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My experience is, as someone else mentioned, that giving slings bigget enclosures makes it easier. It's tricky to get the conditions right in tiny vials, in my opinion. After I switched to larger enclosures, I have not had a single avic sling die on me. It could be for several reasons, of...

To be blunt, it looks like a death curl. I have seen really tiny slings molt that way up, but I find they usually don't take over night to do so. Leave him be for now, spiders do the Jesus thing from time to time.

As someone who fell in love with Avics and bought a ton of them when I was a newbie, I think you've made the right choice. I love Avics, but if I could do it all again, I would have saved myself the hearthache my inexperience cost me. So, good luck with your G.pulchripes baby, and welcome to...

I've had four avics die, but not for unknown reasons.. One was a MM, one came to me with nematodes, died less than a week later, one took a fall, and one died of what appears to be dehydration, despite a full waterdish. She didn't eat though, and sat in her web for weeks. I never put much...

Hopefully my husband would sell them, as he's the only one who dares to touch them.. XD

Aww, I have a blue scottish straight coming home in late feb. Cutsiewootsie!

Mine has completly dug up the little substrate hide I made her, along with the plants and she rolls her waterdish around. They're just strange..

It looks pretty decent..

There is a theory floating around on something called SADS. Do a search, there's a thread on it.

Phantom sacks can be just as large, as they are sometimes filled with unfertile eggs. Are you sure she was paired?

<EDIT> Some terrestrials do climb from time to time, so that's not a valid point. And she might climb while you're not around. You can never say never. Also, even if they aren't sharp or rough to your touch, it might still hurt her, and especially after a molt when she's more fragile...

I'm sorry, but I don't quite get what you're saying? Are you asking how long it takes before you know if she's bleeding?

As the children aren't going to handle the spider, I don't think it's going to be a problem. In my opinion the bristles are far less worrying and painfull than the bite of some of the old worlds, which doesn't have bristles. Neither are deadly, but a bite will create alot more trouble for you...

Is she bleeding? Meaning, does she leak any clear liquids? As for internal damage, it's my experience external damage is much worse with thse crittes, simply because of their rather "simple" anatomy. If she's not bleeding or showing any signs of weakness, leave her be and take it as a lesson...

I wouldn't know about that, but I do think Joe(CAK) might be sitting on a sac now, if I remember correctly. If it's not him, I am sure he knows who it is, I could have sworn he mentioned it.. Also, they are considered a dwarf species, so they don't grow very big. They keep something very...

Well then, unfortunatly I'm gonna be the partypooper here and say that it's too early to say. I know at least 5 different "species"(meaning they all grew into different colours and sizes) of avicularia who has that pattern and colour at that size. The pattern on the "abdomen" is very common in...

That I am. And I'm going to use that as my signature for everyone to see :D

Spiders don't love anything, they're predators, they will eat anything that flops in front of them with gusto. She may simply have eaten it because it was more annoying than the roach, because the bee was more intruding. You have proven nothing. As Chris rightly said, any T, regardless of it's...

As far as spiderbites, I have no idea, but I do know there's been some research on AIDS and races, and the studies showed that Scandinavian,Germans and some Brittish/Irish(basically meaning light hair, fair skin, blue eyes) people have a better defence against it, so it is defintely a very...

Ooooh, that's so precious!