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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 38873" data-attributes="member: 3524">That's all w/c tarantulas, some are hardier than others.  That how dealers have kept them for the past 50 years.  Back when I was a broke college student in Michigan I used to maintain the spiders for a local importer and a local exotic pet store, in exchange for free crickets for my spider collection.  All were in 16 oz deli cups.  I'd put a spider in clean cup with a wet cottonball and a few crickets, clean the old cup, and put the next spider in that.   They'd have 50 to 100+ spiders, all NW terrestrials, and most would be kicking hairs.  It was a good deal for everyone, spiders included. Stirmi aren't drought tolerant, and can suffer more than other species,  But they usually bounce right back with a little TLC.  A local reptile breeder/importer near me gets in 10+ at a time, and over the last 2 years I've picked out the thinnest ones and bought them.  I've got 20 now myself (at wholesale) and all are doing great.  Put them in a cage with moist substrate, cross ventilation, a clean water bowl, and plenty of food, and they respond very well.  You are strongly advised to use disposable plastic bowls with Theraphosa, as you will find some of the most disgusting things in them.</blockquote>