Unnamed little juvenile girl

[Mountaindani]

I am so in love. Look at those eyes. I'm sure she is judging me for sticking my big face near her home all the time. But I can't help it. She was such a tiny sling when I got her, and now look at her. She is 2 years now so she may be an adult, but I know they grow slow so I am guessing she is a juvenile. I don't know.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

I am so in love. Look at those eyes. I'm sure she is judging me for sticking my big face near her home all the time. But I can't help it. She was such a tiny sling when I got her, and now look at her. She is 2 years now so she may be an adult, but I know they grow slow so I am guessing she is a juvenile. I don't know. View attachment 486452

How large of legspan? Very cool t I had two once.

 

[Charliemum]

If you got her as a sling n you've had her 2 years n she's only just gotten her full adult colours you have another 5 years before she's adult, these grow very slow
She's beautiful btw

 

[viper69]

Size more important than age to a degree

 

[LucN]

Raising a B. hamorii sling and finding out it's female some years later amounts to winning the lottery in my book If it's only 2 years old, I strongly doubt it's adult, not until it reaches 5" DLS at least. And that will take some time. Are you in a rush ? Of course you aren't. Enjoy her company as you'll have several decades with her

 

[Gevo]

Beautiful girl! Maturity is more based on size of the tarantula and development of sex organs than on age. These grow so slowly that yours is likely still a juvenile, especially if she's under 4 or 5 inches in diagonal leg span. I have one that I would guess is about 2 or 3 years old, and she's somewhere between 2.5 and 3 inches in diagonal leg span right now--very much still a juvenile!

 

[Mountaindani]

Raising a B. hamorii sling and finding out it's female some years later amounts to winning the lottery in my book If it's only 2 years old, I strongly doubt it's adult, not until it reaches 5" DLS at least. And that will take some time. Are you in a rush ? Of course you aren't. Enjoy her company as you'll have several decades with her

I felt like I won the lottery for sure. She is definitely one of my favourite pets. I really don't care when she matures, she is just a delight to have. I mentioned not being sure about maturity only because I hadn't researched it. I know they are slow growing and long lived. And so beautiful

Beautiful girl! Maturity is more based on size of the tarantula and development of sex organs than on age. These grow so slowly that yours is likely still a juvenile, especially if she's under 4 or 5 inches in diagonal leg span. I have one that I would guess is about 2 or 3 years old, and she's somewhere between 2.5 and 3 inches in diagonal leg span right now--very much still a juvenile!

She is a sweet young thing for sure

How large of legspan? Very cool t I had two once.

I have to wait for her yoga stretch days. She isn't very big, I'm sure. Maybe 4, possibly 5 inches DLS. I am honestly a poor judge of guessing that. So that estimate is probably way off lol

She is a Brachypelma smithi, I forgot to mention

 

[LucN]

She is a Brachypelma smithi, I forgot to mention

I really have a hard time telling the two apart. Doesn't really matter in the end, they're both beautiful

 

[Gevo]

I was just looking up maturity for females recently, and it has to do with the development of the spermatheca. They typically continue to molt and grow after that point, but that’s when they’d be able to produce a viable egg sac, so it’s more of interest to people who want to breed them. They don’t go through really clear stages of sling/juvenile/subadult/adult, so unless you’re looking for sexual maturity, most of it is just an approximation anyway.

I was eyeballing it with my tarantulas for a while when figuring out their size, and then when I actually got out the tape measure, I realized I tend to overestimate that way. I still don’t have exact measurements because they don’t stretch out often and I’m measuring from a distance above them, but I’m more confidently in the ballpark now!