Slings

[Brachypelma albopilosum]

I bought some slings and iam looking for more information.
I bought these species:
Heteroscodra maculata
Brachypelma vagans
Kochiana brunnides
Chilobrachys fimbriatus
Phormictopus cancerious

 

[Jess S]

What do you want to know? Also, how big are the slings?

All slings need slightly moist substrate and 2-3" of it so they can burrow if they want to. Plus a water dish and hide.

The H. maculata and C. fimbriatus are advanced Old World species and both have nasty venom particularly the H. Mac. It probably has one of the worst tarantula venoms. Both will be lightning quick, can bolt out of the enclosure in the blink of an eye, and will not hesitate to bite if they feel threatened.

The H. Mac is arboreal so you'll need an enclosure with a bit of height, like a delicup for the H mac with a piece of corkbark planted into the substrate and leaning against the side for its hide. It'll burrow at the base, web and make dirt curtains.

The C. fimbriatus is more moisture dependant so the substrate needs to be moist (not wet) all the time. They burrow but they also web heavily so you need to supply anchor points. As adults some people let them have deep 6+ substrate and they tend to be petholes. Other people just have a couple inches substrate and supply anchor points and they fill up their enclosures with tunnelled webbing that they live inside.

So that's a little info to start you off, but if you let us know the sizes of the slings, people who keep these species can fill you in on how they keep them.

 

[Brachypelma albopilosum]

What do you want to know? Also, how big are the slings?

All slings need slightly moist substrate and 2-3" of it so they can burrow if they want to. Plus a water dish and hide.

The H. maculata and C. fimbriatus are advanced Old World species and both have nasty venom particularly the H. Mac. It probably has one of the worst tarantula venoms. Both will be lightning quick, can bolt out of the enclosure in the blink of an eye, and will not hesitate to bite if they feel threatened.

The H. Mac is arboreal so you'll need an enclosure with a bit of height, like a delicup for the H mac with a piece of corkbark planted into the substrate and leaning against the side for its hide. It'll burrow at the base, web and make dirt curtains.

The C. fimbriatus is more moisture dependant so the substrate needs to be moist (not wet) all the time. They burrow but they also web heavily so you need to supply anchor points. As adults some people let them have deep 6+ substrate and they tend to be petholes. Other people just have a couple inches substrate and supply anchor points and they fill up their enclosures with tunnelled webbing that they live inside.

So that's a little info to start you off, but if you let us know the sizes of the slings, people who keep these species can fill you in on how they keep them.

They're about 1 cm