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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adraps11" data-source="post: 58861" data-attributes="member: 4220">I've owned a Texas Brown Tarantula for about a year and a half. She is a juvenile female, with a 2.5 inch leg span. She has been a great little pet, relatively calm and docile, like the Rose hair. I keep her in a five gallon tank with a hefty amount of vermiculite and Peat moss as substrate. I took an old flowerpot half and buried it in the substrate as a hide, she took to it immediately. She has been acting a bit strange recently, I've had her for over a year and she hasn't molted yet, but she has been out of her hide, crawling around a lot more, and laying down webbing wherever she walks. I recently cleaned the cage out, but kept everything in the same location, so as to reduce stress as much as possible. She'll eat ANYTHING within reason, and has a huge appetite. Lately she's been refusing food that she would usually take within seconds, so perhaps she is finally ready to molt? When I first got her, after she was shipped across the country in a packed jar, she ate a cricket in less than 5 minutes after introducing her to the new enclosure, so I don't think It's because I cleaned the cage. I did read that Aphonopelma Hentzi are slow growers. Her abdomen does appear darker underneath the hairs, it's not shrunken and she doesn't drag it whenever she walks.. My humidity levels and temps are good. I'm just a little anxious.</blockquote>