venturing into Ts

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Originally Posted by threezero

your brazilian black are they fast growers?. I never thought i would say that about a bug until i got into Ts lol. Manage to take a photo of my red rump today. I look up picture of male vs females online and i still no idea what to think about mine :confusd:

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From what I keep reading they are really slow growing. Especially the females. Watch the video of the Mexican red rump that wrestles the large mouse. Literally tossing it around. Pretty intense.

This is the bracjypelma albiceps (Mexican golden red rump) and setup I picked up for my little brother a few months back. He named him Aragog. Lol
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Is that a 5gallon? thats looks very cool!i will keep that in mind when the little guy is bigger. I have so many ideas for vivariums now, i just need these little buggers to grow up so i can move them into bigger enclosures :rolleyes: How fast do pokeys grow?

so i think my suntiger is settling in perfectly. both the b.vagan and suntiger is chowing on crickets no problem. The suntiger sling however is doing something strange, i have him in a pill bottle and he havn't web it up at all, but i notice that he has been moving around the same little ball of substrate. Seems like almost everytime i'm checking on him he is fussing over that little ball moving it around the pill bottle, or he is hanging upside down with that ball of substrate in its mouth:confusd:

I know it recommended to feed them once a week but they seems so eager to feed espeically the b.vagans, i throw in around 5 baby cricket and he snatch it all up within 3 second and sat around looking really content with 5 crickets in its mouth. It look like it could eat the whole cricket bin if i let it. are they able to regulate how much they eat or will they stuff themselves to death if given the chance?

Yeah over feeding, like an any animal, isn't a good idea.
They can be opportunistic feeders.

feeding once a day too much? or can smaller slings be feed more often than the bigger ones?

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Originally Posted by threezero

feeding once a day too much? or can smaller slings be feed more often than the bigger ones?

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Feeding once a day is way too much. Once every 5-7 days is the norm. Prey should be about the size of their abdomen or smaller.

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Originally Posted by TVR22

Feeding once a day is way too much. Once every 5-7 days is the norm. Prey should be about the size of their abdomen or smaller.

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This.

gotta. I will hold off on feeding. It so exciting to watch them catch prey:D

Or I have a better idea, get more spiders and space it out so i can feed different ones everyday:P

just pick up 2 p.regalis slings. hoping one would be male and another would be female

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Here's the bigger one of the two. I'm hoping this one would be a female, the other one from the same sack is half the size of this one
there bugger are fast! rehousing them gave me a rush lol

Have you read the bite reports on them yet?

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/show...theria-regalis

Not to sound like a jerk but... If you are asking questions about feeding, I don't think you are ready for any Poecilotheria.

It's your call. Good luck and be safe.