week!


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