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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Poec54" data-source="post: 40196" data-attributes="member: 3524">- Yes, unfortunately as nice as it looks, that cage can be a death trap for a terrestrial tarantula the way it's set up now.  Too many hard objects for the spider to fall on.- If you buy and own tarantulas, you need to be able to identify adult males.  I don't look for tibial spurs as about 30 genera don't have them.  Adult males are always skinny and leggy compared to females, I can almost always tell them by that alone (I've been doing this for 42 years).  The thing all of us need to know is to check the last palp segment for emboli, that's the reproduction organs.  They're shiny and red/black, folded under like a pocket knife.  Adult males don't have a normal tarsi on their palps.</blockquote>