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Yes, they will take freshly killed food. I used to just pinch off cricket drumsticks (back legs) or cut other parts of bugs and just hand them to em with tweezers. If they didn’t take it I just left them in there for them to scavenge and removed what was left after a day.

Not a problem for either, I keep my spiders and birds in the same room. A single tarantulas hairs aren’t going to affect your birds unless you’re literally making it kick them into its immediate vicinity. The only issues I’ve encountered are having to wipe down/clean enclosures more often...

Not a mature male. So, it could be tapping for a perceived male (assuming its female) but I’ve found some of mine tap after/during grooming too. Also, sometimes when they get spooked, they run up and down really quickly which can also sort of sound like tapping.

Just pinch off a leg from a small cricket before you feed it to something else. It’s more than enough.

They start hunting/eating at 3i, if they’ve only molted twice, then you’ve got one more to go.

I wouldn't bother with a post ultimate molt; He'd be done for either way. Sucks. It seems to happen often with these long lived mature males.

Do you know how to tell if it's a mature male? If not, do you have pics of him from before that might show his palps or front legs clearly? Mature males will have tibial hooks under their first pair of legs and bulbs at the end of their palps. If it is indeed a mature male, they typically do...

At 13 hours I think it may be too late. Have any pics? Do you know if it's a mature male?

An adult would do well in the large or extra large, if they are furnished properly. You could even swing a medium too. It depends on you how much space you are willing to let her take up. I keep my big female in a 12x12x12 enclosure; it's more than enough space.

Points have been made, closing the hybrid thread.

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I too have huge problems with off leash visitors (in areas where animals must be on leash by law), and it seems to be particularly bad in my area. It is almost a daily occurrence. Now my dog isn't perfect. He has over stimulation issues, and has the brains and balls of an adolescent, so he's on...

Please note that we get many, many MANY constant requests to join the facebook group every day, and want to check each profile to make sure they're legit (we get a lot of fake spam accounts). Generally speaking, if you have a sparse profile with no indication of an interest in...

Secretly carry some treats in your pockets (or a toy, or whatever else that makes him jolly, if food isn't his thing), and randomly drop one as you approach to pet him. Eventually, whatever it is that is triggering his fear response to your approach will instead trigger happy feelings of...

No. That particular tarantula is still with me, and still occasionally has mushrooms growing in there. I've no doubt her burrow has all sorts of mold in there, as she chooses to pack boluses in there instead of dropping them outside. Here's one of my other enclosures, a communal. This juvenile...

Do the pictures show up now, or am I the only one? EDIT Nevermind, they're gone again. I'll keep trying.

I use this, I bought it for $10 dollars at a Chinese night market. I use my cellphone balanced precariously on the eyepiece to take photos. Not too bad for $10 :)

Nothing else you can do really, not knowing exactly what's wrong. That's the way a lot of things go with tarantulas sometimes. Mine died relatively soon after curling up like that, don't know exactly how long it took.

Still waiting on that pic. But, judging from your pics from the other thread, and the one in the first post of this thread, I don't think your spider is trying to molt, and might actually be dying. Looking at her, her legs are always curling under, even when upside down. Molting tarantulas don't...