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Heh, no worries -- the links are hard to see sometimes! After some more poking, I think I might have been thinking of this post, which has some pretty detailed pictures of the process. Still, if anybody has a video I'd be interested to see it!

Hi all, Would anybody happen to have a link handy to a video demonstration of the bag transfer method? I've poked around on the boards here and on YouTube with no luck. I have a vague feeling that I have seen such a video, but maybe I'm imagining it!

Whee, that does sound like an exciting rehoming experience! Good work keeping your calm -- I'm not sure I would have. (I got my second pokie -- a juvenile P. tigrinawesseli to add to my P. metallica sling -- two weeks ago and am looking forward to putting hir in a new home soon... wish me luck.)

I had an odd dream just last night. My little P. irminia escaped and I spent a lot of time trying to catch it again. Trouble was, it also kept getting bigger and bigger, and weirdly strong -- at one point I managed to put a plastic cup over it and then put a coffee cup on top to hold it down...

Thanks! Yes, we originally kept them in our bedroom, until more of them moved into bigger tanks. What is now the T room was going to be our guest bedroom -- but we don't get that many guests, anyway. Our parents can just sleep on the sofa. ;)

Happy spiderversary! You can see my full list of Ts on my profile; I'm not too fussed about rarity -- pretty colours is what I'm most interested in, as you might be able to tell. Space is a consideration, too: now that a lot of our babies are starting to grow up, the spider room is filling...

Exactly a year ago today, Mr S and I bought our first tarantula. We'd been talking about getting one for ages; we'd bought the Tarantula Keeper's Guide several months before and spent a lot of time with it. We finally tracked down a shop specialising in spiders and reptiles[1] and went just to...

My B. emilia finished moulting about an hour ago. She's still all translucent and stuff so I can't quite tell, but I think she might be getting a bit of adult colour now. I keep thinking my little vagans is turning darker, but that always turns out to be a trick of the light!

Hello all, I've had a couple of attempts so far at pairing my C. sellatus; unsuccessfully, so far -- neither of them seems to want to make a move. It doesn't help that my male is a very nervous sort, so he gets stressed out just by being moved into her tank. I'm wondering whether I could...

Today my little P. metallica finally moulted! And, a week ago, as a birthday gift to me, my T. cupreus. Who chewed his moult up as usual, so I've still no idea about sex. Definitely big enough to go in a proper tank now, though!

My little A. brocklehursti moulted yesterday: still little. Am rather hoping my P. metallica will go next!

Aww. That is just the cutest pile of blue fluff I've ever seen!

... aaand now the littler one has moulted, too. Yay, shiny blue spidies!

The bigger of my two versi slings moulted while we were away this weekend. Funny, since I was expecting the little one to go first -- she's gone very dark and has been webbing madly for the past couple of weeks. Oh well! Little Merlin looks to be about 2" now. Growing up!

Thanks very much, Diane! That's good to hear. Fingers crossed!

Thanks, Tom -- that's reassuring! (I have been obsessing about this too much recently: last night I dreamed about spiders mating. :rolleyes:)

Hi all, I'm currently gearing up for my first breeding project -- Cyriocosmus sellatus -- and I'm wondering about housing for my female. This is what she's in at the moment: This is about 7" long and 3" wide, and my male is in an identical container. I had a bigger tub I'd...

Just a little update, then... The pair of them have been sitting next to each other in our spider cabinet, she still in the cricket tub I bought her in. This morning when I peeked in, he was at the top of his burrow (first time I've seen him completely out since his maturing moult) and was...

It hasn't been hugely warm here the last couple of weeks, and our house tends to be chilly at any rate (room temp is usually in the mid 60s). True, I probably won't need the mat once it gets warmer, but for now it'll help. You never really know with English summers!

Thanks, all! I'm just waiting for a heat mat now so I can move her into her proper new home, and then move him in next to her. Now, time to do lots of reading! I can't find a lot of info about C. sellatus -- I imagine they'll be similar to other Cyriocosmus sp., but if anybody has any tips...