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Thank you all guys. SikaFlex is readily available I believe. There is a processing factory in my nearest city. Will check it out and go from there! Yeah. Just had a good read, ScrewFix sell the SikaFlex I need and it doesn't contain the additives.

Decided to make one of those natural backgrounds using foam and silicone and hoping someone can help me... This is one of the products i have seen in Screwfix. https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-general-purpose-silicone-sealant-black-310ml/2279h Another forum i read mentioned Acetoxy...

I wish you all the best, and hope you are as well as can be!

I gave up my spiders when i was 21, a link to a part of my childhood my father always encouraged (a respect for nature, an understanding of exotic creatures). He owned a market stall, that imported various delights, that, in the early 1980s were not subject to stringent customs control. Thus...

In premoult/not hungry states, Tarantulas will sometimes just bite prey and leave it. Probably to stop the prey bothering it while it moults or regains it's appetite. (Much in the same way i stick my fork in a sprout and decide wether i want to eat that, or my Roast Beef first)

P. Irminia has moulted at some point in the last 12 hours.....Or more accurately, the web-tunnel that eats crickets at night, has moulted :joyful:

I am wary of including 'natural decor' in some instances to minimise fall risk and crush damage (am I keeping spiders or playing DnD here? :dead:) . I'd love to add rock features for example, but even with the best intentions and foundations, i feel there may be a random factor through the...

No pictures here but the lovely grown on Phormictopus auratus has bulldozed a burrow in the deli cup it's in. So glad that it's settled in almost overnight!

For small slings, the chaps from The Spider Shop, mentioned the use of birthday candle holders. I use the above, and a mix of bottle caps and pill blister-packs, for water dishes.

Don't handle the T but consider how the following may allay your fears: Creating an environment the spider can thrive in, one that meets it's needs. Maintaining that same environment Watching and learning it's behaviour and habits. There's a high likelihood that through the observations and...

The two L. parahybana i've owned, have been the most active species for me. If active means slowly striding around the enclosure until it's time to sit still for a while. Currently have a 3cm sling that decides to reposition it's small water dish at every given opportunity.

I've had the 'kill it with fire' people see sense, when I explain that by all means do that...then deal with swarms of flies all over your food the minute it's uncovered. Depending on the poster, i just give them the facts or 'out meme' them. (Poignant topic tbh, as i post up 'educational'...

Yeah now i understand why :). Previously I've always had Ghost Mantis or at least some mantid nymphs, and doubled up feeding pin-heads and flies to both these and the slings... At present i have no mantids thus tried the mealworm diet on recommendation here. Absolutely spot on!

... aquisitions have taken to them. Even the ones i felt would only tackle fruit flies, which I was going to head out and purchase today... trying the chopped up worms as a stop-gap, but i feel may just rear the small ones on this food source now! What are your successes on these? Personally...

Thanks mate, i enjoy your contributions here :thumbsup: I very much agree with the early struggles for info, which is now neatly contained in a little illuminated box :droid:. . Indeed at 42 now, i feel my life has 'mellowed' enough to allow me to enjoy keeping T's again too. --- My young...

I'll freely admit, i wasn't ready for one even when I'd convinced myself i was :). I'd taken in a C. Lividium and was offered the OBT from a closing down, garden centre pet store. ... And tbh it was 'undersold' to me, while at the time (late 90s) the information i could gather just indicated...

I used to have a repurposed large faunarium i use for rehousing (and potential feeding mishaps)...even with care and attention, rehousing my juve OBT didn't go smoothly. To the point I'll be doing all rehousings inside a large storage tub from now on. Even flighty aboreals I've had, usually at...

Parents we're really supportive, my father imported lots of tropical produce, and sitting on the market stall as a child introduced me to all kinds of different creatures. Many of which would end up in a tank back home. Growing up i believe my parents let me keep pets to teach me some kind of...

Yeah I've used the term wrong in regarding the live food. They're just small crickets in this instance. Indeed the abdomen is of the size described, and appears to have the darkening patch that could indicate a moult? Thankyou everyone for the clarification.

Had one or two end up dead but untouched in the event my sling has eaten say two to three days earlier. I always remove and wait a good few days before offering again, at the moment i am treating this as an indicator of either simply 'full' or pre-moult. Anyway i'm presuming this is absolutely...