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New to keeping tarantulas! And I'm in a bit of a pickle! A long time friend called me up. She works at a homeless shelter. A homeless man came in to stay and had two tarantulas. He was told he could not keep them there and would have to re-home them or throw them out if a home was not available...

As I mentioned in my last post my tarantula hasn't ate since last year and she started to get skinny. It started after she lost two of legs, is there anything I could do to encourage her to eat? Or should I just wait for her to molt? Also she has been swimming in water dish and I'm buying her...

So here is her story. I got my tarantula Monocentropus balfouri a week ago from some guy that really hated her and didnt want to take care of her. He left her to die basically. And that is where I stepped in. I'm aware that this species of tarantula is of a ''old world'' one and is probably...

I have 2 fossorial species that are relatively new to my collection- a Chilobrachys sp. Vietnam Blue and a Cerotogyrus Darlingi. Both are small juvies and only one is (supposedly) sexed as a female. When I got them, I moved them into small plasic 4" square x 3" high containers with plenty of...

Hey fellow Tarantula keepers, recently I got my first aboreal T as a sling. I'm keeping 2 terrestial T's currently (1 B. hamorii (ex. smithi) at 6cm length and 1 G. pulchripes that I got as a sling who's grown to 2,5cm) I'm not really sure what enclosure is optimal for a C. versicolor sling...