my new smithi

[DaveLawrence]

Yep! always ALWAYS wanted a smithi, and i picked one up last thursday..

really have no clue how to sex t's, only know how to do snakes/lizards!

here is a pic of him/her i took the other day.

could anyone point me in the direction to a tutorial on sexing t's?

[lee smith]

here is a link to the guide that i use at the T store; http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the.tar.../howto-sex.htm

i hope this helps

[DaveLawrence]

excellent thanks Lee, when the smithi & my avic moult, i will get the site loaded up and sit there for probably hours working it out!

[Mark Lynes]

Or if you want to sex using external features as I do where possible - http://www.birdspiders.com/faq_sex.html

Mark

[andy hood]

nice choice of spider dave congrats , there a lovely species, i have a spiderling smithi and cant wait for it to get its adult colouration

[Elaine Ross]

Congratulations Dave, she is gorgeous

Elaine

[DaveLawrence]

ok old topic but here is my smithi setup just redone, sorry bout the image size, messing about with raw images.

Also he molted today

[Neil Ashby]

Dave , take that sponge out of the water mate , its a haven for bacteria !

[DaveLawrence]

okies will do, just what the guy in the shop had for his spiders... does no one else use this?

[Colin D Wilson]

Nope, as Neil has said, its an extra bacteria breeding ground in the enclosure.
A lot of places reccommend these with the intention of stopping a spiderling dunking and drowning, i personally use boiled smooth round pea gravel to line the waterbowl, never had a drowning or, due to the extra weight, a spider decide to move the waterdish around and tip it over either (as they do sometimes)

[DaveLawrence]

brilliant thanks guys sponges will be removed asap

[DaveLawrence]

right ok best pic i could get of the shed, cropped it and zoomed in on the area.

[DaveLawrence]

any ideas? i thinking male

[George Santana]

Yup, I'd venture male from that pic as well.

Congrats