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Got a good look at my parahybana sling which usually hides. I noticed something looked odd on her, and thought a bit of a previous molt got stuck. Then used a light. The poor spider actually lacked the entire exoskeleton, just a glass like substance on her, underneath the piece of carapace...

At the moment my petstore seem to have started having big crickets (they grow), and I still got a tiny sling, so I have been feeding it legs. Ive crushed the head of a cricket, fed it to my LP sling, which eats them asap, and the hopper legs to my tiny H. columbia sp. Big. When is it time to...

I noticed my biggest feeder had killed the smalled one, the one intended for the small sling... So prekilled food seems to be the safe option.

Ive bought some *small* crickets of approriate small size for my dwarf tarantula sling, is it advisable to prekill even those really tiny ones before feeding them to an tarantula? Or do it just make a mess, as I'm fearing?

Saw it mentioned on wikipedia Amblypygi might be social. Anyone With experience from captive specimens about this?

It's weird, but the sling was unmoving when I thought it dead, and oddly coloured. It did not react when i breathed or tapped the container, so I was sure it was gone... Now it escavated about 50% of the cocofiber, and spun an giantic web! Do these spiders og catatonic often? Not heard of that...

Just got a BIG suprise. A small Hapalopus sp. Colombia big I thought died a week ago, now is alive! :) Tbh It's lucky I didnt go bury it, didn't have time, and was looking at the small box now, so I just fed it a cricket leg and water. It have grown, what I though was it dying, must have been a...

MY L. parahybana sling seem to dig down or drag all it's food deep into its burrow, I know this is fairly common. But when do this mean I need to worry about that little spider living on top of it's own junk?

Mealworms is those 5-6 cm long ones the petshops sell, right? the Shop told me no tarantulas they had, actually ate any worms. Is that common?

I am considering what to start up as feeders. Atm i got two slings: one L. parahybana on a feeding strike, and a small, small hapalopus sp. colombia 'big'. What makes good feeder colonies for dwarf species, if I start collect them?

Food for a swimming spider? What about Triops? 3 inches size on some species.

Thanks, got the temperature up now. I wonder if it's been buried for weeks due to temp? I can actually see it if i lift up the box, it's at the bottom, and alive. Just not feeding; should I actually react outside keeping temperature?

What temperature is ok for LP, and when do i need to move a LP sling into an hotter room? I realized my LP sling was places a bit close to an cold window, where the temperature dropped to 14-15c when it was cold outside, and moved the box to an warmer place. is 18-19 ok? or do it need heat lamp...

Will it work for any size slings, up to spiders with leg span of 2 - 2.5cm too?

Is there some good source of small feeder animals for slings? I am wondering about starting up a colony of food animals for slings, to get tiny feeders, what do you guys suggest?

Got a question about Lasiodora parahybana slings. I got one 1.5cm, and it's atm been burrowed into the coco for 2-3 weeks. I have tried feeding semiliving/twitching tiny crickets, hoping it feeds in the night, but I'm unsure. What do you do with small burrowing spiders?

I have seen it mentioned that some only accepts small feeders. Is there some system behind what species which accepts only small feeders, or is there just individual differences from spider to spider?

Looking at it, the legs of the spider is goners, all of them. It got 3 mm of "good legs", and all 8 of them from that points looks weird, thin, odd discoloured "sausages". Looks like it ripped apart its feet getting loose, or it had an foot infection. All 8 legs is broken/snapped.

the position is similar to the molt position of a damselfly, sitting squarely on bark, dangling out of the back of it's old skin. What you see is all there is to see; small feets pointing in direction of the old thorax shell, all old feets sitting on bark, spider is dangling freely in air. The...

great… Anyway, it sits entirely on the cork, so i could move the moistened gunk coco out, and added dry one. Its in dry conditions now… I am not fond of moving a spider in this way while molting. Since I only added water after 4 days with no visible progress.. Is it unheard of for spiders to...