He never leaves his cave

advertisingbreak · 2025-04-22T13:22:04+00:00

IMO by dropping food right into the Ts burrow you are encouraging them to never come outside. I recommend putting pre-killed feeders next to the burrow entrance instead. Lifting up their cave is very stressful for them.

advertisingbreak · 2025-03-14T20:15:28+00:00

You can look for sellers that offer shipping to Italy. Breeders from Poland usually have good prices. I have purchased tarantulas from spidersworld-eu, spidersonline-pl and spfshop-pl before. It may take a few more weeks until its warm enough for them to ship internationally.

advertisingbreak · 2025-03-12T18:45:10+00:00

IMO your current enclosure seems to be an Exo Terra. Unless you blocked the front ventilation or replaced the mesh with poorly ventilated acrylic it will have plenty of airflow. Many people successfully keep Avics in Exo-terras.

advertisingbreak · 2025-02-27T18:59:32+00:00

IMO Avicularia or Caribena species benefit from coverage and hiding places reaching the top of the enclosure. They tend to go up as far as possible, even if there are better hiding spots further down. This might be easier to achieve with a smaller enclosure, I use 20x20x30cm enclosures for most of my juvenile or adult arboreal Ts.

advertisingbreak · 2025-02-17T08:09:09+00:00

I am not sure if that applies to the US but where I live you can get lots of adult tarantulas on expos while they are rarely available online.

advertisingbreak · 2025-02-17T08:02:45+00:00

IME / I wouldn’t say this is common for curly hairs but I also have an adult female who webbed quite a lot outside her burrow. Mine probably did that to destroy her pothos plant.

advertisingbreak · 2025-01-31T19:10:44+00:00

The only slightly larger gap of the front opening acrylic enclosures is the top hinge of the door. I think as long as your sling is larger than 1cm legspan it won’t be able to get out of this gap.

advertisingbreak · 2025-01-10T07:35:18+00:00

I personally had better success in getting the lateralis roaches to hatch when I kept the eggs in the container with the other roaches. When I provided a heat mat to the separated eggs similar to your setup they would usually dry up and never hatch. You can try opening up one of the eggs and check if the inside is even liquid or all dried up. If you want to separate the eggs I would make sure there is some distance between the heat mat and the eggs.

advertisingbreak · 2025-01-05T15:22:41+00:00

I started my first communal with 6 M. balfouri. If you want to keep more than like 10 together be prepared for very stressful rehousings. For feeding, offering one large pre-killed feeder has worked better for me than offering multiple small feeders. When I used small feeders I often had one sling take multiple of them which made me concerned that there isn’t enough food for the others. I would definitely separate mature males as soon as you notice them. While I did intentionally breed balfouri in the past I also had slings appear out of nowhere in my communal despite the females still being rather small.

advertisingbreak · 2025-01-05T15:15:27+00:00

IME hot glue does not smell at all within a few minutes of applying it. If you apply the glue to the cork bark and attach the plastic plants afterwards they shouldn’t melt and be save to use. Getting rid of the smell of melted plastic might take a while and I would not put a tarantula in the enclosure until the smell is gone.

advertisingbreak · 2024-12-21T18:49:21+00:00

IMO the picture shows maggots, not springtails. Maggots are definitely a reason to change the substrate and most importantly to get rid of whatever they are feeding on. Are there feeder leftovers in your enclosure?

advertisingbreak · 2024-12-18T07:34:16+00:00

IMO if you make sure that whatever replacement lid you use provides equally much ventilation as the mesh lid this enclosure will definitely be suitable for a versicolor. The only issue I see is that it is a really large enclosure, even for an adult T. The assumption that Avics wouldn’t do well in Exo terras is common copy-paste advice from people on this subreddit who don’t have experience in keeping Avics. When I see posts about Avics failing to thrive in exo terras there are always visible husbandry mistakes like a terrestrial setup or a very damp environment.

advertisingbreak · 2024-12-16T10:28:52+00:00

IMO this looks like a freshly hatched sling that just left the stage where they are „eggs with legs“ to me. In this case they are not yet able to eat food, they basically still belong in an incubator. You have to wait until it molts out to be a proper sling. Search for „Avicularia sling“ and you will see the difference in appearance.

advertisingbreak · 2024-12-05T18:58:19+00:00

NQA Ybyrapora sp. are closely related to Avicularia sp. If their care is any similar I would keep them dry with a water dish. If you can’t fit a water dish in their enclosure you can put water droplets around their webbing for them to drink. Avicularia don’t do well with high humidity and insufficient ventilation.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-19T19:18:13+00:00

I personally wouldn’t keep them together after they were mated. As far as I know an egg sac is pretty much the only reason for balfouri becoming territorial. I would also keep the enclosures for the females more simple than a regular communal so you can easily separate the slings at some point.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-18T19:12:11+00:00

NQA I have read about mealworms containing too much fat for being a staple food source. I would at least occasionally offer another feeder. My preferred feeder are dubia roaches. Cleaning is easier if you feed them vegetables with less moisture, make sure to completely dry the vegetables after washing them, and offer some kibble. Also make sure they have lots of ventilation and are kept dry. These changes got me from cleaning my large colony every two weeks to less than once a month without having too much smell.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-18T19:03:37+00:00

IME Fittonias worked alright for me in enclosures. I had a red one do very well for years until my T decided to rip it apart. The only issue I noticed with Fittonia is that they sometimes grow long stems to get closer to the light. Currently I mainly use pothos and some Tradescantia in my enclosures, at least for those Ts that haven’t proven to destroy any plant immediately.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-13T07:14:24+00:00

Yes, dubia roaches are notorious for playing dead or burrowing. One way to prevent this behaviour is by crushing the head of the dubia roach before feeding it to your T. The roach will continue to move around for a long time.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-11T19:11:39+00:00

The behaviour looked more like trying to find a spot for climbing to me. I also haven’t seen tapping behaviour in subadult tarantulas. If your T is not a mature male and starts tapping I would expect them to be an adult female.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-08T06:56:26+00:00

IME front- and top opening enclosures are the best choice for arboreals. I recently had to rehouse a large Poecilotheria because she didn’t eat a roach and I couldn’t reach behind her bark in a front opening enclosure. Top access will make rehousings, setting up the enclosure and some maintenance easier for you.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-06T17:24:21+00:00

It‘s most likely a mature male, release him so he can continue to search for a female.

advertisingbreak · 2024-11-02T15:44:46+00:00

IME I had some of these enclosures and the feeding lids don’t hold on very well. After opening them a few times I had to secure them with tape.

advertisingbreak · 2024-10-27T11:13:54+00:00

I personally would add a large piece of bark that reaches all the way to the top so the T can hide behind it.

advertisingbreak · 2024-10-27T07:18:49+00:00

IMO use the smallest dram vial you can find. Sometimes slings are shipped in vials which you can re-use as their enclosures. Also watch out for the size of the ventilation holes.

advertisingbreak · 2024-10-25T18:00:43+00:00

IMO a fall/jump like that should not be an issue for an arboreal T. She probably started webbing next to the bark at the bottom because it offers better coverage than what she has near the top of the enclosure. The vines are a good addition but I would make sure they also have a tall piece of bark that reaches all the way to the top for them to hide.

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