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No, I sold him off instead. He did end up breeding though.

It depends a bit on which genera of T`s you`re keeping, but in general I think you will be fine with temperatures above 20 degrees.

18 degrees is definitely on the low side both for your tarantulas and yourself (in my opinion). If you cannot keep the room temperatures higher you might consider a heat mat for your Ts, but place it on the side of the enclosure and not underneath it.

Hmm, the ones I keep all spend the vast majority of their time down in their burrows, just like my other "baboons". I give them them all the same basic setup with lots of substrate, some cork bark angled in the right direction with the beginning of a burrow already dug out and a water dish.

P. murinus is a fossorial species though and in my experience they will burrow if provided with enough substrate.

I actually do think it is easier to start with an adult when it comes to OW fossorials, especially the African species that is being kept on dry substrate. Once the T is settled in its final enclosure you will not have to rehouse again for several years at least and the regular cage maintenance...

I would consider getting a subadult or adult specimen rather than a sling when the times comes. P. murinus have a very rapid growth rate and with a larger specimen you will not have to deal with rehousing it.

It might be fine, but personally I would not do it. "Pamphos" are clumsy climbers and being somewhat heavy they might easily injure themselves from a fall.

That enclosure opens in the front so it might be hard to get enough substrate in there. I would rehouse it into a cheap kritter keeper-style enclosure and use that Exo Terra for an arboreal species instead.

You should to be comfortable with digging out a very fast tarantula that is prone to running about when disturbed before considering getting a P. murinus. If housed correctly only the rehousings should be an issue though.

Perhaps it is just the picture, but is it very moist in there? I also cannot see any ventilation in your enclosure.

The infrastructure in Texas must be extremely poor if you have power outings and pipes bursting due to some snow and low temperatures. Pipes in cabins and cottages will on occasion burst here if people forget to turn off the water after spending the holidays there, but pipes bursting in...

Place the enclosures in a small room (for example the bathroom) and light up a bunch of candles. That should heat up the room I suppose, but don`t fall asleep and burn the house down :)

It´s the same species I believe.

He´s using a USB microscope from Somikon. It was fairly cheap (around 50 EUR) but it apparently does the trick as long as the moult is intact.

I will have to ask him and get back to you.

I just wait until I can sex them by eye, but a friend of mine uses a 5-250x microscope so 300-1200x will be more than sufficient.

In theory you can do it at any size if you have an intact moult and a stereoscopic microscope.

Moving Ts while they´re moulting is seldom a good idea, so that girl should have waited a bit before delivering it to you. Anyways, it if moulted nearly four weeks ago it should be no problem for you to remove the cork bark to check whether it is alive or not.

Slings cannot be "too fat" and you can safely continue to feed it until it decides to stop eating.