Nom Nom nom Nom nom nom...

I really tiny part of my Blaptica dubia colony eating baby food (mashed fruit without any food additives):

Actually the colony has gotten so big that I have to reduce some of the individuals by giving about half of my culture away. Right now all my tarantulas except from Lumina (Brachypelma schroederi, juvenile) and Chiisai (Cyriocosmus elegans) are fasting; so the main roach-eater here right not is the emperor Swoon (Pandinus imperator). But when the culture is as big as it is, it doesn’t make any difference when your feeding with 4 nymphs and 6 adults every week, it just grows anyway...

Faint is dead

Today HugeSpider found Faint (Pandinus imperator) dead in her terrarium....

HugeSpider have watched her for me for a while, and she haven't eaten and the terrarium has been a little to dry lately. But she was a old lady so she probably died from age...

Faint was my first tropical arachnid and I bought her in Bergen the 15th of August 2005. And like every other arachnid you buy in a pet store in Norway she was probably captured in the wild (so don't buy from arachnids from pet stores!). When I brought her home to Drammen the first thing I did was to tell my mum, one day later she came to me and asked: "The scorpion isn't real is it?"

Some days later she escaped from the terrarium and when I found her and tried to get her up in a box she singed my thumb 3-4 times in row (I still got a scar as a memory of that).

One year I was afraid for her to die since she wouldn't eat (she just ate two crickets and one cockroach and one locust I think), but after a while her appetite came back (video).

And the last year she has accomplished to eat HugeSpiders Pandinus imperator male and been handled by a woman on a exhibition (the second time she was handled in my care and the only one without gloves) without stinging.

She has been a lovely girl full of attitude and I'm going to miss her...

Rest in peace my little girl

Because of a long term sickness I had to give away some of my animals today, and it's terrible, I'm sitting and crying today...


Anyway my new animal list is:

Tarantulas
0.1.0 Brachypelma baumgarteni
0.0.1 Brachypelma schroederi
0.0.1 Cyriocosmus elegans
0.1.0 Grammostola pulchra
0.1.0 Grammostola rosea NCF
0.0.4 Grammostola rosea RCF

Scorpions
0.1.0 Pandinus imperator

Insects
x.x.x Blaberus sp

Other arthropods
0.0.1 Telodeinopus aoutii

Mammals
1.0.0 Oryctolagus cuniculus
1.0.0 Phodopus sungorus

Balto is now owned together with Hamsterguardian which will update this blogg with Norwegian posts about Balto. I miss him soo mutch.

HugeSpider is watching after all my other animals now, exept from Aristoteles and my C. elegans, Chisaii, and of couse Balto. Bacause he has watched after my animals for a while now, we (and my family) have disided that I'm not capable of taking care of all my animals anylonger.

I feel teared apart and is crying a lot these days... All my animals is like children to me...