Grimmdreadly
Arachnopeon
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- Mar 13, 2017
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I handled my female juvenile S.calceatum recently for that exact reason. This was the first time I've actually felt a bit of fear when a tarantula crawled up my arm...I don't think it's as unreliable as people make out, I've only been proved wrong 3 times out of 16 unsexed specimens (all females that I initially thought were male, 2 of those were species that are known to be tricky to vent sex), so I'm currently operating at 82.25% accuracy so far
My reason for learning to vent sex is that I basically didn't trust people to send me what they'd advertised, allow waiting several months for a moult to find out you've been duped.
I do, however, agree that spermathecae sexing is pretty much foolproof provided you get an intact exuvia.
I believe you mean "penultimate", @Grimmdreadly explained "post ultimate" already so I'll leave it at that.
To answer the original question, other than housing/feeding her, I did handle* my little juvie B. albopilosum, she just calmly wandered around on the palm of my hand and then she just crapped on it, I chuckled to myself and put her back in her enclosure, fun times.
* I don't handle now unless a T bolts out of its enclosure when I open it and runs up my arm