I’ll keep them like my C. Sp Electric Blue then thank you!
Love the pic man!! Such beaut
This is absolutely not a hard and fast rule....in fact, i would call it a myth.
When you have hatched out a sac of spiderlings, no one on earth is going to nitpick over each one to know when it ate last.....we can't watch every sling all the time.
When a sling last molted is entirely irrelevant info....first, you can look at the abdomen and get a good idea, but they are molting so quickly at this stage that just knowing the instar is more than enough info for ANY buyer....just feed the sling and dont worry about it.
This would only happen if the person selling was the breeder...when you shop at an online store front, most of what they have was purchased wholesale from the breeder, so knowing the "birthdate" isnt possible...plus its not really relevant info like it would be for many other animals. Now when buying directly from a breeder, that's when you will have a better idea of the hatch date...but most dont buy directly from breeders.
Your questions make that clear...lol.
Again, when you have hundreds and hundreds of slings, the amount of time needed to acquire that data would be absurd and not worth any dealer or breeders time. This data you want isn't something any experienced keeper would be concerned about...only newbies care about these irrelevant pueces of info...no offense...we were all newbies at one time
looking at that way yeah , I figured there had to be some reason . Guess getting into this I thought it would be more exact with a few more things but Im finding out really quickly that is far from the case. I couldn't imagine dealing with hundreds of slings that just decided overnight not to consume the food. Someone trolled me on another thread because I fed C Versi slings without prekilling the prey. Sorry but if I prekilled the prey item , i would not be able to tell if the sling had consumed it and left the carcass or the bug just died off overnight . I thought my eyes were pretty good. I would never be able to tell if those tiny meals were liquified from the inside out or just died off on there own overnight. I would need a microscope. But I suppose if sling doesn't enter pre-molt , the bugs you were feeding weren't getting consumed. Hence why I picked up the back ma, for being so little its not skittish and did not bolt or cause issues. It seems to be a tiny spider with much larger spider confidence. Maybe I got into the wriong hobby but I tend to like things with a ton to learn , inherently complex . I think im right where I belong.This is absolutely not a hard and fast rule....in fact, i would call it a myth.
When you have hatched out a sac of spiderlings, no one on earth is going to nitpick over each one to know when it ate last.....we can't watch every sling all the time.
When you have a sac of spiderlings
When a sling last molted is entirely irrelevant info....first, you can look at the abdomen and get a good idea, but they are molting so quickly at this stage that just knowing the instar is more than enough info for ANY buyer....just feed the sling and dont worry about it.
Now I will say things are different with juvies and adults...some breeders, myself included, often will include the last molt date if its known.
This would only happen if the person selling was the breeder...when you shop at an online store front, most of what they have was purchased wholesale from the breeder, so knowing the "birthdate" isnt possible...plus its not really relevant info like it would be for many other animals. Now when buying directly from a breeder, that's when you will have a better idea of the hatch date...but most dont buy directly from breeders.
Your questions make that clear...lol.
Again, when you have hundreds and hundreds of slings, the amount of time needed to acquire that data would be absurd and not worth any dealer or breeders time. This data you want isn't something any experienced keeper would be concerned about...only newbies care about these irrelevant pueces of info...no offense...we were all newbies at one time
really a large part of the issue is simply that with almost everything tarantula and tarantula keeping, there is just so much variability in everything we/tthey do.....some keepers grow things real fast, others real slowly...some individuals outgrow all siblings while others lag impossibly behind...same age but many many molts behind and a fraction of the size....
Im finding this all out very quickly, and it's all good. I agree completely with what your saying here so far.