First time owner with a quick question

[Tarantula Trooper]

FYI, your T was so good looking that it inspired me to go out and get a GBB of my own. I just ran to the corner tarantula store and picked up a sling.

This hobby is like a heroin addiction. Just seeing somebody with a T makes you want to have more.

Glad I don't have a T store down the road!! It just wouldn't do!! Lol. GBBs are freaking awesome to raise! My girl I raised from a sling. She was stretched out before I took the pic and she's close to 6" DLS. Have a slightly smaller female as well! Need that guy!! Happy Spoodering!!

 

[TarantulaList]

I’m holding out for the right deal on a G. Pulchra. Or Quoriguai or whatever they’re called now.

Good choice. I recently got a G quirogai sling for $75 which I feel like was a pretty good deal for the species.

 

[Eighth Eye Blind]

Glad I don't have a T store down the road!!

Believe it or not, that wasn't a joke.

I'm about 15 minutes away from an excellent reptile rescue place that also sells T's in a storefront that funds the rescue efforts. They usually have about 20-40 different species in stock. They breed their own crickets and roaches so I'm there every two weeks to pick up feeders and drool over the slings.

Believe it even more or not, they also act as a spider hotel and watch people's T's while they're on vacation. You can get anything in America these days.

In addition to that, there's an aquatic rescue place about an hour from me that takes in "unsaleable" T's from pet stores. I've adopted a couple of young specimens from them who were regrowing a leg so the pet store just handed them over as damaged goods. I got two very nice animals for the price of a donation to the rescue.

Having these two places nearby is both a blessing and a curse, though. My wife now stops me every time I leave the house and asks "You're not going to the spider store, are you?" I have to lie to her a lot about that.

 

[Tarantula Trooper]

Believe it or not, that wasn't a joke.

I'm about 15 minutes away from an excellent reptile rescue place that also sells T's in a storefront that funds the rescue efforts. They usually have about 20-40 different species in stock. They breed their own crickets and roaches so I'm there every two weeks to pick up feeders and drool over the slings.

Believe it even more or not, they also act as a spider hotel and watch people's T's while they're on vacation. You can get anything in America these days.

In addition to that, there's an aquatic rescue place about an hour from me that takes in "unsaleable" T's from pet stores. I've adopted a couple of young specimens from them who were regrowing a leg so the pet store just handed them over as damaged goods. I got two very nice animals for the price of a donation to the rescue.

Having these two places nearby is both a blessing and a curse, though. My wife now stops me every time I leave the house and asks "You're not going to the spider store, are you?" I have to lie to her a lot about that.

Lol,lol, that's toooooo funny!! If something like that was near me I would be overrun by T's by now. I love to watch a T regrow limbs after a bad molt. My first M Balfori had a bad molt and watched her re grow 2 full legs and a pedipalp. Amazing creatures our T's!!