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  1. Sggatsmit

    A Seemani rehousing questions

    You can try the flood method. Tom Moran has a YouTube video of his attempt to flood out a C. lividum. It did not go particularly well and he ended up having to dig his T out, but some people apparently swear by the method.
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    Local Cobalt Blue Find

    I recently bought a CB in almost exactly these same conditions. She seemed full on depressed. Wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t even have a response when her lid was opened or food was given. She would just let a cricket walk all over her. She’s been in a new enclosure with 9” substrate and a starter hole...
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    Getting First T...Sling, sub-Adult, or mature specimen?

    Get one of each. You’re going to do that soon enough, anyway. I handle some of my new worlds, and there are many good Ts that are pretty easy to find for that purpose. If you can find it, my favorite dwarf is homoeomma sp red. Much more common, though, is my second-most handleable T, Aphonopelma...
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    Natural GBB enclosure design (using only wild ressources)

    Great looking enclosure. Love that wood - hope she’s the climber type and makes some use of it for you.
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    A. metallica dragging fangs

    I recently purchased a sub-adult Avicularia metallica, and I handle her for the first time today. She appears healthy by all accounts, with the exception of one small behavior I’ve not heard of before. She walked from hand to hand in a very docile manner. She was slower than I expected, with my...
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