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Tough to say. At the beginning of the instar it ate regularly but largely stopped 3 years ago. It was still chasing prey when offered, curiously, but would usually back off and wander away after a while. Within those final 3 years it ate maybe 3 or 4 times, the last meal being at least a year...

Taken in the same enclosure with the same crappy phone camera 3.5 years later, haha. It doesn't even look much bigger, just marginally less chubby.

Hey guys, final update on this and it's been a rollercoaster. On the last day of April I found the sling in the "halfway death curl" position. You know, not fully curled but with legs on the way there. I assumed it was some sort of rare disorder which prevented the sling from molting and now...

No, I'm Russian and I'm not currently active in any T communities at all. :)

Hey guys, I remembered this thread while taking care of my Ts today and well, here's the update: since the last time I posted here, the sling ate once, just a couple of weeks ago. No, it still hasn't molted. It will be three years in November. It's probably an extreme example for sure, but let...

As I was cleaning my G. iheringi's water dish for the millionth time yesterday, I started musing on the possible reasons why this particular T always prefers to do its business in the dish at every opportunity, while none of my other Ts (that are large enough to have a dish) ever do that. And...

An update on Nevermolt: In a bizarre turn of events, it resumed eating yesterday! Now it's even fatter!.. and it still doesn't look like it's going to molt anytime soon. o_O

Meet my cute G. pulchra. It's a tiny little baby in its fifth or sixth instar, just old enough to start growing into those gorgeous velvety looks... and it hadn't molted since November. Now, some of you might rightly say that it's not uncommon. Pulchra aren't exactly known for rapid growth, and...

I don't care about Pokies or OW pet holes, but I do want a P. irminia. I'm not going to get one though, I don't consider it worth the potential trouble.

Great pics, but I still can't tell the difference between B. annitha and B. smithi, haha.

B. klaasi just finished molting.

GBB is on its back right now.

Thankfully mine acts nothing like a GBB. It does web a lot (but on the ground) and pounces on prey like it's starving, but other than that it's a very chill and calm T, very much unlike my GBB. My G. iheringi never even flicks hairs, while the GBB works that butt with both legs if I so much as...

At least among the species common in the hobby, it definitely is, by far.

Some do say so, yes. Others say G. pulchripes, and yet others say G. grossa (which is a mythical animal as far as I'm concerned, it being so rare in the hobby).

Recently I feel like I'm on this forum just to say "G. iheringi" in various threads, so here goes: G. iheringi. I don't think it gets as big as G. pulchripes or L. parahybana (and definitely not as big as Teraphosas), but it is definitely on the large side of the NW terrestrial spectrum.

Avicularia braunshauseni is the largest, I think. As for A. metallica, no idea.

G. pulchripes juvie molted while I was sleeping and gave me quite a scare. I saw it sitting on its molt and took the container out, which spooked the T a bit and it moved, dragging the molt with it. Obviously my heart immediately sank, but turns out it wasn't stuck after all, just held onto the...

I am lucky enough to live in the same city (and even practically in the same district) as one of the largest sellers/breeders in the country, and I never had to bother with postage, couriers and all that jazz.

I second this post in its entirety.