advice needed please

[Matt<3Ts]

@Lady Lilith for my 2 pokies enclosures, I keep everything dry with a water dish. Although I've read that some keppers mist theirs occasionally. Both of my pokies are around 1.5inches and doing fine so far. For avics, I don't own any of them so not really sure.

 

[Enn49]

I've been raising tarantulas for 19 years and there's so much I haven't delt with yet.

I've only been keeping Ts for 2 years but I know from keeping snakes that there is just too much to learn about them to ever be able to say you know it all

 

[Lady Lilith]

@Nunua I'm sorry I can't help, it's not something I've come across before.

NO worries, all suggestions are appreciated

 

[Lady Lilith]

I've been raising tarantulas for 19 years and there's so much I haven't delt with yet.

and let us not forget how individual different T personalities are. Picklez isn't the eater most LP's are, and my OBT sling has built a funnel web in a burrow but she likes to sit at the entrance and watch the goings on in my office. I read Stan's book like it's a bible, but still find some situations, like with the pedicel issue, that baffles me. I'm grateful to have this forum and you all to consult with Thanks to all who replied

 

[Scoolman]

The pedicile is exceptionally narrow and the only thing attaching the abdomen to the cephalothorax. An overly engorged abdomen greatly increases the risk of injury. Your T looks normal, fat, but normal.

 

[Lady Lilith]

The pedicile is exceptionally narrow and the only thing attaching the abdomen to the cephalothorax. An overly engorged abdomen greatly increases the risk of injury. Your T looks normal, fat, but normal.

Thank you. Really? You think she's a wee fat? I thought she was normal for an LP. I don't see her eat that often. Must be she's got a thyroid problem Anyway thank you. I'm not sure if I should reduce feeding, as she doesn't eat that often anyway. More often than not if I introduce a Dubia or a cricket she scurries away from it and later during a tank spot cleaning I'll find same said roach snuggled in between the glass and the water dish, untouched. Why she's as big as she is I don't know. She's not ready for a molt I don't think, and she's always been big that way. I thank you for your reply and will watch more carefully her eating habits. It's nice to have another lovely lady with a big ole butt in the house. Phat bottom girls they make the rockin world go round ya know

 

[Scoolman]

Mine behaves the same way