Ephebopus cyanognathus - difficult or easy to care for?

[charm271]

I have heard from a experienced keeper/breeder he would never keep the blue fangs because they are diffiicult to keep and they have sudden death syndrome worse than Avics do. Reading an eariler post on AB (http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?10374-Ephebopus-cyanognathus&), one keeper says, "As far as care, they are pretty simple, and are a fairly hardy species, in my experience." Are they that varied from Tarantula to Tarantula maybe? Would it be better in ordering a juv or adult over a sling? Although it is not the same species I ordered 7 Cyriocosmus species from a known and proven breeder in my area. Four of them were DOA, 2 died within days, and one I still have (thank god for damp paper towels). Could Ephebopus cyanognathus be the same in that only a few tarantulas are "hardy and easy to keep" and the rest will die out quick?

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

Whoever said that they were hard to keep is a nut. There's nothing hard about keeping them.

 

[poisoned]

They may be more exposed to mites than dessert species, but nothing extreme.

 

[peterUK]

Nothing hard about keeping them.

Deep, damp (NOT wet) substrate, good ventilation and thats it . . simple.

What is sudden death syndrome ?
Is it a nonsense name for killing spiders by bad husbandry ?

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

E. cyanognathus are extremely easy to care for. Just don't open the container all the way

What is sudden death syndrome ?
Is it a nonsense name for killing spiders by bad husbandry ?

Yes...

 

[le-thomas]

E. cyanognathus are extremely easy to care for.

This can probably be said about 98% of tarantula species.

 

[madamoisele]

I have a real problem keeping slings 1.5 inches and smaller alive. Only half of them make it. I have no other attrition in the rest of my collection.

If it's bad husbandry on my part, I'd sure like to know what I'm doing wrong so I can correct it!

 

[jayefbe]

I have a real problem keeping slings 1.5 inches and smaller alive. Only half of them make it. I have no other attrition in the rest of my collection.

If it's bad husbandry on my part, I'd sure like to know what I'm doing wrong so I can correct it!

That's very high, in my opinion. I'd place my survival rate for small slings at 90%+. I do have the occasional death that will completely confound me, but still not near 50%. Just to provide more evidence against the Avicularia frailty, I've never lost an Avic.

 

[apophysis]

This can probably be said about 98% of tarantula species.

THIS! IMO there are no "hard species" .. I`ts all rumors that some species require special care .. Access to water is key regardless if it is a grammostola or a theraphosa

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I have a real problem keeping slings 1.5 inches and smaller alive. Only half of them make it. I have no other attrition in the rest of my collection.

If it's bad husbandry on my part, I'd sure like to know what I'm doing wrong so I can correct it!

How do you keep them? Substrate, dry/moist/wet and how about the ventilation?

 

[peterUK]

That's very high, in my opinion. I'd place my survival rate for small slings at 90%+. I do have the occasional death that will completely confound me, but still not near 50%. Just to provide more evidence against the Avicularia frailty, I've never lost an Avic.

I have around 640 slings at the moment (5 species) and I've lost 2 due to unknown reasons. I do not expect to loose slings, but occasionally one will never feed from the egg and there is nothing that can be done about it. So I would place my sling survival rate at 99%+. PS. this includes avic's also