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no thankyou lol

 

@Pinay @Kwikvette you guys can try luring your reclusive Ts out into the open before feeding. Something that works great is a long blade of grass since it's delicate enough to mimic an insect. Things like straws or your feeding tongs will cause too many vibrations and scare the T away.

 

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Neither does Mini Me

 

Could definitely try; thought I did as little as possible to scare her when I dropped the tiny roach and left it alone for hours.

When I came back to hover and watch, the roach was still kicking about in the same place as it was stuck on the webbing.

 

lol Penelope i'm sorry, don't eat me please.
truth is i dont have arachnophobia, but i'm not a huge fan either but i'll happily look at them from other side of the glass or on the computer in this case. lol

 

So...Mini Me redid his whole top half of his enclosure.

Rather than a small mound against one side, and a tunnel that circles in a U alongside the edge, now it's a big hole and the entire center is webbed upward against the ceiling

Since he webbed up a bunch of substrate to the ceiling, all edges are exposed...almost makes me want to toss it into the slightly larger enclosure I got from @Pinay

He's chilling out in the open, but now he has no hidden space...

 

Maybe she doesn’t want to hide, wants you to see her in full display! And threat posture!

 

Here's how it is now, and the enclosure I could use





Not much of a difference size wise, so that wouldn't be the reason for the rehouse but I feel his enclosure is inadequate due to the layout lol

 

Yeah, time to move to new digs!!

 

Lol I'm assuming it's a he; he's young but he's an OBT so in time the asshole will come out....kind of like his owner

 

And there’s more room to add substrate so she can dig up some more.

 

Haha well if He turns out to be She, you can name her.

Otherwise it's Mini Me

 

Go for it!

 

The substrate I've poured in is a bit on the moist side, so I kind of want it to dry out some before I rehouse.

You can't see it, but the current enclosure corner is soaked/damp below the top layer. It's just that the entire water dish is covered in substrate but that's the corner I use for water.

 

Stumbled upon this cool website and, since I'm going through new spider withdrawal, placed an order for 2 more Ts. I'll surprise you guys with the species when they arrive next week.

https://paladinexotics.com/

 

OH SHI-

*clicks*

 

@boogie3478
@Pinay

Holy shit that was fun



And guess what I found in the webbed up substrate?



A molt that occured before the molt it had with me

 

WTF! Sneaky tarantula!! I didn’t even know about the molt!

 

Oh no the molt wasn't from Lady Gaga lol it's from Mini Me's enclosure I removed him from.

Here's a size comparison; this one was about an inch and a quarter.



The one posted above is about three quarters of an inch

Overall now is a hair over one inch and three quarters



Bottom part is hard to see how far the leg extends...