Settle an issue please, can a T.blondi jump?

[Peter Lacey]

I saw a couple today up for £125, not even fully grown. I could get a discount on that if anyone's interested but I'm not sure I'd be happy about sending such an expensive tarantula through the post.

[andrew donaldson]

id paid 90 notes of recent for my captive bred girl otherwise id have been interested.id think a heat pack would be nessecary personally in such crap weather tho

[wayne balcombe]

the issue i'm finding at the moment is as stated above, they are being sold too often as females when in truth they are males and the worst thing is you usually dont find out till you get the spider home. the last 2 i bought where advertised as female and i've sexed them both as males since.

[Yvonne Woolley]

Well that made my eyebrows raise alittle too, I too started with exo terra vivs and the mesh is scary at times Mick my hubbh made clear plastic lids where needed,

[andrew donaldson]

i negoiated as regards getting a female when i did get it the first thing i looked for was the bump on the underneath of the abdomen(epigastric furrow) it was jutting out a good quarter inch and defo not part of its leg .it was in a standing position in a large deli cup wich helped.apparently this was out of 35 blondis at said warehouse/stockist

[wayne balcombe]

its not a bump you look for andrew its the epiandrous fusillae, just above the epigastric furrow between the proximal pair of book lungs, only males have these.

[andrew donaldson]

sorry got my wording mixed up there my fault.ok usually when ventral sexing a female blondi has a marking between the top two pair of booklungs of a belt or line.compared to the male who has a small but perfect triangle in the same place.as i was able to see the t from the side i could clearly see the sex was defined by the presence of a flap of skin(forgot name) protruding from the underneath of abdomen at sidewards view.identical to the previous blondi i had.w/c from hollybush wich was blatantly obvious female at 9inch!

[scott wilson]

Jumping Blondis?

Id just like to add that my own T Blondi matilda [ 10" female ] is the laziest bugger ive ever owned...she rarely moves out of her burrow and the idea of her hanging from the ceiling is ridiculous...she will venture out maybe once a day for a stretch and that's it. it does annoy me how the english language is being stripped down to "text" speak.....if you cant write in proper english DONT BOTHER AT ALL. GRRRRRRR