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greybanded9 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:51:09 GMT

she is back to normal she was recently shedding and is now happy and lovable again and what a meanie she is to others she just likes me no one else tho ha ha ha ha i'm speical

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Joeseph — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:20:01 GMT

don't feel bad out of 20 Ts I only have one that is cuddly.... the rest hate me = /

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Katschamne — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:55:56 GMT

Usually but not always, they give warning signs that you have to interpret their actions. We have some that are cage defencive. Once out of their cage they are fine. If you use a paint brush or tongs etc to encourage them to come out of their enclosure once they move up the side but your hand out and have them walk on it themselves.

Sometimes their attitudes change when they have either just molted or are going to molt.

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greybanded9 — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:45 GMT

recently she has been aggrasive and she bit me and she never does that

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Joeseph — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:13:39 GMT

ya I looked over a list my friend had it is mostly old world Ts that have no hooks although I'm sure a few new world species don't ether.

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Katschamne — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:25:08 GMT

Joeseph (3/26/2009)

Ya not all males get hooks though, this male H mac I am trying to breed to my female with no success hasnt got any hook. He does have boxing gloves though.

You are right about that. I don't think pokey's get the hooks either. I do believe that they all get the boxing gloves though. The reason that I talked about the hooks is that the G. rosea does have them. and it is an easy way to tell with them. Hubby said that there is a list but he can't find it that tells all the species that don't get hooks.

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Joeseph — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:28:15 GMT

Ya not all males get hooks though, this male H mac I am trying to breed to my female with no success hasnt got any hook. He does have boxing gloves though.

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Katschamne — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:18:38 GMT

Yea, males will only live about 2 years after he "hooks out". They get tibial hooks on the front set of legs. Females live the 20+ years. Like Joseph said they aren't sure how long they actually live.

It isn't uncommon that in a pet store that you have mature males. A lot rose hairs are still wild caught. When they collect the species in the wild the males are the ones that are out wondering around. Making them easier to catch. If you are buying from a pet store you can ask if they are WC or CBB. If it is a sling then it is usually at least CB. At my store before we stopped carrying tarantulas only 1 out of 4 was a female. One was a mature male and our first one we bought it "hooked out" a year after we got him.

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greybanded9 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:02:30 GMT

ya i guess so i felt reALLY BAD so i wanted to c if it was really the T or was it me

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The Slowest Turtle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:04 GMT

greybanded9 (3/10/2009)

thank you she was making a web so a shed will be expected then i will find out then but she is not redoing her web since i changed bedding and she wont burrow either but again the male was its last shedding and i was told at first they only live 1 year so i predicted he was 10 months because because he lived 2 months sorry for the confusion im new to tarantulas (but not reptiles)

If you recently replaced the substrate then it will take some time for them to calm down/get used to the new place.

G rosea (rose hair) is a long lived tarantula. They haven't been kept in captivity long enough to accuratly say how long they live. 10 years to 40+ years is all that can be guessed. So your mature male was on its last leg to begin with

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greybanded9 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:18:43 GMT

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The Slowest Turtle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:59:37 GMT

Katschamne (3/9/2009)

It all depends on the size of the tarantula not the age of it weather you can sex it.

This is true , but if the OPs G rosea is only 10 months old then it will be too small/young to tell its sex. They grow extemly slow, even when power feeding. Thats why I siad it was too young to sex, should have been clear on that.

Here is a pic of a G rosea molt. Notice the "flap" between the tongs, thats the "woman parts"

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greybanded9 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:38:20 GMT

thank you so much she is now in her new substrate ill keep everyone updated

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Katschamne — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:22:26 GMT

I can't see the picture. It will be alright to move it. It will make another web.

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greybanded9 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:33:07 GMT

right now she has cocnut fibers but we are going to change it to peat moss she made a web so should i just wait or is it ok and she will just make another because i dont want to cause too much stress heres a pic of her tank tell me wat you think

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Katschamne — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:51:32 GMT

How big is it? Some people can sex them by looking at ventrally but it is more accurate to wait til you get a good molt and look for a flap on abdomen of the molt. That means it's a female.

It all depends on the size of the tarantula not the age of it weather you can sex it. We got a Pamphobeteus nigricolor-blue bloom in July it has molted twice, it's about 2.5 inches now. We ran into a guy on Saturday at the swap and he got his at the same time from the same person and his is already 6". Even the breeder was amazed. What he did is called power feeding. The more you feed and more often the faster it will grow. The problem with that if it is a male it will mature out faster then if you would feed it on a set schedule. So lets say it is a male so now rather then having it 7 years now you might have it two years. We feed most of ours once a week one large cricket. If it is a larger one or if just, molted and it grew a lot then we might feed it 2-3 crickets until it's abdomen is filled out better. On the flip side if it's abdomen is huge we might skip a week so it doesn't become obese. If the tarantula didn't eat the week before we also skip a week. It may not eat if it is getting ready to molt.

What Slowest turtle said is correct. If you use a coco fiber substrate, what I do is mix it up very dry. Basically I break it up and add very little hot water and mix it up. (You can always add more water to it but drying out the substrate if it is too wet takes awhile.) If the substrate is too wet the tarantula will sit on the hide or stick to the side until it dried to it's liking.

The one mistake people make is that we think the bigger the cage the better. This is not necessarily true for tarantulas. If you have an arboreal species then a tall cage is needed but then width is not a factor. On terrestrials you only want the cage to be 1 1/2 times the leg span of the spider. If the tarantula is a burrower you need a deep substrate so that they can tunnel down. If the cage is too tall you can always add more substrate to make it safer for the tarantula. If the tarantula is a sling you don't want to use a large water dish, a bottle cap is fine or just spray water in a small area in it's cage, once or twice a week.

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greybanded9 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:45:14 GMT

thank you and the male was my old one but this one is well im not sure but i just got it i dont know how old it is i would like to know how to tell

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The Slowest Turtle — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:57:45 GMT

A 10 month old Rose hair tarantula (grammostola rosea) is going to be too young to be able to determine the sex. They like a bone dry substrate. A water dish, & hide, some may or may not use the hide (mine doesn't use one). They are pretty easy to take care of.

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greybanded9 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:32:57 GMT

i just got one today and i had bad luck and got a 10 month old male well i wanted to know a easy way to tell male from female and any tips on keeping them and anything that would help plz and thank you