Thanks for all your help. Here's a bit bette picture of her...Actually a few moments ago she didn't look too good I hear when a Taranutla is sick and/or dieing they're legs kinda curl up inwards...and hers were kinda curled up, but I dunno for sure, it might be my over worriedness kicking in again

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Very pretty. Yes when a tarantula dies or is dying then it will curl its legs inwards and kind of shrivel up,. have you ever seen a dead house spider? However, if yours isn't still doing it then i'm sure she's fine - she could have been preening herself, webbing, drinking,.. i'm sure she's fine.

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She's not shrivled up anymore and what is preening herself? I've never heard that term before and can they drink without the water bowl? Also, I dropped a cricket and I need your guys' opinion on this. She doesn't automatically go for the cricket, I don't think I've ever seen her go straight for the thing. She waits till the thign gets close then goes for it. Same thing happened a few minutes ago except she didnt get it, cricket wondered off and then back again and she went for it but couldn't get it. Now the crickets in some corner trying to get out lol. Should I take the cricket out? Or is she just having trouble getting it. I won't keep it in there the whole day though :P. Also, how important is misting? My pet guy said to do it at least once a day for humidity purposes, making sure not to get her wet and how much should I be misting if I should be indeed misting? Just a few sprays(little) or get the subtrate darker in color (lots) and one more thing, How important is it to have decorations; ie wall paper, plants, rocks, habba huts lol. I had a plant(fake) in there and a habba but, but I don't think I like this habba hut thing, I could swear its kinda growing some kinda mold, so I took it out, I also took out the plant for now so all I got in it is the subtrate, T, and water dish.

Ok, firstly by preening I mean cleaning herself,. they will move their pedipalps about and "preen" with their legs and pedipalps. She may have been drinking - I have seen ours sometimes with water from her fangs where she has gone to the water bowl and kept some water. More likely she was just preening though.

Second, re. the cricket - if she wants it she will not miss it. If she looked like she went for it but missed it as you say, then she was probably attacking it to get it away rather than to eat. Leave it in a little while longer if you want and then take it out if she hasn't had it. They will often wait for the cricket to come to them rather than chase about after it, and she knows it's there, but if she doesn't take it soon then take it out. We sometimes leave a cricket in over night and if its not gone in the morning take it out.

Re. misting - have you got a humidity gauge? - they require humidity of 50-80% depending on where you read. We don't see it necessary to mist daily as we have slightly moist soil as substrate and that keeps it as humid as it needs to be. If it appears to be quite dry in there though then by all means mist the enclosure or the soil a little, but don't get it really wet. If it is too wet then you will notice the T will climb the walls and sit high on any furniture you have in there all the time rather than walk on the floor. Never mist the T though - spraying a T with water is to the T like you are boxing its ears and it will not appreciate it. During times of molt though you do need to increase humidity a bit to make sure the T can molt properly.

Re. cage furniture, for your T it isn't necessary to have lots of decor in there. The T won't appreciate any plants or such but if you want it to look nice for you then you can put them in out of personal preference. You might want to have some kind of bark or hide in there, where the T will likely want to go and hide when it's molting. Also a shallow water bowl with fresh water in. For Ts like indian ornamentals its necessary to have something like a branch or a high piece of bark in there as they are aboreal and like to climb, but your T won't use anything like that. Again if you want to deck out the tank for your visual wants then you can, but you really don't need to.

We have our chile rose (the largest of our Ts at the moment) in a glass tank that measures about 12" x 8" x 8" (no bigger as a large enclosure can stress a T out). We have soil as substrate, about 4" deep, incase she wants to burrow, although chiles aren't burrowing Ts so she doesn't make burrows in the way that a cobalt blue T would. We have a piece of bark that she can go under or climb on top of, and a small shallow water bowl. Simple but providing all she needs. Something like a chile should not be housed in a high enclosure as they are not aboreal and if they fall from a height they can burst their abdomens often resulting in a fatality.

Hope this helps.

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Well I don't think she was preeening...at the time she wasn't really moving at all. Ok my tank right now is a uh...10 gallon with measures of 20x11x10, is that a bit too big? I do have a 5 gallon old fish tank(not in use ne more) that measures 12x8x5.5. So maybe her legs curled in was cause she's stressed :S?

If they're not curled up anymore then i'm certain you don't have anything to worry about. She'll have been doing something only known to her

How big is the T? She doesn't look fully grown in the picture, I think the smaller tank would be better, but I doubt she was curled up because she was stressed. She will be fine.

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Azrael is 7 months old and she's easily fits in my palm I don't know how big she is exactly :S, but I just got off the phone with the pet store that I bought her from and it seems the guy that sold me her is no longer there (the one that set me up with a 10 gallon ) so I think he kinda screwed me around a bit, but! I'm gonna go pick up a 5 gallon and then Ill have tanks of all szies (turns out that 5 I said I had is a 2 which is good for spiderlings which move ont ot he 5 when their older and then the 10 when they're big big) Wish me luck!

Great, sounds good Don't get rid of the 10g as you may be able to use it when your T gets fully grown, or if you want to get another that grows even bigger! Always good to have spare tanks around, however we usually find that if we have one spare it isn't spare for long

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Well I got my 5 Gallon one now and Azraels just clinging to the walls cause she doesn't know where she is lol. It looks a lot more better (i know it's a bad sentence) for her, and I got a smaller habba hut. Here's another question. Lighting. I know Rose hairs are pretty hearty and don't need any special heating (unless you live in a very cold house for some strange reason) and room temp is good, but what about UV? I currently have a Full spectrum bulb, but I haven't gotten around to installing it just yet. I know you wouldn't leave it on constantly, but is it recommended or no?

Also, Does anyone know anything(ie hertiness, handleable, living conditions) about Tiger Rumps, Brazlliian blacks, and costa rican's? The pet store just got some in stock, I hear the B.B. is one of the most docile T's around and make very good starter T's.