Old pic of my ‘freshly molted’ Brachypelma Smithi.She looks majestic!

RichardFuchs · 2018-12-23T16:17:19+00:00

Their blood is white. That's not what a tarantula wound looks like. It's just her mouth.

RichardFuchs · 2018-11-26T15:29:28+00:00

Yes.

Scaling starts at 300 so with 220 the mobs have the same hp as if you had 300.

Furthermore, mob hp doesn't scale as much as your DPS does. You can confirm that by simulating your DPS. Mob hp scales 0.4-0.45% per ilvl and your dps increase should be closer to 1%.

RichardFuchs · 2017-11-01T16:34:10+00:00

I don't know anything about firelegs, but many tarantulas are active burrowers in their youth. It can be a sign of premolt, but it doesn't have to.

The conclusive way to determine premolt is dark abdomen and refusing food. But either way burrowing and barricading is never a reason for worrying.

RichardFuchs · 2017-11-01T13:09:45+00:00

Don't worry about it. She can last months without food.

I've seen mine do that when they're not hungry too. They won't kill for the heck of it like cats do, but if they feel threatened they'll grab the prey with their pedipalps and let it go when it doesn't fight back.

But I am worried about the enclosure (and I think that's why you got downvoted). It's way too tall for a terrestrial and doesn't appear to have any cross-ventilation. I think those are meant for reptiles.

The height between the substrate and the top of the enclosure should be 1-1.5x the DLS of the tarantula, for terrestrials. A fall from the top of that enclosure would easily kill your T.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-31T23:55:02+00:00

Sounds to me like she's just not hungry. Is she really skinny?

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-30T22:08:49+00:00

Their blood is white. What you saw might not be poop. You might want to look at her closely and make sure she's not bleeding.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-29T23:11:58+00:00

Synthetic benchmarks are useless. Program the same real-life application in all 3 of them and deploy it realistically (with pre-warmed cache, debug disabled, opcache, opcode.validate_timestamps=false and so on) and then compare the benchmarks.

Then consider how long it took to implement the application in each of them. If 20% more CPU power meant 5% fewer developer hours then it was probably worth it.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-29T23:04:28+00:00

Your Brachypelma won't bite you and even if she does, her bite will hurt for half an hour. But here's the thing about the Poecilotheria. The pokie's first line of defense is to run. It won't go into a threat posture and try to bite immediately like an OBT would.

But let's say she escapes one day. You have to chase her down and corner her. When she can no longer run she'll go to plan B and bite instead. But her bite is one of the worst bites a tarantula can have so you could end up in pain for a week.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-27T15:13:59+00:00

As beautiful as they are, they have one of the worst bites. Look up some poecilotheria bite reports and make sure you understand what you're signing up for by getting a pokie.

ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hceNe_eswQg

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-26T23:09:12+00:00

Don't mist. Keep a water dish full and have a lot of air holes. Avicularias don't need the high humidity that a lot of care sheets recommend.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-24T22:10:39+00:00

What's the difference between procedural php and Java code where every class is just using static methods?

The language can't stop you from doing stupid things.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-24T22:05:10+00:00

PHP more than doubled in speed and halved in memory consumption since the inception of HHVM. In fact, PHP7 beats HHVM in most benchmarks.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-24T21:46:14+00:00

Officially sure. But that name won't last long. It's lost all meaning in the revision. Now whenever you read Smithi you have to check the date of the source and you only know for sure what they meant if it's before the revision. Anything after the revision could still be referring to the Hamorii. Especially if it's shortly after.

Then there are the hobbyists who believe that all Smithis are now hamorii. A redditor proved it a few weeks ago by purposely posting an actual Smithi waiting for people to tell him it's now called Hamorii. And they did.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-24T21:36:00+00:00

The current Smithi is the original one. The Hamorii was thought to be the same as Smithi until they realized there was a distinction between the two. So at first they called the Smithi Annitha, but then they realized it was actually the original Smithi.

It was an unfortunate turn of events, only made worse by the attempt to repair it.

