Spider owners tips, feed videos and BS

Lol makes me more excited for my sling m. balfouri to start showing colors. Next molt hopefully.

 

Brachypelma boehmei being a good girl eating her meat and veggies.

 

How small is your sling?

Here's mine, and what looks like the beginning of her tunnels she's webbing up

 

Closeup.

 

Probably 0.5-0.75". Yours is a juvenile.

 

Dang that's small!

Hell I bet even a plastic roll of film enclosure would be too big for it.

 

Yep, still in the generic black/gray sling phase.

 

So this one was acquired recently?

I try to read a lot about the species I either own or am interested in and have seen a common trend repeated; M Balfouri don't survive long as slings if the egg sack is removed from the mother. It's best to have the mother tend to them and live in a communal setup (temporarily) before removing them.

Wonder how small that sling is at time of removal to ensure a healthy specimen.

 

I've actually had it since June of last year. They grow slowly apparently.

 

No waaay?

I have also read they mature at a quicker rate when in a communal setup

 

Here's a pic of my balfouri with a penny off to the side for scale.

 

Still cute how they are webbers even at this size.

 

Speaking of small, my OBT showing off its little rear

 

Chilobrachys fimbriatus feeding

 

Yessssss

 

No gifs...but instead the face of pain and anguish (if bitten) embodied

 

I'm worried this one is going to be a male.

 

Hard to tell because of the enclosure wall but you might actually have the olive color form there.

 

I believe this is one is a male...nice size!