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What species would be good for me?

Phil

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Slings for me are those that does not show their adult colors as yet. Then we have juvies when after the molt, their adult colors starts showing. Adults then are when they reach their expected average sizes. :)
In human terms.....sling = baby, Juvenile = troublesome teenager, adult = errrmmmm......adult
 

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Ts make absolutely no noise whatsoever. It's easy to forget they're there.
I've never been woken in the night by a T. I have heard them though. The other night i was rolling over and adjusting the pillows to fall back to sleep and heard a scrambling noise over on the dresser where they all are. That morning I saw the GBB had found one of the dubia roaches that had burrowed away from him. So that explained the scrambling noise :)
 

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I've never been woken in the night by a T. I have heard them though. The other night i was rolling over and adjusting the pillows to fall back to sleep and heard a scrambling noise over on the dresser where they all are. That morning I saw the GBB had found one of the dubia roaches that had burrowed away from him. So that explained the scrambling noise :)

It's pretty out of the norm to hear them. I have however heard Pedes very often trying to chew through plastic. I know some people experience this with Ts as well.
 

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I've never been woken in the night by a T. I have heard them though. The other night i was rolling over and adjusting the pillows to fall back to sleep and heard a scrambling noise over on the dresser where they all are. That morning I saw the GBB had found one of the dubia roaches that had burrowed away from him. So that explained the scrambling noise :)

lol it must be interesting to watch that
 

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I honestly have spent many happy hours watching my first dig and burrow, such busy little things, and they do grow more quickly then you
think they will (.5 slings at the time) Brachypelma albopilosum is always my personal recommendation as I just really love them. And they are easy to keep.That's the one they call the Honduran curlyhair, and it's often described as having a bad hair day. Mine has always been both calm and active and while it still burrows it stays close to the wall and I can see it nearly always.
(I placed an empty shipping vial in the center of the enclosure to 'force' the T to stay near the edges and its worked wonderfully ^*^)
 

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(I placed an empty shipping vial in the center of the enclosure to 'force' the T to stay near the edges and its worked wonderfully ^*^)

I've read about doing that. I'll have to try it with my Lemon patch and G. pulchripes. maybe some type of tube in the center capped off so it can't burrow down in the tube. We reuse the shipping vials to hold their molts for the research project my son is doing at school.
 

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I've read about doing that. I'll have to try it with my Lemon patch and G. pulchripes. maybe some type of tube in the center capped off so it can't burrow down in the tube. We reuse the shipping vials to hold their molts for the research project my son is doing at school.
any empty pharmacy bottle hun or even a small spice bottle :p just clean and seal them up real well ^^
 

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I'll do that for their next homes. Right now they're only 1/2-3/4" slings so they'll be in a small 2" square enclosure until they molt and grow a time or 2. All the bottles etc. i have are to large for those. They'll work well in the 4" enclosures they'll use as their 2nd home.
 


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