Tapinauchenius Gigas

[Kymura]

I was such a dummy, I realize why my big girl was webbing up front, she was making a "nursery", gave me a phantom sac and molted for me within 48 hours. I'll post a picture of it if I can get it away from her but it's about the size of a quarter and she looked like a big orange cigar for about 6 weeks.

That tickled me for some reason, I got a visual of the proverbial round cartoon figure lifting a cigar and it suddenly unfolding its legs

 

[awiec]

That tickled me for some reason, I got a visual of the proverbial round cartoon figure lifting a cigar and it suddenly unfolding its legs

It's the best description of what she looked like without a picture; was helpful for me as now I know what to look for when I do breed her.

 

[micheldied]

Ha, I saw mine all the time when small as they were constantly hunting....now that they are big i only see them by shinning a light down the burrow holes. If I don't feed them for like 10 days or more, they will emerge, but only the front halves. The only reason I seem 'em is because they are blaze orange and hard to miss when the light hits them. I see my H. macs, P. irminia/cambridgei, LVs, and A. ezendami (these are my most reclusive) a TON more than the adult OBTs. Mine also only web the areas around the burrow. A lot of what I see in OBT enclosures is a totally webbed enclosure, and as brought up recently (AphonopelmaTX?), this can be an indicator that the t sees the entire enclosure as its burrow, and if that is the case, it would stand to reason that it would be "out" more.

That may be true, that they're out when they web the entire enclosure because they see it as their burrow. Mine always webbed up the entire enclosure as they got larger, and their enclosures were never very large like I normally use for other species.

 

[Storm76]

I've kept my Tappie for 3 years ongoing, it's out daily, skittish and extremely quick, but not very defensive. Easy to keep imo.