How’s your 50% chance luck turns out so far?

[Ungoliant]

Here are my updated stats:

Unsexed tarantulas that turned out to be female (40%):

• Avicularia avicularia #2
• Grammostola pulchra #1
• Grammostola pulchra #2
• Psalmopoeus cambridgei
• Neoholothele incei
• Davus pentaloris

Unsexed tarantulas that turned out to be male (20%):

• Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
• Dolichothele diamantinensis (sent to breeder)
• Acanthoscurria geniculata

Slings I haven't yet sexed (40%):

• Bumba cabocla
• Phormictopus sp. "south Hispaniola"
• Psalmopoeus irminia
• Augacephalus ezendami
• Avicularia avicularia #3
• Avicularia avicularia #4

 

[AngelDeVille]

I have only purchased one as a confirmed female, a 2” G. pulchripes.

She molted recently but the molt was a little too damaged for me to check.

I only have one or three others at or around 2” I maybe could check. And next molt I will.

The rest are slings.

Females would be nice because of the longevity, but I don’t plan to breed, but any that mature could be lent out.

I plan to give the spiders I have as long of a life as they are capable of.

 

[Minty]

Of the unsexed tarantulas I’ve bought, my C.cyanepubescens turned out to be male (from TSS), my Lapropelma violaceopes sub adult turned out to be female (from TSS), my Brachypelma boehmei is a suspect male (from a reptile store) and my Poecilotheria metallica is suspect male.

The rest are too small to sex.

 

[viper69]

There’s no such thing as 50% chance for sex of T.

 

[Wolfspidurguy]

I love getting tarantulas as unsexed sling, and test my 50% chance luck of getting a female out of it.

How’s your 50% chance luck turns out so far?

Not well seing my a avic which was the first T i went to go get sexed molted wierd so the guy working there (who keeps Ts himself and knows what hes talking about) told me it was a bit too hard to sex he told me it looks like a male tho

 

[weibkreux]

since I started the hobby this year, all I raised are males.

MALE:
B. vagans (which I traded to a smaller sized female B. albopilisum)
B. hamorri x2 (not sure about the other one though)
B. boehmei
B. auratum

the rest are slings (seemani, lp, N. chroma)

 

[FrDoc]

When this post started last January, I was curious as to the input. I was interested because it seemed like so many folks are really caught up in the sexing thing. I thought maybe it just came with time in the hobby. However, let me throw my hat into the ring on the side of, and I mean this seriously, I don’t care one bit. I don’t mean this in any way to say one shouldn’t care about the sex, e.g., breeders, folks who yearn for a certain look that one or the other of the sexes may exhibit, etc., but as a simple keeper I just get a kick out of T’s being T’s. I don’t look at exuvia with my magnifying lens anymore. I buy slings without a second thought as to sex. If they hook-out on me I actually get a little excited about getting a new T within the next several months or so. I wouldn’t even consider sending a MM away on loan, or sale for breeding. We hung out this long, we’ll hang out to the end. I might not be into naming the little buggers, but I do think they’re cool enough not to put them in the position of possibly being dinner and a date. Just some input.

 

[MikeofBorg]

I love getting tarantulas as unsexed sling, and test my 50% chance luck of getting a female out of it.

How’s your 50% chance luck turns out so far?

1 female A chalcodes, 1 male Avicularia avicularia, 1 suspect male A seemanni and a B hamorii too small to sex. I seem to have been 1 for 3 so far. The A chalcodes was suspect female when I got her, was just starting to show mature colors. The Avic and A seemanni were both 1 inch unsexed slings. The Avic is now 4.32 inches in DLS and grew like a weed. The A seemanni is just over 3 inches in DLS, but I have yet to get a molt out of his burrow. He tears them apart digging himself out. Plus he stays down in his burrow for a month after his molt so the shed is bone dry and brittle by the time he digs out. My B hamorii is just about an inch, got it at just under 3/4" I believe or 1/2". Its in pre-molt again, this will be its 3rd for me.