My new T. Apophysis

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Is it normal that my new and almost full grown T. Apophysis is attacking everything when i open the cage? It has been totally nuts this last few days and has been very unfriendly{D it has just this day allowed me to take the remaining food out without making a big fuss out of it, but for now i dont open the cage without some protection, wich means gloves(for the hairs) and a big bottle to trap her in:D

She is VERY huge btw.
 

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What's the setup like? It just sounds like a defensive T to me, unless there is something going on in it's enclosure that it doesn't like (besides you coming in there to pick up the trash lol).
 

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What's the setup like? It just sounds like a defensive T to me, unless there is something going on in it's enclosure that it doesn't like (besides you coming in there to pick up the trash lol).
Ok i guess it can be the setup, i have had some feedback that the hide for her is to big and light. And she sit in the open all the time, so i gues i might look for another hide maybe! But she is bought very recently and i have not changed it because i wanted her to calm down first. But is it better to find a better hide and just change it right away?
 

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if you turn it around, so it's facing away from the light, it should be fine. the whole point of a hide, is to hide. lol. yeah, make sure it's pretty dark in the hide, and you should be good.
 

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It could have to do with the hide. It also might be that the enclosure is too small, sometimes when T's are in a smaller enclosure they will treat the entire thing like a big burrow or hide, and be very defensive of it. Yet again another possibility might be that it is just a naturally defensive T. apophysis
 

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I agree, the problem is probably the cage, size and the hide. At least that's what you should check on first imho.
 

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Ok i will make some changes later today, and i will be back later with a picture;-)
 

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ok here is the new one;)
She has quickly gone under the hide and it seems to work alot better;



There will in a couple of days be added a dark piace og paper behind the terrarium so there will be darker in there.
 
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excellent improvement :) And that is one BIG spider! Can't wait for my L. parahybana to hit 9"...she's "only" at 7 1/8" (give or take a 1/16") at the moment.

Trying not to get any more T's until I buy my own house as I've had some unexplainable/strange deaths of my inverts since I moved in to this apartment...but then people like YOU go and post pics like THESE lol...
 

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Great improvement. Impressive spider!

A friend of mine recently bought a female Theraphosa apophysis with a 12" leg span!!! BIG spider! And she's hopefully gravid too :D
 

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Thanks;)

There have now been added a dark paper behind the tank and up to the ventilation. I will take some pics next week and put them in, i will get my digital camera there and the pics will be a LOT better.

And yes she is very big, and she is still young;-) I will try and measure her better one of the next days, probably when her mood is good, because she is not a nice lady, she is actually pretty aggressive when something enters the tank. Ask the mouse i brought in to her as a moving in gift{D But i dont feed her mouse often, i have crix and big hissing roaches for her;)
 

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She is beautiful!!! I can't imagine mine ever being that big, it is really small now, about 3 3/4 inches.
 

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set up looks much better, T looks awesome, I am seriously considering either getting one of these or a T. blondi
 

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She is beautiful!!! I can't imagine mine ever being that big, it is really small now, about 3 3/4 inches.
Thanx, she is not full grown yet, but she is a big girl.
I also have 2 slings of Apophysis, so i hope to get them this size too;)
 

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set up looks much better, T looks awesome, I am seriously considering either getting one of these or a T. blondi
Thanx.

I have never had a Blondi, but i can just say, go for an apophysis, they are exciting and feroucious eaters;)

And the setup is a lot better now, and there is dark now in her hide. She uses it a lot, so i think i done well this time;-)
 
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