Recent content by Steph

Great news! My little spider has finally emerged from her burrow. As I mentioned Sat., she molted the middle of last week, and as always, I've continued spritzing her enclosure and keeping her little water bowl (kinda small to call it a bowl, but whatever) filled; and I check everyday to see...

Thanks so much, Nyx. I've been wondering if smaller juveniles do harden up faster than an adult. I will take your advice and put a fresh fruit fly in with the sling in the morning. I figure by now she's gotta be more than a tad hungry. We're also having an unusually mild winter this year (I'm in...

Hello, I posted about the 3rd week of Jan reporting that my Brachypelma smithii sling (hatched late fall/early winter of 2013) had closed herself (I know, technically still to early to know gender) off in her burrow around Jan 1st, and being a 1st-time baby T owner, I was more than a bit curious...

Yeah, when the sling doesn't have herself closed off, it's fun to see the changes she makes in the substrate, like widening the tunnel after she's molted to give herself more leg room. She's quite the little excavator. I'm still amazed at how much digging she can do in a 24-hour period. I'm...

Thanks so much for sharing that info. I sure do love this forum, I learn so much, and people are so helpful. I won't try to dig her up myself, I'll just continue to provide her water. Thank you!

Yeah, I've had them quite a while, and they've grown quite a bit. Some of the smaller individuals in the group aren't quite that big yet, but there are maybe 4 or 5 that are the big ones. When my sling is eating, it's fun to watch her grab hold of 'em

I understand. And I'm no help to tell you the scientific name of the fruit flies I get from Jamie's Tarantulas as I don't remember their name. If you're curious, I believe their website is jamiestarantulas.com.

I went on the size suggestions given by the folks I got the sling from for putting that size baby into. Really awkward sentence there, sorry. So that's something to consider. Thank you see also my response to DTG.

The substrate is about 2" thick and since I got the sling around last May, she's been kept in the same location as she is now and doing quite well. You mentioned cold spells. I live in northern Idaho; approximately 3-4 weeks ago we had the coldest temps of the winter so far (getting to around...

Actually the fruit flies the sling's been eating (and handling quite adeptly) are about half an inch long. She takes 'em w/gusto

i have a Brachypelma smithii that is a little over a year old that I have in an enclosure that is 4"x4"x5" (it's the mid-sized box that Jamie's Tarantulas sells). My question is, I don't know if he/she (I usually refer to her as a female) has gotten herself in a bad spot or not. At least 2-3...

Hi Steph, thanks so much for the suggestions you gave. Yesterday I noticed Sophie (that's her name) had, in the previous 24-hour period, done some interesting excavation in her burrow. (That'd be about 3 1/2 days post molt). She'd completely widened the entire entrance to the borrow, along with...

Hello, it's been a few weeks since I checked in. About a month ago I got a Brachypelma smithi sling (about 3/4" in size) and we've been getting along well. She (I know it's too early to tell, but I'm hoping its a female) molted about 3 days ago and all seems to have gone well during that...

That's a really good pic, I take it that's your suntiger baby? His/her legs are long. Kinda analogous to a young puppy with oversize feet, till they grow into them. Yeah, I'm kinda hooked on this T-keeping pastime. I'd really like a Grammastola pulchra, but the only 3 I can find are not babies...

Thanks for the instructions, I will put that in my Saved Messages folder. And I love the pics of your babies :) I get a really good idea as to what that species looks like. You mentioned having a P irmina. That's Psalmopoeus irmina, the Venezuelan Suntiger right? How is he/she behaviorally...