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Sorry for your loss, man. I just lost my MM albo about a month ago. But we do all we can for our bachelors to give them a good life post-molt.

Yeah, back to back like this is rough. But it isn't as bad knowing that with these two I did all I could. My T. albo lived 3 years post ultimate molt and my chromatus I did everything I could but there were some serious issues after the molt. I know a lot of spiders can survive after a traumatic...

Well my V. chromatus couldn't hold on anymore. She had a bad molt about 4 months ago and since then has oscillated between doing really normal all things considered and doing scarily bad other days. This last week was a bad one. I don't know what truly did her in, she's looked slightly impacted...

Gave my new auratum a water dish last night because she didn't have one in the enclosure she came with. Found her basically swimming in it this afternoon. I don't know how they were getting water to her in the shop she was living in, but whatever it was wasn't enough clearly. Glad she's here now.

Got a big female B. auratum yesterday, she was my consolation prize for losing my T. albo a couple weeks ago. Also my V. chromatus isn't doing so hot again, I feel like I'm gonna lose that spider every other week.

I wouldn't say this spider is super rare, I just don't see many people offering Grammostola iheringi. I have an adult female and she's the jewel of my collection. Stunning, always out, always up to something, great hunter but overall a gentle temperament. I got her at a local expo, the guy had...

Dang, I wish we could pin entire responses to the boards. I might try what you suggested on my own A. chalcodes and see how she reacts. Thanks for sharing your insight.

Got my B. boehmei's nasty water dish cleaned out today. She decided after living here for 3 years she'd start dumping dirt into it. No less than an hour after I cleaned it out and got it refilled she was halfway into it. Now all my Brachys are in their hides. It's funny, they all tend to do the...

Mine used to be a twitchy demon before she had a bad molt. Great hunter, bolted if I even barely nudged her enclosure, kicked hairs like it was nobody's business. Then she had a bad molt and now she's nothing like that at all. She's usually scrunched in a corner looking mighty pitiful. I feel...

If the fangs are black it's good for food. Personally I've waited like 2-3 weeks after a molt for a rehouse but that's just me, your spider should be fine for it by now.

It's an A. seemanni, it needs way more dirt than that. I've never met a seemanni that didn't burrow like it was nobody's business. As for eating, meh. That T isn't skinny so I wouldn't worry about that part too much.

Reminds me of what's going on with my B. hamorii right now. I think she's having problems retaining fluids. All I can say to you is make sure you top off that water dish as often as possible, that's what I'm trying to do.

Yeah you're not gonna find anyone here who will encourage handling. Every single person who replies is going to tell you not to, for good reason.

I mean no response in a death curl is a dead giveaway, but if you're still not sure, look at the abdomen. If it's deflated looking yeah it's dead.

Welp, it finally happened. My MM T. alboilosus died on me today. 1,256 days mature, hooked out in September of 2020. Got him the fall of 2019, he was my fifth tarantula. Not too sad about it though since I'm just impressed he made it so long.

This happened several days ago but I thought I'd share. I smelled something horrible in my T room the other day and looked like an idiot sniffng every enclosure to figure out where it was coming from. It was my V. chromatus, the one with the bad molt over Thanksgiving. She had killed a cricket...

If the spider itself doesn't smell now after being put into the enclosure, then I agree with everyone else. Just packed in some nasty container.

Is that her water dish, that lid? I'd give her something deeper that holds more, it sounds like she's not getting enough water.

My B. emilia finally molted yesterday! Upright molt too, my first time experiencing that. It all went great though.

Pro tip: When the general consensus is one thing, that's for a good reason. The consensus wouldn't be "Feed only when the fangs are fully black" if it was totally ok and normal to feed while they're still red.