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Message: <blockquote data-quote="octanejunkie" data-source="post: 134435" data-attributes="member: 3872">July 2018 updateAll slings have molted in our care since receiving them and appear to be doing well. Our G rosea was a local pet store purchase and remains the smallest and most timid of the three slings. This sling ia the most active burrower of all 4 Ts we've owned has the deepest burrow, all the way to the bottom of the enclosure which is where it spends most of it's time. Having only moulted once in our care, this sling ejected it's exo from the burrow immediately after moulting. Rarely do we see it topside. A decent eater, the prey items usually wander into it's burrow, it's not an agressive hunter like our B vagans.I tried so hard to get a pic that the T today that it retreated further into an overhead, cathedral-like chamber almost out of view, a but of it's abdomen is still visible here:<img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180729/42189c391349cb9e7aac77098c0b086a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The GBB from Jaimie's Tarantulas has molted twice and has more than trippled in size and used to have a somewhat small abdomen but now is looking very plump. It's behavior is also changing, it used to sit stoicly in it's web link, even when handling it's container, but now it's actively all over and has started webbing the ground. It's becoming a more aggressive eater/hunter, it seems like I could feed it twice a week but I don't. I spray the web once or twice a week since it upsided it's water dish twice already, here it is foraging:<img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180729/803e893f1b3c08e18275df8f542e7bd1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180729/4773c33489c30f700f4bc7a4e7d07e47.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180729/775e53aa44d6a216d2b753ce8c467bbd.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Purchased from LPS at the same time as our rosehair, our B vagans is the largest and most agressive eater of the three but is still somewhat skittish. This sling has molted twice, once at the bottom of it's burrow which I was not able to retrieve and most recently at to top of it's burrow, in about 2 hours time. This is by far the largest and hardiest of our slings and has also trippled in size since we aquired it. The only time this T has refused prey was in pre-molt, and it molted the very next day. The color and size changes between molts of this T are awesome and it's personality is evolving, almost posing for these pics today. Thinking about rehoming this one soon.<img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180729/6c8e7c3f6282ea52ea794b4a99f52f4a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180729/0eb23565e116c4df5bb88a466bf4e47f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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