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Mine is an adult female and while it webs a lot it's pretty much always visible, you just have to be a bit patient you'll be able to gaze at that copper heart butt all the time :D Wish I could take clear pictures of my slings (curse my lack of photography talent)

As someone who went through the same thing mid-Canadian winter cold front, I was lucky enough that my former orchid collecting hobby came in handy and I had a 400 watts metal halide lamp to use as a "space heater" while the landlord called the plumbing cavalry. I also covered several enclosures...

Damn, I guess mine switched personality with that B. hamorii of Grim Reaper(I think)? Lucky me :D

If you're looking for nice looking, calm arboreal, I would also suggest Ybyrapora diversipes (formerly listed under Avicularia). I have no idea if mine is an oddball or not, but it is incredibly calm, if prone to incredibly long fasts, I feel, for an arboreal. Attitude hasn't changed in several...

Grew a male Pseudhapalopus sp Blue to maturity in about 2 years. Would have been faster if it hadn't had longish fasts between molts. Mine didn't hide or burrow much though it did use its hide. Spazzy as a sling, but more curious as it reached adult size. Guess I lucked out on temperament, if...

My L. p kept filling the big water dish with webbed substrate, which wicked all the water out and made a soggy mess :meh:. I went back to bottle caps. There has to be 20 buried all over now :shifty:. It just molted, so I added yet another cap so she could re-hydrate. I watched. She drank for 10...

Ambient humidity matters for spiderlings more than for the adults in my limited experience. My basement apartment's ambient humidity lvl drops from very humid to dry as hell in a matter of a few hours as soon as heating kicks in winter and I have to be on top of watering substrate in sling...

She's about 3" dls and while I'm unimpressed with her color, she's a good eater and has a calm disposition, so I'll probably try my luck at another (hopefully bluer!) one at some point, lovely T :)

I only have one and mine is less skittish than my 2 GBBs by some margin. It's more likely to calmly walk into its hide than spaz out when I open the box it's in. Love the blue color on this one, bought mine because I also love blue, but it's pretty much dark gray all over, barely a blue sheen...

Am getting more interested in dwarf tarantulas myself, simply because space in my living room is limited so getting smaller spiders = more potential spiders. I have a few already and definitely support getting a C. elegans! Mine is a mini bundle of personality, throwing threat postures at 1/6th...

My LP, affectionately named "Fat Cow" by my arachnophobic mother, is about 5 inch DLS and one of her favorite thing to do is walk around the side of her sterilite tub and chew audibly on top edges under the locked lid and try to push it open. There's fang scratches everywhere and if the lid...

Like the others said, once you've rearranged the enclosure to make the T feel more secure and comfortable, wait at least a week before trying to feed it again so it can relax a little bit. No worries about the tarantula drowning, their hair are hydrophobic, they float and can swim. This is the...

You spider doesn't very plump at first glance, so pre-molt can probably be ruled out and it might just be stressed form the relocation or it might have molted before you acquired it and not ready to eat yet. It looks fine at fist glance so I wouldn't worry too much unless you see the abdomen...

If your tarantula is in pre-molt, it would not want to eat (it might actually not be able to eat at all past a certain point!) and so having a cricket in the enclosure at all might be stressful to it. Just remove the crickets and let the spider be for a little while. It takes a while for them to...

I have nowhere near the experience of boina, but I concur about the Habba Hut wood hide. They look awesome, but most wood I've ever tried aside form cork, has molded in moist condition any time I've tried to half-bury a piece. But! I've found a type of hide that has the same shape and size but...

I bought a C. elegans as a 3rd instar, it was incredibly tiny, yet when I first opened its mini cup to give it a cricket leg, it threw up a threat posture to let me know what was up :D Then it promptly webbed around the cup, made tunnels and vanished, only noticed in its tunnels next to the...

I have one LP at about 5" and no hair kicking ever except when disturbed by maintenance in heavy pre-molt. However, make sure whatever enclosure you are using doesn't have any mesh/screen vents because it will chew through them in a hurry. Only bald part of my LP is the chelicerae, it hangs...

That's what is mystifying me somewhat, she did eat 3 sizable meals, I think. The 2 hornworms were big (and after seeing her fangs go in, I can confirm they were also juicy) and were taken and so was one cricket. Problems with the stomach would make sense, just didn't notice mashed worm remains...

Alas, even when I put her on her back and put water on her mouth, she wouldn't drink and passed away ;_; She was one of my first Ts and will be remembered :( And I'll definitely keep any future pokie on more humid substrate.

I put her back in her enclosure with a water cap since her usual water dish is a bit too high in her state, I think she's barely holding on this morning, the legs twitch a bit but go back in the curl :( Here's pictures I took, one of her in the cricket keeper, but using a light while she was...