Recent content by bwhatch2

making noise? what noise was she making, don't think i have heard one make noise.

another great idea is to get a ton more tarantulas then you can spread your worry out more :)

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...

can't rescue them all but he did rescue that one....

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i still have aobut 70- adults i will work on cutting that in half soon.

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...

that's funny i was going to say about the same thing. welcome to the hobby and the forum @TarantulaMamma

i am always amused at how often we in the hobby say :‘Care sheets? Nah, they’re all wrong.’ Except, of course, the one we wrote. this one is good

i haven't actually tried this yet but.....im thinking if you soak them to their saturation point you should be able to cut them with scissors or shears depending on how thick it is.

does anybody have any suggestions how i can sort the wee little ones from the substrate. for larger spp i just use different sized sifters but these guys are so tiny that doesnt really work.