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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
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| 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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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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- 1 grey banded kingsnake "muffin"
- 4 leopard geckos "veronica simon ed and harley"
- 1 bearded dragon "ziggy"
- 1 yellow bellied slider "kristan"
- 1 eastern painted turtle "meelo"
- 1 creamsicle cornsnake "tangelo"
- soon......
- 2 veiled chameleons
- 1 veitnamese blue beauty snake
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| 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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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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- 1 grey banded kingsnake "muffin"
- 4 leopard geckos "veronica simon ed and harley"
- 1 bearded dragon "ziggy"
- 1 yellow bellied slider "kristan"
- 1 eastern painted turtle "meelo"
- 1 creamsicle cornsnake "tangelo"
- soon......
- 2 veiled chameleons
- 1 veitnamese blue beauty snake
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I can't see the picture. It will be alright to move it. It will make another web.
- Bearded Dragon
- 2 Viper Geckos
- Sinaloan Milksnake
- 145 Tarantulas and counting
- 1 trap door spider
- 8 scorpions
- 4 Birds
- 3 gallon Male Betta
- Baby red devil/Midas cichlid
- 7 gallon nano reef tank
- 125 gallon freshwater tank.
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thank you so much she is now in her new substrate ill keep everyone updated
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(____________) _________________________ - my herps
- 1 grey banded kingsnake "muffin"
- 4 leopard geckos "veronica simon ed and harley"
- 1 bearded dragon "ziggy"
- 1 yellow bellied slider "kristan"
- 1 eastern painted turtle "meelo"
- 1 creamsicle cornsnake "tangelo"
- soon......
- 2 veiled chameleons
- 1 veitnamese blue beauty snake
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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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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)
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(____________) _________________________ - my herps
- 1 grey banded kingsnake "muffin"
- 4 leopard geckos "veronica simon ed and harley"
- 1 bearded dragon "ziggy"
- 1 yellow bellied slider "kristan"
- 1 eastern painted turtle "meelo"
- 1 creamsicle cornsnake "tangelo"
- soon......
- 2 veiled chameleons
- 1 veitnamese blue beauty snake
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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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