My Rose hair took a while to settle in. I put a hide in there for her, half-buried under some coco fiber. It took her weeks to finally settle in enough to use it. And even now she only runs into when I startle her. Mostly she sits behind it, grooming herself. My point is, you came to the right...
I used to work for a large well-known chain of pet stores. I spent years working there (unfortunately) and never saw anything like that. Maybe we just went through crickets too quickly for me to see that. Now we did occasionally get other beetle larvae in the shipments but nothing like that...
I have noticed the same thing on some of my slings. I figured it was the urticating hairs coming in, or the fact they are not showing their adult coloration yet. I assumed it would go away as they continued to grow. I could always be wrong though...
I just recently acquired a juvenile B. albopilosum as well and it has done the exact same thing! It has been barricaded in its hide ever since I got it, which was 3 weeks ago. When it first arrived, it had a bald spot on its abdomen which looked kind of dark so I assumed it was in pre-molt. It...
I have a G. pulchripes sling that has decided it doesn't like the lay out of its deli cup anymore. I had no idea such a small spider could move so much substrate! It has begun piling it up on side of the container and pushing it out of the air holes! Every morning I get up to check on it, I know...
I'm glad I don't have the only weird G. rosea. I guess I should have expected this from all the stories I have read about them, and from the posts I have seen on here. Thanks again for everyone's help. I really do appreciate it!
I do not see hooks and the pedipalps do not look like boxing gloves so I'm pretty sure she is a female. She has only done one lap around her enclosure today so she is probably just getting used to the enclosure, like most of you have said. Also, i noticed a little spot in the corner where she...
:happy: I may have already been bitten by this hobby. I am getting a couple more Ts tomorrow, which is kind of why I wanted to make sure everything was okay with Mephala, my G. rosea. I'm going to (hopefully) post pictures of everyone tomorrow!
Thanks for the reassurance everyone! I really appreciate it! She does have her own personality too. She has never given me the threat posture or flicked hairs. When I open her enclosure she actually slowly meanders over to me to see what's going on. She has really helped me get over my fear of...
Her substrate is kept dry. I read that moisture for them is pretty much a death sentence so she gets all the water she needs from her water bowl.
I'm glad it sounds like the walking is nothing to worry about. I know I read somewhere that T's should be inactive and if they are active it means...
Hi, I am pretty new to this but I got my first T, a G. rosea (surprised? No?), a couple weeks ago. She is about 4.5 inches and she has eaten successfully, and I'm positive she is a female. The breeder sexed her for me. I think she was a little dehydrated when I got her because her abdomen was a...
1. I wanted to get over my ridiculous fear of spiders. What better way than to get a pet spider?
2. I really love Brachypelma albopilosum. They are so hairy!
3. I really want an E. campestratus
4. Dream animal? Something awesome like the Lochness Monster.
5. Tattoos
Hi Everyone, I'm completely new to the boards and owning tarantulas. I have been terrified of spiders for most of my life, having panic attacks at the sight of them. But thanks to my friend's Grammostola rosea, Chile, I decided to get my own and get over my fear. I am now the proud caretaker of...
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