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So, you need a permit to keep everything but a native spider. Fun stuff. Of course, you also need a permit to collect native invertebrates- but, you get that from Florida FWS. Eh, not that I particularly care, I'm not going to be in Florida much longer anyways. I don't think I'll bother with a...

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My G. pulchra fills its' water bowl daily.. lol I leave it like that for a few days just so it doesn't end up with substrate that's too wet from the total water bowl contents wicking into the substrate on a daily basis. It is annoying though, it's like great, now I look like a bad pet owner...

And, I didn't put the sphagnum like that, he's moving it up for some reason.

Hmm. I bet it would be pretty easy for me to add a lip to the enclosure with a sheet of acrylic and some silicone. Obviously, I will just have to do that with another enclosure and then rehouse him into that one. Mine isn't stressed at all either, he's happy as can be webbing like mad up there...

I've gotten all kinds of things shipped really crappy like that, but, fortunately not tarantulas. Somebody sent me a 200+ year old cast iron pan in a mailer like that. I had paid $20 for shipping and $200+ for the pan, more than enough to pack it well in a box. Instead, they got to refund me...

Pretty guy! P. rufilata is my favorite species. My next order is definitely going to include one. I've had one before, but, it's been quite a few years. What size zilla was your adult in? I've got a bunch of 12"X12"X15" Zillas sitting empty right now just waiting on slings to grow up.. lol I've...

So, from what I understood, P. regalis slings tend to hang out lower in the enclosure and behind cork bark. I have my 1" or so sling housed in a 4X4X6" Amac box. The cork bark piece is leaning against the wall of the enclosure and the top of the cork bark is about 1.5" from the top of the...

Next time I rehouse I'll try to remember to let you know whether or not that's what it did. It's webbed down as far as I can see with the flashlight, but, unfortunately that's not very far as the tunnel changes directions to go under the corkbark half tube. It's been hard to keep an eye on it as...

I have a sling that has built a tube web down the length of a piece of cork bark and appears to also have a tunnel. Mine is very similar to my psalmo slings. Though, not sure what it'll do as an adult. As a sling, mine has been very secretive. I've seen the toes sticking out of the web tube a...

There isn't much you can do if it had a bad molt. Unfortunately, all you can really do is provide it with water and wait and see. I'm not sure if it will make you feel better, but, as they get bigger, they take longer to harden up after a molt, this varies a bit by species. If you are used to...

If you feel like you're going to stick with one, just buy feeders. Maintaining the feeders is more work than the tarantulas. If you find you really like keeping tarantulas and feel like your going to get a lot more, at that point start experimenting with feeders. Mealworms are easy, but...

I think there are a lot of assumptions about people who keep tarantulas- but, as a group we're pretty diverse psychologically. You get a bunch of different types of tarantulas keepers- I feel like these are the types people assume exist: 1. the narcissist- this person assumes that pictures of...

Juvenile care is a lot more like the adult tarantula care which can take away a lot of confusion. Some tiny slings need to be kept a bit moister than you would ever keep a juvenile or adult and there is a very fine line to walk between enough and a disastrous swampy-killer-moldfest. A juvenile...

A molt should confirm, should end up pretty red after a molt. If he/she ends up staying the same color, then I'd wonder if you have Tliltocatl verdezi because it has a similar facial marking to B emilia, but, no red..

I keep all my small enclosures inside of larger enclosures. Petco has their aquariums on sale right now. I keep my sling enclosures grouped in 10 gallon aquariums with the heavy duty mesh lids.

It could be that somebody produced a a bunch and then tried to hold out to sell them on their own. They may have just reached their personal tipping point where they were going to have do a hundred rehousings and decided to just wholesale. Breeders pretty much have to sell to larger operations...

My 0.25" B. hamorii that I've had for 6 weeks molted- to become almost a .5" hamorii.. lol Now instead of being all pink, he has a smidge of black on the abdomen.

I bought a small T. epicureanum last week that decided to try to molt on the way home from the pet shop. He'd been living in a tiny, dry delicup with no water bowl for months and then had a two hour ride home. Anyhow, he popped his carapace and then made no progress whatsoever for several hours...

So, I'm in a cool spot right now, I basically just rebought all of my favorite T's, so I'm fond of all of them. I haven't had the chance yet to accumulate freebies or sale priced slings. BUT, even so, one does rise above the rest. It's a G. pulchra I got recently from a pet owner rehoming-...