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Enclosure update. First post in 5 months.

Updated photo:

My first sling! Aphonopelma sp.

Really? I guess I had anticipated faster growth, but then again this is my first spider. I was only giving the sling one pinhead cricket twice weekly, but I've increased that number to whenever the spider accepts prey.

Today's photo

I feel as this is the highest-definition photo I've captured yet of my sling!

I'm less concerned about whether the genus name was italiziced - with a permanent marker on the sling's enclosure - than I am about the sling's wellbeing. I am a newbie, but I trust the source of my spider.

Also, our office has a veiled chameleon, so Felix is very interesting to me, especially since he is a panther chameleon. More interesting to me is Felix's open-style enclosure.

I need to check our Dave's Little Beasties and Tom Moran. Thanks for the recommendations!

Spider strike...

As an aside, as of late, I am obsessed with The Dark Den YouTube channel.

I'm adverse to maintaining a cricket colony. I don't want a ton of crickets. The adult crikets at the office that we feed to the veiled chameleon really stink! I think I like buying just as much as the sling will consume within a few weeks (3ish).

My concern with adding substrate was that they're so tiny I wouldn't be able to find them (when they weren't on the egg carton). The last group was great - 95% survived and I noted that they grew much larger than when they were purchased. I hear heat mats aid the speed of growth. I don't think...

Cricket enclosure

This is how I'm housing my pinhead crickets. The last batch was excellent. This batch is mostly dead (I think I crushed them?). I give them Fluker's gel drink and dry food.