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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timc" data-source="post: 199843" data-attributes="member: 4054"><p>Completely same page. Lost me first versi (Avicularia at the time) years ago.and it really turned me off to keeping them. I did my research and still ended up losing the sling. What part of my problem was a lot of the information, especially at the time, was just described in text and there wasn’t a lot of good photo documentation to follow. Looking back, my ventilation could have been better, and I probably had too much moss in the enclosure causing stuffy conditions. I was one of those people 12-13 years ago who just thought they were super fragile, but really it was my fault. Since I got back on that horse, about 7 years ago I haven’t had an issue, but it took a lot of reading. What I like about your post is it very succinctly outlines the correct way to care for these animals without a lot of fat that could otherwise be trimmed. Like you said, take care of the basics and everything else falls into place.</p></blockquote><p></p>