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    Big trapdoor burrow

    Jajajja!! i was just thinking the same!! what happened? i found a trapdoor at my frontyard almost drown during a heavy rain here... but it is very small... about half an inch... now has the door and stuff done inside the enclosure i put it. When first found it showed a threat pose right away...
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    Following Tarantula tracks...

    Hello, after some time with T's now i'be become like the s.hoffmanni keeper here :) my garden is full of them... the thing is i found what i think it's a "trail" to other hoffmanni located right next to my parking but can't find the burrow, i only find silk all over the plants around (the...
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    Genus Sphaerobothria

    I like the dark black color! mine looks just like dark brown... do they change colors to dark when adult or something? the 4.5" female i have looks dark brown to me...
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    ...my first "garden found" tarantula...

    Nice picture! great T ! how big is she? The one i have here (the big one) is about 4.5" diagonal and the femur of all legs has a darker coloration than the entire tarantula (dark brown looking) i'll manage to ge some pics one of these days, she's very camera shy and nervous... :)
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    Oh yeah!

    Umm, what a good idea... but how to put the stick? is there pictures of that procedure?
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    crickets are to fast

    all tarantulas are truly hunters, they wait and finally gets the prey down... i have found that some type of roaches are fast enough to escape the first time but they are also very curious and ends up entering the t's burrow... I don't like crickets... they jump too much and stress the t's a...
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    ...my first "garden found" tarantula...

    :) in fact i'm kindda rescue brigade here because i live in a very well populated area with a very green garden... so all insects and stuff hides here. I have found dead tarantulas outside at the street and at the other houses entrances probably killed with some pesticide or crushed...
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    ...my first "garden found" tarantula...

    ...so you're planing to start a family with them :D i'm thinking the same with mine and see how it goes... i have an adult female (molted october 7) and two slings of about 2" also... one i think is male, grows faster and looks like male, we'll see... the other grows slower and seems female to...
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    ...my first "garden found" tarantula...

    ...i'm measuring tip from the front leg to tip of back, in diagonal, it might be 2.5" but the quick look is 2... "measured with the t. hanging at the side of the enclosure" they are quite nervous and run fast to the hide in case of any disturbance. They are very active at night and likes to...
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    ...my first "garden found" tarantula...

    ...it is an sphaerobothria hoffmanni, pretty well common all around the capital here in Costa Rica :)
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    ...my first "garden found" tarantula...

    Hi! Do you people remember the "small interesting spider" that i found at backyard? well... it's getting bigger :) here's a fresh picture at night... it's reaching the 2" by now after 3 molts. {D If someone want the full size pic. it can be downloaded here It's starting to show the...
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    too much moisture?

    ...i have one of those also.... i think you should add more ventilation holes... what i do is have one side with holes and one side without so there's both "climates" inside... make sure not to make the holes bigger than the tarantula, they climb... :)
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    Breeding Tarantulas?

    12 days.... about 2 weeks... umm ok... probably each spec. has different times them... this one isolated himself after molt for about a week webbing the entrance to the hide...
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    Breeding Tarantulas?

    Umm, ok... that's a good point... how to separate them if something goes wrong... i'll get that in mind, i'll have to wait at least for the male to mature or find a mature one outside... i have read they can "smell" the female? is that true? if that's a fact probably my house will be full of...
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    Breeding Tarantulas?

    Umm, ok, 3 to 4 weeks is very soon.... she hasn't eat since molted and it's about 15 days by now since the molt... refused to eat twice in a 5 days interval and webbed the entrance to the hide... i'll try feeding again tomorrow night since she was out yesterday around the water dish and corners...
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    Breeding Tarantulas?

    Hi! I have a question (maybe two) :) Since i have found that my backyard is like the Sphaerobothria Hoffmanni distribution zone for my entire neighborhood i was thinking about a breeding project... i have one confirmed female (molted october 7, 4.5") and two more small ones unsexed (one...
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    diy burrow

    wow... i was wondering how to do that... what a great idea!! the thing is how durable it is... maybe if doing some "compacting" the thing will last longer... or the T will try to improve it?
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    Babies...... heheheh :P

    WOW!!! That's a HUGE amount of t's!! you're gonna need like a room full of very small enclosures pretty soon! (and some huge amount of small food!) Congrats!!
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    Where's the water going?

    ...molting... well... after all the options i guess what's happening here is web pulling out the water... (or t. dumping it after 20mins...) but for some reason i think that's done with some purpose, maybe to increase humidity inside since all around the dish and very close to the t hiding is...
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    Where's the water going?

    Hello, quick question about water bowl: I have a 4 inch. sphaerobothria hoffmanni (yes, from my backyard also :) ) which seems to be doing something with the water bowl (dont know what yet) but for some reason the plastic container keeps drying itself every day... no holes on it, no high heat...
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