My T. Blondi was handable at that size. I held her several times. No threat displays, no kicking hairs. As she molted in my care, she started saying "NO" with full fang bared threat displays, and clouds of urticating hairs. Just because it seems docile NOW doesn't mean it will stay that way...
uh this thread is over a year old.
My First aggressive Ts were a 4 inch Pterinochilus Murinus RCF, a 3 inch Poecilotheria Regalis and 1.5 inch Lasidora Parahybana. All purchased at the same time.
I basically made the decision that if I was going to purchase a fast defensive T, their really...
Nice T!
My B. Smithi is a finicky eater. She won't eat roaches over a certain size.
Perfectly normal, with a caveat. Tarantulas are nocturnal creatures. They prefer warm, dark spaces like burrows. So, your T does do things, you just miss it cause your sleeping. Many times I have woken late at...
i've had a G. Aureostriata in one of those from 3/4s of an inch onward for several months now. They are a little big but the ts grow into them.
For water I simply wet pour water on the substrate near the burrow.
Pterinochilus Murinus
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Some Ceratogyrus Species
Avicularia Avicularia it you want to see a tube web
Out of the 4 I would start with C. Cyaneopubescens
don't worry about it. The calcium thing was a hypothesis* that got blown up, it never even had the chance to become a theory. There has been no evidence besides ancedotal. There are several posters that feed nothing but mice over many years. A good thread on the debate. Also.
*a hypothesis is...
99% of the time the spider you are looking at is NOT a brown recluse. Brown recluses are one of the most mis-identified spiders in america. In one month in Kansas I saw at least 6 radically different brown spiders referred to as the brown recluse, usually followed by a smack. This came from...
well there are at least 2 users (Soulsick and BLS Blondi) who have kept in excess of 20 T. Blondi for multiple years. These users feed mice, especially when the T is full grown, and haven't seen problems. There is also this post. This is why I want to see what the research says.
Yes. Pull it out of its cage, find a way to hold it steady, so it won't move. Preferably using the cupping method. Then poke it's chelicerae with a toothpick/small stick. Try to gently slide the toothpick between them. Then come back and tell me if the chelicerae move or not.
Typically a...
no.
Tarantulas can and have chewed through metal cage screen covers. A tarantula is not going to break a fang biting a mouse. Tarantulas in nature defend themselves quite well from mice and rodents. See pages 145 and 146 of the Tarantula Keepers Guide.
The breaking of a fang does NOT...
I knew when I had kept an A. Avicularia, a G. Pulchra, and a G. Aureostriata. My next 3 Ts were a 4 inch P. Murinus, a 3 inch P. Regalis, and a 1.5 inch L. Parahybana.
Old worlders are NOT boogie-men, or bite happy witch-harpies from hell. They are spiders that prefer to be left alone to do...
Most internet caresheets (are crap) seem to say docile but nervous simply because the genus is aphonopelma, a known docile genus. The T books I have read, many posts on this site, and my own experiences like ones I have seen in pet stores have led me to beleive this species is semi-defensive...
easy. Some people measure body size, not legspan, because it is a more accurate description of size. Others measure along leg 1 to IV on the same side rather then diagonally from leg 1 on one side to leg IV on the other side.
Others measure the tarantula in normal sitting position, and round...
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