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I have both as slings and your decision should really depend on what you expect out of the animals. The GBB is much easier to feed. It is a voracious predator that will hunt down prey. Drop and forget. The CV is very picky. I have to feed it fruit flies. It won’t eat anything else. Not prekilled...

B. Albopilosum is the one that I chose to get back into the hobby some months back. The slings are cheap, the spider is quite active and has a great feeding response. It is also quite docile, although with all Tarantulas, do not handle the animal.

I have had my GBB sling for a few months. Got back into the hobby with one. Great spider to watch grow. Mine has grown quite a bit and is very chill.

Tallahassee here. Might as well be a world away

I usually release a swarm of about 7-10 into the enclosure. They are gone by the next day. I have seen it grab multiples because they are like gnats I usually release about 10 inside the enclosure for it to hunt down. I’ve seen it take 3 at at time. They are like gnats even to the sling. Gone...

My Versicolor Sling is that size. If yours eats crickets, consider yourself lucky. Mine only eats flightless fruit flies. It loves it when I release a small swarm of them into it’s enclosure to hunt down one by one!

I’m sorry to hear about your loss. I have wanted one of those slings for a while.

If it were me in that situation, I would try to rub the white spot with a warm water q tip just in case, then try to give it some water.

I’m sorry I didn’t see the curled up front legs due to the substrate color and the size of the pic on my telephone.

Looks like you may have a pre molt on your hands to me. My B. Hamorii sling is in pre molt and stands exactly like that.

There have been theories brought up in recent years regarding that the spinal nerve column may have a very important role in human consciousness itself and that the brain may be have less importantance than previously thought. There is something to that ‘bundle and jumble’ of nerves. We already...

What a great topic! I read all the posts and then found all of the old threads and read through them as well. From my experiences in life most of the population has a very closed view of how conscious life should be. It’s not until one has an experience that takes the blinders off-in a few...

When I was a teenager in the 1990’s I owned a B. Smithi. I had repurposed a 20 gallon fish tank and knew nothing about the species aside from it was from Mexico, and you fed it crickets and kept a water dish with a sponge. Sometimes you adapted a snake hide for it to use. Little did I know that...

5 slings as I recently only got back into the hobby a few months ago.

I encountered it again with my A Genic sling yesterday where I placed two small crickets into its enclosure about 30 mins apart. It had dropped the first one and went over and picked it back up and kicked hairs at the second. The cricket definitely slowed down from crawling around and seemed...

I have observed my B. Hamorii sling kick hairs at small cricket prey items and they trend to go into a swaying motion when inside the area. It doesn’t seem to last very long before the prey goes back to normal. What have you witnessed from prey items being affected by urticating hairs?

Acanthoscurria geniculata sling Coming in a few days! Ready for the eating machine.

I’ve tried that with roaches and headless mealworms, but they never get touched. I end up having to either throw them away or feed another one of my slings with it. My B. Hamorii sling loves day old dead mealworms from enclosure 4. :-)

I got a Carabena Versicolor sling as my fourth sling recently. My first arboreal T. Set up the enclosure so the cork hangs from the top. There is a gap between the cork bark and the floor about an inch or so. The issue is that the sling doesn’t notice feeders on the floor at all. So, then I try...

Thanks for the reply! I guess I will wait and see. It’s normally my best eater, so I’m sure that it’ll be ready in the next week or so.