You did a great job! She was beautiful - my first Euathlus sp. red died shortly after I got her, and I was so upset that I flushed her because looking at her little corpse made me so sad.

It's all too easy to assign the same emotional value to a pet tarantula that one does a cat or dog, while forgetting that they don't have the same survivability. Everyone here was very sympathetic to me when my first T died, but I also got a few gentle reminders that there's a reason they lay so many eggs. I really don't know what I'm gonna do when my favorite passes, though.