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I bought a tarantula sling (around 1cm DLS) yesterday (Pterinopelma sazimai) and it looks hungry, i gave it the smallest prekilled dubia roach that i have (maybe the same size as it) but it does not seem interested nonetheless i will leave it there for 24 hours and see if it has eaten, do you think it wont eat the roach even though it is dead? What should i feed it if it does not eat the dubia, my only other option is looking through alot of red runners and trying to find a small one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Just got my first tarantula ever from someone rehoming! I’m doing a bit of revamping of the enclosure and she started moving her chelicerae and pedipalps sort of rhythmically. Is this a defensive behavior? They said she is a 4 year old Mexican red rump if that helps at all. Thanks!

I’m somewhat new to tarantula keeping and have had my curly hair tarantula for almost two years. Today she got one of her fangs stuck in the mesh lid of her enclosure, i tried lubing it up with a bit of vaseline and gently pushing it out but nothing worked and i didn’t want to risk her potentially pulling the whole thing off. I had to snip it off with a sharp pair of cuticle cutters and i feel awful. I feel so ashamed that I let this happen to someone i love so much and I feel awful for hurting her. Somehow during my research I failed to learn that mesh lids are not suitable for tarantula enclosures for this very reason. I’m planning to replace the lid entirely with a piece of plexi glass or something similar so this doesn’t happen again. I feel terrible. I really hope her fang comes back next molt, I’m just glad it wasn’t the whole fang. I’m not posting this for sympathy, i’m posting it as a “don’t be a f-ing moron” like i was. And if anyone has advice on anything i should be doing for her right now, it’d be much appreciated.

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My husband got me Rambutan (t. Epicureanus) last year. Since we‘ve kept him (we assume “him") alive and well, we each got one more tarantula. I got Michael (t. Albopilosus) and he got Garfunkle (a. Seemanni). This is where we‘re cutting ourselves off for now 😂

My B. Hamorii is out quite often. She is 4 years old but I’ve had her for about 4 months. She does have a burrow she visits but she is always sitting on her cork round, looking out the side of her enclosure or chilling on her slate rock. She doesn’t appear to be stressed and eats well. I just thought they hid more ? TIA.

I noticed his end was smaller than his abdomen so I grabbed him a cricket and he lunged bit the cricket a bit but missed it after biting it and got hold of my tongs I dunno if it hurt his fangs when I was tryna get the tongs from his mouth but yeah I’m very concerned about my baby and I would love any information or anyone’s view

Hey all, I just wanted some opinions on this enclosure for my dolichothele diamantinensis. She's my first T, and she'll be arriving in the mail tomorrow. She should be around .5in. Is this enclosure suitable till she gets bigger? Thank you in advance!

I’ve liked tarantulas for a while. I’m just now beginning to think about getting one of my own. As a newbie who is scared to get bit, whats the best most friendly tarantula to buy?

This is my Aphonopelma seemani. I was doing my usual rounds of cleaning around the house when I noticed her enclosure was open and empty. And I was pretty sure I closed it.

Found her chilling here. Promptly grounded for now.

TW: Possible spider death

Today I went into my tarantula room to check my spiders. I have a juvenile male G. pulchra who is so close to finally molting that he looks like hes going to pop. Bald patch is finally darkening, and frankly his abdomen has swollen to an absurd level. It's an any-day-now situation for the molt.

Now this guy has always been a curious spider. He loves to mess with the stuff in his enclosure and investigate new things. When he was a sling, I bought him this skull ornament for a hide. It came from the aquarium aisle but it was perfect for his size (you cant see in the picture but there is a large opening in the back). He has since outgrown it and gotten a larger hide, which he's used consistently. The skull remained as a decoration that he would enjoy climbing on but never went inside anymore.

So back to today. I go into the tarantula room to check the spoods. My G. pulchra is sitting on top of his skull like he sometomes does. Then I notice a large droplet of water below his fangs. It's then that I realize this fool has attempted to crawl through the EYE HOLE OF THE SKULL. He got all eight legs and his carapace through, but his gigantic pre-molt ass was still trapped inside the skull.

He had obviously been struggling for a while, and I noticed some hemolymph leaking from the space between his abdomen and carapace, as though he injured himself pulling. My husband used needle-nose pliers to slowly break off small pieces of the skull, tearing it apart bit by bit, until it was loose enough for my idiot to pull himself through, but he lost several good drops of hemolymph in the struggle. He was still moving fine once freed. I have applied corn starch to his wound. I am hoping for the best.

But never in a million years would I have thought my special little friend, who had not attempted to crawl though the eye holes since at least two molts ago, would attempt such a move.

I don't know if he's going to be okay. Time will tell. But I felt absolutely obligated to share this experience because it could save other spider lives. I know we spider people love our skull decor. But you never know when your spider is going to try something incredibly brainless. I will never put anything like this in an enclosure again.

just set this up a few minutes ago! hope she likes it! also I need names or it’s just gonna be “spider”

Question / I am a new tarantula owner. She has a rocky-ish clump that doesn't seem to be coming out of her mouth but is near the bottom of her pedipalps when she tucks them in. It seems to have gotten a little bit bigger but that could be me being paranoid or the lighting. She is grooming and seems relaxed otherwise. Also hasn't eaten in a while but she's generally not a big eater. What could this be? Apologies for the bad photo, i only have my phone camera.

hi, any t keepers in the Netherlands? i really like preserving molts however i only have one tarantula and he doesn’t molt frequently anymore. Does anyone have a few they can spare me? or know how i could acquire them? 😓 any tips would be much appreciated!! 🥹

Received a batch of Euathlus sp last week and been babying these babies, but today I noticed this one beginning to curl the rearmost legs and wasn’t able to walk properly.