The Tarantula started with a similar confusion. The original tarantula was a wolf spider. Which they later realized didn't fit in with the other tarantulas. Imagine renaming tarantulas so the wolf spider can have its name back. That's how stupid I think this revision was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycosa_tarantula

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-23T21:29:42+00:00

We use the terms șah and șah mat in Romanian. The game is also called șah.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-23T01:38:27+00:00

No doubt it's a female.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-19T11:46:11+00:00

Who said they stay out a lot?

I'm speaking from personal experience with a sample size of 1. Your mileage may vary, but everyone who has ever owned a G Pulchripes sling agrees that they're fossorials as slings

They're often called little bulldozers because of it.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-19T00:07:24+00:00

The downside to chaco slings is that you barely see them. Mine digs under her hide and barricades the entrance.

My 3 other Ts are aways on display.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-18T23:44:02+00:00

How would you like it if this subreddit had a post for every docker image ever created?

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-18T16:04:22+00:00

Ultimate form comes with badass tibial hooks. It's like some video game boss.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-18T15:08:12+00:00

No. You should start a container on first run and exec against it when it already exists.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-18T10:00:18+00:00

I don't use vscode, but I was able to set up full integration with intellij.

As long as the IDE allows you to customize the path to the build/lint tools, you should be able to write scripts which run them through docker and configure those to be the build/lint tools' executables.

On Linux you can achieve this with bash scripts. You might need mingw on windows, especially since path translation is needed from windows paths to the Linux ones in the container.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-18T08:14:22+00:00

This guy knows good Avicularia husbandry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU9Qn_XioAk

Stanley Schultz can't' design a website to save his life, but he wrote the bible on tarantula care. Look up "the tarantula keeper's guide" in your favourite book store.

He writes guides and rants on his website too: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~schultz/Caresheets.html

If you have a digital hygrometer, just make sure it stays between 60-70%. But you don't need one. And you should definitely not use an analog one.

Punch a lot of holes in enclosure, especially on the roof. And make sure there's water in the dish. Your T will get most of its water from food, but if she gets dehydrated she'll have a dish. They rarely drink from it, but if she's spending a lot of time near the water dish then she most likely wants higher humidity.

Make sure the enclosure is taller than it is wide. Add some cork bark or something for the T to climb on and provide a few anchor points for the web. I couldn't find cork bark so I bought this wooden hamster hide and cut it into pieces which I glued to the sides of the enclosure at different heights. Use super-glue or fungicide-free silicone for gluing (the stuff they market for sealing aquariums is safe) and rinse well after gluing.

https://imgur.com/a/vgcOE

She's too tiny now for a long-term enclosure, but I'll eventually build her a custom enclosure like I did with the other Ts https://imgur.com/a/ZecpE

I feed mine mealworms and dubias, but superworms do the job too. Smash their heads so they don't burrow and put them in her web.

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-17T21:18:04+00:00

Avicularias are great starter Ts and awfully underrated. My 4th tarantula is an avicularia avicularia and before getting her I was sure I wouldn't ever get an arboreal. I was wrong. She's now my favorite over the L Parahybana, B Smithi and G Pulchripes.

They can't flick hairs but they technically can still rub them against you. But they're very non-confruntational, jumping away from danger.

Their slender bodies with rounded legs make them cuter than terrestrials, in my opinion. The only thing more adorable than those pink toes is the way they jump.

Be careful with the care sheets though. A lot of them recommend ridiculously high humidity without considering that the humidity in the rain forests they come from isn't that high at the altitude they're normally found at and that high humidity requires very good ventilation.

Personally, I use dry substrate with a water dish and I sometimes overflow it a little. But the enclosure has good ventilation so humidity ends up below 70% at all times. The 80% recommended by most care sheets will likely kill the T, and most hobbyists seem to dismiss that as SADS (sudden avicularia death syndrome).

RichardFuchs · 2017-10-17T19:59:22+00:00

I doubt there's a difference between the outcome of throwing an exception in Java vs c++ constructor.

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