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How exciting! Thank you for your expertise!

My apologies.

In support of the hypothesis offered above, my Ts always have a constant supply of water and I've never had any of them stop for a drink mid-meal.

This is a 2.5 inch little one, and while I feel like I'm seeing the hint of spermathecae, I'd appreciate some extra opinions to be sure I'm not just seeing what I want to see. Hopefully the next molt will be more conclusive.

I can't answer your question about flies, but in response to your question about mealworms: Practically forever. I only use mealworms as feeders and haven't had any issues over the past few years.

I'll add my approval to all those above. My first sling was also a 3/4" pulchripes, and she grew to about 2.25" within the first year. I had already been caring for an adult for about a year and a half at that point, so I was already pretty familiar with basic care. I'm glad I started with an...

Sure thing! Owning a tarantula is so different from any other animal that most people are familiar with, and it took me a long time to get comfortable with their habits. I was on edge for my first month as a tarantula owner just because I couldn't visibly see my tarantula breathing. :rolleyes...

That's totally normal. It could be another couple of days before your tarantula is ready to eat again--the fangs, like the rest of the body, need to harden. If you can get a glimpse of the fangs, check the color. If they're white or red, it will be a couple more days. When they are black, the...

As long as you've got it at proper temperatures and it has a water dish, it ought to be fine. Now it's just a waiting game to see whether it molt or eats first.

Hope you enjoy! They're pretty nutty and delicious.

I do recycle my substrate, but only into the new enclosure for the same spider. When I rehouse, I mix the current substrate in with enough new substrate to fill the larger enclosure, the goal being that the tarantula feels a little more comfortable being introduced into an enclosure that already...

Great, thanks for your input! Hopefully there is a GBB in my future. :D

Ha! So I should just try to work around it as best as possible? How do you deal with a constantly covered water dish? Do you drop water on the webbing?

I'm also planning to get a GBB soon--thanks for asking this question. @Ellenantula, did you find that pretty much all the space above the substrate got filled up with webbing? Or would leaving a couple of inches between the anchor points and the lid give a little more space to make husbandry...

For my mealworms, I use oatmeal for the substrate and feed them carrots. Kibble sounds like a cheap and easy feeder for folks who have to buy it anyway, but I personally would shy away because I also use my mealworm colony as people food. If you've got loads of extra mealworms, go do yourself a...

I have an N. chromatus that still burrows now at about 2.5". It's actually pretty awesome because the inside of the burrow is visible from three sides of the enclosure and gives me a neat little window into what it's doing in there (spoiler alert: nothing. It's doing nothing. But still cool to...

I agree with all of the above and will add that I don't place my enclosures along an exterior wall. Temperatures there are likely to fluctuate more and, depending on the weather, could be drastically different from the rest of the room. Being in PA, this might be something good to consider...

Call me lame, but I think G. porteri is great to have in a collection that's just getting started. My porteri--with her mood swings and weird eating habits and pet-rockness--was the perfect teacher for understanding that a tarantula knows what it's doing and will continue to do what it's doing...

I work in hospitality, so I've seen a fair amount of bedbug issues play out, and I got some input from my entomologist boyfriend on this. The good thing about bedbugs is that they aren't a safety issue for people or tarantulas. They don't feed on arthropods, so your Ts would have nothing to...

The last time my porteri molted, I was walking by with my dinner plate and happened to see that her carapace had popped. I just sat down and ate right there--so cool! :)