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It happens occasionally. I had a male G. rosea RCF pull the same trick, though I never made an attempt to breed him. That's the part of this particular story that surprises me the most - that he was able to mate after his postultimate molt, and that he was viable. My experience has been that...

Sure, this happens. I've had a B. albopilosum that was grumpy as hell - threat posture, kicked hairs, the whole nine yards. I've also had an adult, female P. chordatus that was totally docile - easy to handle, totally laid back, etc. I've had G. rosea that kick hairs or are easily agitated...

I had several large, female T. blondi many years back (although, perhaps they were actually T. stirmi, no way to know now i suppose). I never got much urticating hair actually kicked at me, but one day I was upping the humidity in one of their tanks. My usual method is simply to add some water...

Small update: still not 100% sure on what exactly is going on with her leg, but nothing has spread further, and was finally able to obtain some gentian violet, which I applied to the whitish patches on the coxa of that leg. She continues to eat very well, 6 large crickets in the past week, so...

Actually, in my experience, G. rosea are among the most successful Ts as far as males pulling off post-ultimate molts. I've had several over the years that have done so, including one who did it twice (he molted 2X after maturity). He lived for 5-6 years as a mature/post-mature male. I've...

So, not used to having to ask for much in the way of advice, however I've simply never had this issue before. Yesterday when I was doing routine maintenance I could tell there was something off about my adult female P. antinous. In terms of activity/eating, she's completely normal and not...

Yep - and he kept yelling, "Stellllaaaaa!" Seriously though, I didn't consider it a nightmare - I actually thought it was a pretty cool dream. I don't think I felt that, in the dream, the temper of real OBTs had transferred over to the gigantic one. Or perhaps my subconscious simply felt OBTs...

Yes - this. I was unclear in the way in which it was stated - T. blondi exist but I've not seen any being sold because in fact what we've been buying and selling is actually a different member of the genus. That is different, however, from the situation with C. crawshayi (now P. muticus if I'm...

[Preface: Have already searched and read a number of threads on the subject of G. rosea nomenclature. This thread is branching off of that] So, having been out of the hobby since 2009 or so, I have missed a few changes. T. blondi is not T. blondi anymore, C. crawshayi is not C. crawshayi...

Identifying between extremely similar-looking species from pictures alone is pretty inexact. If whoever sold you the T can't provide the species with certainty, I would recommend not breeding at all. Is there a publicly-available key this species? For the characteristic that don't require a...

Had a dream once, many years ago, that I came home from work one night and there was a human-sized OBT sitting in my recliner, drinking a beer.

Yeah....this is why species like that, for me anyway, always get watered through the slats in the top of the lid and fed through a trapdoor. I don't envy you your predicament but glad both you and the T survived your traumatizing experiences.

Years ago, I was at the Knoxville Zoo and they were having an Exotic Pets show/sale thing with different vendors there selling snakes, lizards, etc. There was one guy there selling Ts and he had several OBTs in deli cups labeled as Mexican Red Knees. I argued with him for about 5 minutes about...

While it's true that a rogue cricket can cause problems for a molting T, it's really only once the spider is actually in the act or immediately after, before the new cuticle has hardened. Typically, if you adopt the rule of "no crickets in the tank for longer than 24 hours" you'll be fine. I...

Even before owning Ts, I have never been a big bug-stomper. That said, I will still kill insects or arachnids that fall into the following categories: 1) Disease-spreaders and parasites (Ticks, Mosquitoes, Fleas) 2) Home invaders/sanitation concerns (Ants, German cockroaches) 3)...

This is really more of an issue with terminology than an actual variance. Do Ts perceive sound vibrations in the same way that we do? No. But what goes on inside your ear canal when you hear is that your eardrum and the associated parts are vibrating in response to sound waves. Our hearing...

So much to respond to on this one: - B. smithi is easy to care for and similar to rosehairs; possibly even easier. They can be hair flickers, and are a little more prone to skittishness than rosehairs, but for the most part are among the tamest of T species, much like most other Brachypelma...

If he was a mature male, and you've been gone for 6 months, it's entirely within the realm of possibility that he died of old age prior to your return. If your sister is ignorant of things like that, she may think she killed him and is hiding it from you. If I've misread you and it's not a...

What he said. Look at the pedipalps - you should see that they resemble boxing gloves rather than the regular appearance of the tarantula's feet.

I wish I had one that big. I had a dream once I was riding to work on a giant B. smithi... I feed mine crickets 95% of the time. Feed the crickets for a few days with Fluker's cricket food (the powder) and make sure they don't die quickly or do anything weird that might signal them as a bad...