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I'm still an oldschool guy that uses a peat/vermiculite mix (light on the vermic) due to the sheer number of specimens I deal with (it's been cheaper than coco-fiber). A while back, I noticed folks mentioning that they'd thought it prudent to microwave or add boiling water to bulk peat to kill...

Cobalt slings mistake Non-success Although I've had sucessful matings of other species, this sac was from a WC H. lividum specimen kept at 81F for a few months. Sac was taken at 3 weeks and placed in a t-shirt hammoc in a large condiment jar, suspended over very moist vermic and turned...

ty Thanks for the advice, Inverted, & all. Okay, I'm going to assume my intact-looking-eggs-w/legs' blatant husks (very distinct/intact "legged-egg exoskeletons") represent 1st molt. There had been shriveled, husky bits and shards floating around in the clutch, and I didn't know if I were to...

anecdotes I see why some call GBB "semi-arboreal". My avics mostly web madly. My GBB climbs and webs almost like my avics. I've tried to spoil her with an array of enticing, terrestrial things but she tires of them and climbs and webs. The other day a few pinheads hatched and I shrugged it...

grats Very happy for you. I have nine (purchased) B. smithi of varied maturity, from slings thru juvie. Not as slow of growers as I might have thought! My experience with H. lividum at 82F is fetal-looking "eggs w/legs" on Jan. 18 and free-crawling, blue spiders w/ marked, furry abs still...

In the same situation I have 20 or so H. lividum that have now molted into spiderlings who can only just now flip themselves over efficiently and really crawl around. The shed exoskeletons look like empty eggs-w/legs. There used to be a few wispy bits of skin and husk around days before, when...

Thought I'd lucked up and had baby African Giants, but it turns out there had been 3 superworm beetles in the tank and they bred. Bummber, lol. I've never had either, so had to magnify them and observe them for a while. Sure enough, only legs on front & back, they never curl up, and they...

yes Like the last man mentioned, they're prone to elaborate webbing, but they're never just a "pet web". Great choice (a bit rare now, of course, too). Mine's skittish, but certainly not aggressive.

Sounds fine! My H. mac was so crazy it made me drop its rather large vial it came in right into a burrower/arboreal setup without any other method of transferring it. Unfortunately, I think my H. mac is my first loss (out of 30 Ts). My fault, I guess. I plucked an escape hole out of its...

Commercial cricket and roach feed will grow and maintain a breeding level of crickets with phenomenal results of longevity, lasts forever, and they typically sell the water polymer crystals, as well. It's usually supplemented with enough calcium as to be suitable for herps. Not too much for T's...

If it's not the pigment, then it's as Shadowblade says about the molt. I'm working on taking more consistent exposures of my pets, but I can assure you the spider had a distinct, metallic "copper top" prior to the stunningly more "rose" one following the molt, under any visible lighting...

results, already? Please excuse my ignorance: Okay, the crix are always on the pink side when I feed them a fish food diet high in red crustacean pigment (astaxanthene). My slings show up on the red side, as well, if for no other reason than being somewhat transparent. But, I got a G. rosea...

after crix gut-loaded w/Astaxanthene & a molt...?

Almost looks like that of a whale, in this pic, lol. H. lividum adult: Not the best resolution, but she almost seems to have protective "lashes". This is probably elementary to someone with a good textbook. --?

Ok. I'm willing to pay $200 - $250 for a P. metallica of virtually any size, from any very reputable dealer, right now. I went to this michael jacobi site and don't see how to buy one from where I was at. No, neither Botar nor Todd have them, though it was well within 6 mo. that both briefly had...

The above post hints to things I'm thinking about when one says their T responded to a mirror (posted just before that). Those primitive eyes could be programmed to identify specific (though limited) patterns of rough shape and movement, such as an engram specific to shadowey T front leg...

Interesting, and thanks! You know, I was thinking: what about trying cheap, sheet gel filter lighting material, used in front of the flash to, not only cut the T's overall blast exposure, but also bring out the best colors from the get go. Different gels for different T's. I've used this...

I can't seem to delete a message I just found the answer for. I was wondering how many drams a vial was when it was a certain size. Thorntonplastics.com has thorough dimensions, so...

Rosies often elicit much more excitement from the owner upon arrival than they do after getting well-fed and settled in. Again, though, this is a good thing. Unless your bedding is too moist (easily corrected by ample ventilation and abstaining from adding moisture), your T is right as rain. I...

If you don't have wee pinhead crickets (hatchlings), tiny larvae, or wingless fruitflies, I'd select the smallest (most tender) crickets I can find and clip then into sections with very sharp scissors. Put in a bit with some "insides" to it (but not so gooey all over the outside that it does...