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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steph" data-source="post: 27389" data-attributes="member: 3015">Hello, I appreciate you're letting me know about B. smithi's hardiness, even when they're just little buggers (pun intended).  Even tho the description of these slings was 3/4", not having seen a baby tarantula, I was still amazed when I unpacked mine at how little it seemed.  Do you know roughly w/ a sling of this size approx how many weeks or months old it is?  I asked the folks I got her from when the hatch date was, but I have as yet to hear back from them about that. And I'm glad I bought some 8" tongs when I got the spider, as small as the flightless fruit flies are that I also got, I figure the tongs will make it at least somewhat easier to handle the flies when I go to offer one to the sling. I got her on late Weds afternoon, so I thought I'd try the first feeding on Mon or Tues.</blockquote>