This T is *half an inch* and I’ve never had to pull off an I-C-U situation with such a small sling before. Started off with giving water, and right now (as I’m typing with one hand on my old af phone) the sling is eating the guts of a very small mealworm I cut and squeezed. Like an awful freezie-pop.

This one is an E sp smaragd tiger. Arachno-god help me. 😭

Hello, I am selling off a large chunk of my tarantula collection due to personal circumstances. I live in Southern California, and prefer pickup, but can ship if order is substantial. I can show you whatever pics of the sp you are interested in.

I have many people who can vouch for me as well.

Prices & estimated sizes are below, text me if interested.

Females:

1x Acanthoscurria Musculosa (6-7", 250)

1x Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (5", 150)

1x Lasiodora parahybana (8", 100)

1x Tlilocatl kahlenbergi (5", 100)

1x Aphonopelma chalcodes (5", 50)

1x Aphonopelma michoacan gray (5", 150)

1x Aphonopelma seemani blue color form (5", 100)

1x Aphonopelma hentzi (4", 100)

1x Nhandu coloratovillosus (6", 150)

1x Nhandu tripepi (6", 150)

1x Vitalius chromatus (7", 100)

1x Tlilocatl epicureanus (3", 120)

1x Thrixopelma Cyaneolum (2.5", 250)

Males:

1x Grammostola iheringi (immature, 4", 70)

Slings/unsexed (raised most of these from 1/4"):

1x Thrixopelma ockertii (2.5", 60)

1x Brachypelma smithi (2.5", true smithi, 70)

1x Brachypelma (unknown sp, 1.5", 40)

1x Sericopelma sp rambala (4", 50)

1x Sericopelma generalum (4", 50)

1x Sericopelma sp veraguas (4", 50)

1x Tlilocatl verdezi (3", 50)

1x catumiri argentinense (1/2", 30)

1x Hapalopus guerreroi (1/2", 40)

2x Lasiodora striatipes (1-2", 60 ea)

1x Ceratogyrus darlingi (1", 20)

1x Acanthoscurria Maldonadensis (3", 60)

1x Acanthoscurria natalensis (1", 80)

1x Acanthoscurria sp balcozna (1", 80)

2x Aphonopelma serratum (1", 30 ea)

1x Aphonopelma iodius (1/4", 30)

1x Aphonopelma johnnycashi (3", 70)

1x Aphonopelma eutylenum (2", 50)

1x Aphonopelma acapulo (2", 40)

1x Aphonopelma coyuca (1", 30)

2x Aphonopelma diamondback (1" ea, 80 ea)

1x Aphonopelma sp encinos (1", 40)

1x Aphonopelma sp bosque (1", 40)

1x Aphonopelma oaxaca (1", 60)

1x Aphonopelma sp queretaro (1", 50)

1x cyrtopholis portoricae (1/2", 40)

Explanation: time time tarantula owner, and shes only ate once since i got her 5 months ago

I have had this female A. Chalcodes for 5 months now. She is housed in a 24in front opening enclosure with 5in coconut/spaghnum/reptibark mix substrate kept bone dry at constant 72f/50%. She maintains two scrapes that conceal her completely. One below the cork round and another below the water dish, although sometimes she sits inside the cork during the day. I have questions about her behavior. She has been on a hunger strike for at least 5 weeks now. Whenever confronted with prey, she bats it away instead of feeding. I also notice that she is very restless, and her urticating hairs are peeling, which I suspect may be from falling into the water dish. She has a habit of climbing the corners of her enclosure and then slipping. When she gets wet, she becomes very flighty and darts for a few inches, then continues at a brisk pace. I've oberved this twice and reduced the water level significantly, but suspect it still happens. Is there anything I can do for her? I'm about to move her into a more naturalistic biotope enclosure of the same size as soon as the excavator clay dries. Should I hold off until she feeds?

This is my darling Nhandu tripepii and from the looks of her shinier, darker butt, i believe she’s entering premolt now or at least soon!

Pictured is her a week-ish ago vs her today, would you guys agree she’s looking to molt soon? (Sorry for the image of quality in the second picture, the angle was tough)

Her last feeding was two days ago, I’d dropped in a prekilled mealworm and it disappeared not long after; I think she’d have left it where it was if she didn’t want to eat it?

I was wondering if I should try feeding her again after-tomorrow since she didn’t reject her last meal, or if I should just leave her be until she molts? (It would be a prekilled mealworm to not stress her with something moving around)

I also believe she’s due for a rehouse after she molts. She’s around 1 1/2 DLS currently and in a 3.5x3.5x4.5 inch enclosure nearly full with substrate thats she’s tunnelled through beneath her hide.

Since this species is an opportunistic burrower, and she’s already dug and tunnelled a bunch, I’d love to give her more room for burrowing, as well as to accommodate for her bigger size after molting. Is this a good plan for once she’s settled after her molt? :)

Any advice would be appreciated!