She's probably about 6 inches from furthest front toe left to back toe right. Her species gets to be around 7.5 or 8 inches from toe to toe.
Tarantulas are different from other spiders (some argue that they are technically more closely related to Vingeroons (googling these creatures is not for the faint of heart) than other spiders) because they are hairy, have eight eyes rather than the six than some spiders have, have two retractable claws on each foot, and have fangs that move up and down rather than horizontally as they do on most spiders. There are additional qualifications, but it gets more dicey beyond that. Generally the ones that have the itchy hairs that they flick are known as New World species (since they're the spiders that evolved in the Americas). The ones that just have very strong venom are called Old World species (and come from Africa and Asia).
To back up a bit, it started doing that earlier in the week. I took the one off and we replaced the battery, because it seriously was upsetting Sugar. Poor thing was panting and shaking like crazy every time it beeped! Then after that, the one in the living room started up. Much louder than the other. And then today, when it was beeping every ten minutes, Sugar went into pure panic mode :frusty: So, I went to the city to pick up my brother, bring him over to replace the battery and put back both detectors (because I was freaking out too much on the ladder). And then he helped with some other stuff before I took him home.
Yes maam, I sure do. I also put it on the bottom of the book case. There is only 2 inches between the top of the tank and the shelf above it. I will, however, have to move the tank a little in order to get in it. It's not hard though. It slides fairly easy. Not easy enough for the cats to move it though.
There's 4 in it and I have 3 more to put in the tank after their quarantine . I have a small tank that has three fish in it. But one of the fish had ick on it, so they all have to be treated. Once it's cleared up, I'll put them in the tank too. I don't think she has a favorite yet. I think she likes all fish!
Sarthur2
I'm ready to move in with you. I miss my tank tops flips flops. I'm sick of coats and boots.
There was a little bit of overlap where we had both the turtles and the cat, and by the time we released the turtles (into a pond owned by someone who had been looking to add turtles to it--and I did check to make sure that red-eared sliders are native to where we live before releasing them) and the turtles were eating live fish by that time, so Rose got a good view (the turtles were in a clear plastic tub) at the turtles and the fish. She had no reaction to the turtles, but she did like to watch the fish. (I tried to keep a couple after releasing the turtles, just so that she could watch them, but it turns out that while I can keep turtles and fish alive I can't keep just fish alive. Not sure why, don't really care. (She didn't try to eat them--she just watched.)
Cute
We only have 2 zebras and 2 of something orange and clear that I can't remember the name of. I also have 2 guppies and a cat fish in another tank.Cute :nod: What kind of fish do you have in there? I thought about getting a betta awhile ago and even got a decent sized really good brand of tank and set up at a great price but haven't gotten around to it yet.
The cats used to be interested in the gerbils way back when they were kittens. I have three geriatic mice now and the cats ignore them. Guess mice aren't as fun as gerbils. I'm thinking of one day getting guinea pigs or a hedgehog. I wonder how the cats would react to a bigger small furry
rhondalee
Wow.
That is a seriously cool aquarium.
A very long time ago, way back when I had Sweet Thing, I got a goldfish. Sweets didn't like getting her paws wet, so I thought the goldfish would be safe. Wrong! Live and learn, I guess.
Wow. :jaw: How do you keep all of those plants alive in the aquarium? When I had one they all died and I had to then fish out the fish and turtles and scrub everything because the dying plants left some kind of slime all over everything that clogged my filters.(Another thing Petsmart lied to me about; the plants were marked for "beginners".)
tallyollyopia
I only hand out my number to people I want to call me, or to recognize who it is when I call them, and I always turn it off while driving. Oh, yes, and when I get phone spam, I use caller ID blocking so that I don't have to deal with that person again. (When I was visiting my mother and brother in Oregon a couple of years ago, I got a call on my old clam shell cell phone from some interior decorator in Wyoming, asking for "Mark." My brother's name is Mark, and I couldn't figure out why he would have given my cell phone number to an interior decorator in Wyoming, of all places. Eventually it came out that the guy was trying to call a client in Colorado [same area code as my phone] who happened to be named Mark. Then he called again. It appears that my number was just one digit off from his client's number, and he kept mis-dialing, so I put a block on his number. Then he called again, from a different phone! Sigh. I hope he got as tired of talking to me as I got of talking to him.)
