Brachypelma hamorii 1 year of growth
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reddit.comPosted Mar 10, 2023, 11:32 AM UTC
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reddit.comThat’s a super spider for sure!
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Look at those sweet eyes and shy little legs. So cute
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I was not prepared for that adorable little face
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Are you sure that it is a female? Growth that fast for that species I just don't feel like it would be a female I've had males grow that fast, but my last female took almost 3 years to get to that size.
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I completely understand being skeptical about it, and to be completely honest, I was about 90% sure, but I did double check it now with the best sexing setup I came up with (that has proven to be successful) and now I think I can't mistake this one!
https://imgur.com/a/DNlH2MU here's an album with a couple of photos I managed to take and the setup itself.
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I guess it is female because those pictures are definitely from a female. That's crazy, you got lucky as hell man! Good on ya!
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Haha, yeah, I'm not complaining at all! All 3 of my Ts have been very satisfying to raise. And to top it off, all 3 turned out to be females.
It makes me wonder about a male's growth under my care, if they're supposedly going to grow faster, but I'm okay with getting only females too, lol
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Dude I had a male smithi that I got at 1/2" and it hooked out in a year and a half I was pissed! But when your buying slings it really is the luck of the draw and it looks like you've been lucky lol
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That looks like aggressive growth for a B. Hamorii. In 2.5 years my sling wasn't nearly this big. What are you feeding that thing?!
I feed her turk roaches. For the first 2 or 3 molts I fed twice a week, a roach similar in size to the T's body size. Then reduced to once a week, because she was getting too chonky.
She doesn't skip meals and usually attacks the prey instantly. When approaching premolt/during premolt she sometimes lets the prey come closer to her and only then strikes, as opposed to pouncing at them the second they touch the ground.
You can see on the final slide how long she was fasting before molting. In 2 out of 5 cases, it was less than the regular feeding cycle. She once skipped 2 meals, and on the latest molt, I chose not to feed her, since she was quite tubby, very late into the molt and I was expecting to see her lay the molting mat any day. 3 days later she did begin to lay the mat and less than 2 days after she molted.
Other than this, I suppose the temps play a major part in her growth rate. I'm trying to keep them above 24*C all year. During the warmer days the temps oscillate between 25-29*C. During the heat wave they've been reaching over 32 and I was trying to cool them off by putting a bottle with frozen water in front of a fan, to blow some cool air in the direction of the enclosures. The lowest temp I've recorded was about 20*C. I was away from home for a while and came back late at night, when it was freezing outside. Then I took immediate action to warm up the room a little, before going to sleep.