Could we put together a size guide?

[Sycohearted]

I am always window shopping for T's and I'm embarrassed to say that when I see "1/2" or any measurement I am absolutely lost. Has anyone ever made a nice, detailed guide on T sizes with photos? Hopefully this doesn't get rude comments but I'm a visual learner.

 

[Arachnoclown]

I don't know what else anybody could do to better to describe the size. That would be 1/2".

 

[Arachnoclown]

 

[MassExodus]

I am always window shopping for T's and I'm embarrassed to say that when I see "1/2" or any measurement I am absolutely lost. Has anyone ever made a nice, detailed guide on T sizes with photos? Hopefully this doesn't get rude comments but I'm a visual learner.

Anything listed as 1/4" to 2" I consider a sling. 1/4" is tiny, the measurement is dls or diagonal leg span. So a 1/4" sling is the width of your pinky nail from tip of leg to tip of leg, diagonally across the spider. Its body will be much smaller. So at two inches dls, its two inches of leg span, its still a small tarantula. If I understood your question correctly. I remember when I was a noob and all the spiders I ordered were much smaller than I had imagined when they arrived. Used to piss me off to no end

 

[ilovebrachys]

I don't know what else anybody could do to better to describe the size. That would be 1/2".View attachment 38081

Have to love your direct approach @Arachnoclown ..

 

[Arachnoclown]

Have to love your direct approach @Arachnoclown ..

I dont know what else to say...figured everyone can read a ruler. Maybe they dont teach that in school anymore. I tried not to be rude...

 

[Rs50matt]

Most measurements are inaccurate but a rough ges

I dont know what else to say...figured everyone can read a ruler. Maybe they dont teach that in school anymore. I tried not to be rude...

It’s all you bloody Americans with you 18th century imperial system .

 

[Arachnoclown]

To take tarantula sizes and take pictures would mean nothing unless you had a ruler in the photograph...

Here's two examples one is 2" the other is 3"...which is which?? Need a ruler in the picture.
I think understanding the measurements of a ruler is the answer not a chart.

 

[Arachnoclown]

Most measurements are inaccurate but a rough ges


It’s all you bloody Americans with you 18th century imperial system .

That's where the OP is from...
They use to teach the metric scale when I was a kid too...I dont think they teach anything any more.

 

[Rs50matt]

That's where the OP is from...
They use to teach the metric scale when I was a kid too...I dont think they teach anything any more.

I’ll be honest I think now kids only learn how to pass an exam and the rest of school is a political bias. Subject for another thread thou

 

[nedaK]

That's where the OP is from...
They use to teach the metric scale when I was a kid too...I dont think they teach anything any more.

In my school I got this one math worksheet as homework and my dad saw me working on it the way we learned in school and he asked what the **** I was doing and then asked if my teacher was drunk.

 

[ilovebrachys]

In my school I got this one math worksheet as homework and my dad saw me working on it the way we learned in school and he asked what the **** I was doing and then asked if my teacher was drunk.

I like your dads attitude to modern learning @Kaden Alexander

 

[Hemolymph]

Anything listed as 1/4" to 2" I consider a sling. 1/4" is tiny, the measurement is dls or diagonal leg span. So a 1/4" sling is the width of your pinky nail from tip of leg to tip of leg, diagonally across the spider. Its body will be much smaller. So at two inches dls, its two inches of leg span, its still a small tarantula. If I understood your question correctly. I remember when I was a noob and all the spiders I ordered were much smaller than I had imagined when they arrived. Used to piss me off to no end

That is so,so true. I use to hate ordering a 1” sling and receiving a .25” one. That would piss me off. Now I don’t order online anymore, I’ve got to see my purchase.

 

[Tabitha]

I know what you mean, I have to actually look at a ruler before I really feel happy things online, i have this problem too, very much a visual learner.
I use an iPad for all my internet work, I actually bought an adhesive sticker printed with a ruler, I stuck that on one of the margins on the iPad so I always have a guide with me, i can never find Pens or scissors and rulers are no exception so the sticky ruler is always there easily in sight. It’s basic but it works.
But yes, ordering online can be sometimes a disappointment, much nicer to see the T before buying, I recently got a pulchra at “5-6cm dls” which would be true big only if I pressed it between two very heavy weights!

 

[Rs50matt]

That is so,so true. I use to hate ordering a 1” sling and receiving a .25” one. That would piss me off. Now I don’t order online anymore, I’ve got to see my purchase.

Nothing worse than expecting 6" but when it turns up it's barely juvenile

 

[Sycohearted]

Thank you to those who helped <3

 

[ilovebrachys]

The reason why women are so bad at parking is that their husbands tell them a certain thing is 6 inches and so they use that as a guide for reversing into spaces....

Disclaimer 1
I am just having a joke people, no offence intended
Disclaimer 2
I have 12inches but I don't use it as a rule
Disclaimer 3
If you haven't worked it out, Disclaimer 2 was also a joke

Great thread. I remember @Arachnoclown and his direct/to the point reply to a similar thread when somebody asked "how do you measure your Ts?" they got a picture of a ruler. It was funny!

@Phil you always give me a laugh

 

[Phil]

@Phil you always give me a laugh

I try to find fun in most things. the world is sh!t enough without adding to it. Not everyone gets my sense of humour but I know you do hun

 

[ilovebrachys]

I try to find fun in most things. the world is sh!t enough without adding to it. Not everyone gets my sense of humour but I know you do hun

totally!-great minds think alikeeverybody needs a laugh now and then -lighten up people

 

[Rs50matt]

I feel like @Phil is the uncle at a wedding who always has the really bad dad jokes but you laugh anyway and always go back to see him cos it’s never boring lol