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<blockquote data-quote="Steph" data-source="post: 28420" data-attributes="member: 3015"><p>Hello, it's been a few weeks since I checked in. About a month ago I got a Brachypelma smithi sling (about 3/4" in size) and we've been getting along well. She (I know it's too early to tell, but I'm hoping its a female) molted about 3 days ago and all seems to have gone well during that transformation. My first question is: how many days should I wait before I offer her a fruit fly? I know freshly molted T's need time for their new outer skin to toughen up before it's safe to offer them a prey item, but I'm not sure how long the waiting period should be. </p><p>Another thing is, I've got the sling in a sling-sized enclosure from I got from Jaime's Tarantulas. It's about 2.75" square by 4 1/2" tall and the sling has dug her burrow into the coconut bark substrate in such a way that for me to get to her shed skin to remove it, I'd have to very carefully pour the substrate out onto a newspaper (or whatever) and the poor spiderling would come tumbling after. I just don't think, for her sake, that'd be a very safe thing to do. The sling has taken the shed skin and sort of tucked it into the substrate wall of her burrow, so it seems to be out of her way. I'd just as soon not traumatize her by doing this, so I'm inclined to leave things as they are. It's gonna be enough of an undertaking when it comes time to move her into the next-sized bigger enclosure. How do you guys feel about this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steph, post: 28420, member: 3015"] Hello, it's been a few weeks since I checked in. About a month ago I got a Brachypelma smithi sling (about 3/4" in size) and we've been getting along well. She (I know it's too early to tell, but I'm hoping its a female) molted about 3 days ago and all seems to have gone well during that transformation. My first question is: how many days should I wait before I offer her a fruit fly? I know freshly molted T's need time for their new outer skin to toughen up before it's safe to offer them a prey item, but I'm not sure how long the waiting period should be. Another thing is, I've got the sling in a sling-sized enclosure from I got from Jaime's Tarantulas. It's about 2.75" square by 4 1/2" tall and the sling has dug her burrow into the coconut bark substrate in such a way that for me to get to her shed skin to remove it, I'd have to very carefully pour the substrate out onto a newspaper (or whatever) and the poor spiderling would come tumbling after. I just don't think, for her sake, that'd be a very safe thing to do. The sling has taken the shed skin and sort of tucked it into the substrate wall of her burrow, so it seems to be out of her way. I'd just as soon not traumatize her by doing this, so I'm inclined to leave things as they are. It's gonna be enough of an undertaking when it comes time to move her into the next-sized bigger enclosure. How do you guys feel about this? [/QUOTE]
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