Are you a Tarantula hobbyist? If so, we invite you to join our community! Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your pets and enclosures and chat with other Tarantula enthusiasts. Sign up today!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thistles" data-source="post: 134803" data-attributes="member: 3949">OP, I was given a free Chaco yesterday. I think it was probably meant to be your daughter’s second tarantula. I’ll take a look today and try to sex it, and if you pay shipping I’ll send it to her.[USER=4548]@PanzoN88[/USER] is correct. Some just aren’t meant to make it. I’ve seen it in the eggsacs I’ve produced when I keep a few to rear. Most of the kids do great, but sometimes one kept in the same conditions just doesn’t make it.I doubt this caused the sling’s death, but you have it set up more like an arboreal than terrestrial. In the future, I would have a long, low enclosure for this species as it gets older, and turn it the other way and keep deep substrate for little slings with only a small bit of vertical airspace.</blockquote>