GBB - comes home tomorrow!

[recycling goddess]

and we are hoping she is a girl LOL - but regardless... she's still under a year old right now... so we have at least one more year if she's a boy...

[Schlyne]

Girl Ts have been known to live 25 years.. males usually don't last past one or two.

That timeline is species dependant unforunately. Females still live longer and males usually don't make it past two years after maturing. The Brachy's and the Aphonopelma's are the ones that can go for 25+ years. Typical lifespan of an Avicularia species (pinktoes) is about 8 years. For a lot of the others, lifespan is around 10 to 15.

Males typically don't make it past through post ultimate molt. Ultimate molt would be when they mature out with hooks and palps. It's been theorized that the males are unable to get the palps out with the next molt, which is why many of them die in that molt attempt. A few males have made it past that, but most of them end up losing the pedipalps in post ultimate molt.

Btw, if you end up with a male GBB, you should send him out for a breeding loan and do a 50/50 split. You could end up with half of an eggsack of babies GBB's if everything goes well

[JLC]

You could end up with half of an eggsack of babies GBB's if everything goes well

~shudder shudder shudder shudder~ yeeeeeeeeessshhhhhhh! LOL!! I've worked hard to overcome my fear and loathing of spiders...even held a tarantula at a reptile show once to prove to myself that they weren't "icky".....but the thought of eggsacks of them...makes my whole body want to curl up and hide under the keyboard! ...

[recycling goddess]

that would be a great idea...

thanks for the suggestion... getting some babies out of this one would be great indeed!

[$nake$]

what time did you get HE/SHE yesterday?

[recycling goddess]

we picked her up on sunday. andi'm already planning my next purchase... an OBT (thanks andrew!) i'm in love with those photos!!!