That's a bit too small for me. Just FYI, size depends a lot on checking molts with the naked eye. I have a confirmed female B. hamorii that is about 4" that I raised since it was .75" and it looked male (No visible spermatheca) for every molt up until it was about 3.5" and BAM, the spermatheca about punched me in the face. It wasn't visible at all until the last molt she had.I did one yesterday from my D. rufoniger that measured 1.25" DLS stretched out. Turned out to be male (). That is about the smallest that I can manage with my sausage fingers, but I know other folks that can successfully unfurl and sex ones as small as 1/2"!
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Quite a few of my T's are smaller species, so I've had to get used to working with small molts. You're right, though - there's no way I could sex those little ones without magnification, even on my best day! I bought a $20 pocket microscope from Amazon and it has been a very helpful tool. It'll do 60X up to 120X magnification. Even with that, I still check molts from T's I've sexed previously, just in case I missed something...That's a bit too small for me. Just FYI, size depends a lot on checking molts with the naked eye. I have a confirmed female B. hamorii that is about 4" that I raised since it was .75" and it looked male (No visible spermatheca) for every molt up until it was about 3.5" and BAM, the spermatheca about punched me in the face. It wasn't visible at all until the last molt she had.
Here's one for example, just molted this morning... 1.5" DLS Thrixopelma pruriens, now a confirmed female:Quite a few of my T's are smaller species, so I've had to get used to working with small molts. You're right, though - there's no way I could sex those little ones without magnification, even on my best day! I bought a $20 pocket microscope from Amazon and it has been a very helpful tool. It'll do 60X up to 120X magnification. Even with that, I still check molts from T's I've sexed previously, just in case I missed something...