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vagans: one hooked out 2 days ago, the other about a month ago
parahybana: one hooked out about 2 months ago, the other about 3 months
you can have any or all of them for the cost of shipping , around $60
I probably won't want any slings back but if you do have a successful egg sack I'd like...
without having seen it it's hard to give you a definitive answer. i can say that i can't count how many times ive seen one of my spiders in what looked like the beginning of a death curl when in fact they were just sitting scrunched up. so assuming that the water hasn't been empty for a long...
yea, its why i went to the larger containers and high sub moisture. i could go longer in between waterings bewfire it dried out. though this is the only sp that hasnt tolerated it. several of my a.chacodes drowned in their water dishes. i use quite a few husbandry short cuts that work very well...
oh yea, i definitely wont be keeping any as moist as before. the "dish" is so small that i doubt it would create any humidty. i use a small tatto cup and very rarely have i ever seen them empty (from dehydrating.) plan to keep a few with a dish, a few without, and varying degress of moisture...
yea, thats what the guy i bought them from thought to. i used to have a fairly high death rate due to drying them (slings in general.) out to much for that and i think i may have overcorrected with this species anyway, i have never had any others die off en mass with this set up.. i think i...
i think the biggest mistake new keepers make is just worrying too much. it all looks fine to me. i agree with andrewclayton that the enclosure is bigger than you really need, but there’s no real reason you can’t use a bigger one if you want. as long as the spider can find the water dish and the...
about 2 months ago i bought 30 of these wee ity bity tiny slings and i have killed almost all of them. i normally have 90%+ success raising the wee little ones but these were only about 10%. do you generally find these to be less hardy than other slings? how do you keep them? i keep all my...