T. Albopilosum growth rate

[Neonblizzard]

Well first thing congratulations on your T. albopilosus.

The next thing is have patience and enjoy raising your sling. Alot of the enjoyment is watching them grow and the different phases they go through.

T. albo's are also little bulldozers and will constantly move substrate around.

Not sure if you have a Honduran or Nicaraguan.

I have a female Honduran. I purchased her when she was 1 inch and exactly one year later she molted to 4 inches DLS so extremely slow growth rate??? I don't think so, not at all. I can't speak on Nicaraguan as I do not own one.

Growth rates are not always the same regardless of temps. All I do know is her main diet was mealworms and then dubia roaches and superworms. I only used crickets like a few times hardly enough to count.

Also my mystery T that I purchased Feb. 2020 just molted into what I know now is a T. albopilosus suspect male 3 inches now.

So 1 year for my female T. albo to go from 1 inch to 4 and my suspect male T. albo to go from .5 inches to 3 in 12.5 months. Hardly the same growth rate and kept identically. If the male molted into 3.5 then it would be same growth rate even being different genders. However it is only suspect male atm.

That's really interesting to know thanks! I'm surprised that it's quite varied from keeper to keeper. I'll have to come back to this thread in a years time and add to the info