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<blockquote data-quote="haily33621" data-source="post: 163064" data-attributes="member: 31343"><p>Hi everyone,</p><p>I have a Brazilian black tarantula sling. </p><p>I’ve had her for about two months. She is my first eight legged friend. She had a difficult trip here, as FedEx lost her. She is about 3 inches. I got her a glass cage and have a humidity and temperature monitor. I was stressed about both indicators and had a spray bottle handy.</p><p></p><p>In my head I thought a few things:</p><p>1. This girl’s species lived out in the wild with heat, sun, droughts, large and small insects, etc.</p><p>2. If she could live out there, she should be able to live in a FANCY cage.</p><p></p><p>we went out of town for Christmas and let her be. She hadn’t eaten in two weeks, but apparently that is pretty normal, slings (from what I researched) molt two times a month. She hid under her log for two weeks until we came back home. My husband told me to lift up the log... to make sure she was alive. Instead we took pictures. I could slightly see her but she seemed to be up against the log. We waited and the next day we looked again. Gave her a cricket and waited until that evening. I lifted up the log because the pictures seemed to show her in the death curl (and I’m so new at this). After doing so, she came out! And left a molt. Please give your T’s time and don’t disturb them. If we had done this a day or two earlier she could have been mid molt and we could have hurt her....</p><p>below is a picture of her when we got her, the picture we saw under the log, her molt, and her new fresh outer layer.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]42638[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haily33621, post: 163064, member: 31343"] Hi everyone, I have a Brazilian black tarantula sling. I’ve had her for about two months. She is my first eight legged friend. She had a difficult trip here, as FedEx lost her. She is about 3 inches. I got her a glass cage and have a humidity and temperature monitor. I was stressed about both indicators and had a spray bottle handy. In my head I thought a few things: 1. This girl’s species lived out in the wild with heat, sun, droughts, large and small insects, etc. 2. If she could live out there, she should be able to live in a FANCY cage. we went out of town for Christmas and let her be. She hadn’t eaten in two weeks, but apparently that is pretty normal, slings (from what I researched) molt two times a month. She hid under her log for two weeks until we came back home. My husband told me to lift up the log... to make sure she was alive. Instead we took pictures. I could slightly see her but she seemed to be up against the log. We waited and the next day we looked again. Gave her a cricket and waited until that evening. I lifted up the log because the pictures seemed to show her in the death curl (and I’m so new at this). After doing so, she came out! And left a molt. Please give your T’s time and don’t disturb them. If we had done this a day or two earlier she could have been mid molt and we could have hurt her.... below is a picture of her when we got her, the picture we saw under the log, her molt, and her new fresh outer layer. [ATTACH type="full"]42638[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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