I'm pretty sure you're not gonna be able to use that in identifying gender in 1" slings. The only way you will have a remote chance to figure out gender with such a small sling is with an exivium and microscope.Smaller w/ shorter legs could indicate a female. That is by no means a hard and fast rule but if one looks leggy and another doesn't, get the non-leggy one. I'm sure he can also answer any questions you have. I'd imagine Botar knows a thing or two about arachnids.
Yea you're on the right track, but I believe 1" is too small to distinguish that. I say you start noticing size differences at 2"(+/- a little bit). Also, there are too many variables affecting the growth rate of a T, so you can't really nail it down to size. Sometimes you get lucky by picking the smallest ones.Paul, you don't think that at 1"+/- the males would be a little bigger? I know it's not even a remotely accurate method of sexing but still... If i'm looking at a whole bunch of slings i'd figure the slower growing ones are more likely to be fems. Of course i could be just advertising my ignorance here...
Were you small with short legs when you were a baby? LMAOBotar picked out a G. pulchra for me.. the smallest one (less than a fourth of an inch) back in 2003. Now its a big fat GIRL so I say pick the smallest one.
I would personally ask him which one he would recommend. I'm sure he'll be more than glad to help you pick one out.Ok...next week I am getting my G. aureostriata from a local dealer (Botar by Eights) and I am going to his house to pick my tarantula out (he has several in stock).
What do you look for when picking out a one inch sling?
THAT, my dear Brian, is something you'll forever have to wonder about.Last time I saw OldHag she was pretty leggy lookin' too!! You dont reckon she could be a crossdresser do you?
but I don't think having a male over a female would bother me much to be honest.
You sound like me, I think I said that back in may. Lol! fast forward five months and you'll have 20 tarantulas, and debating on buying yet another bookshelf to display all your lovelys. Yes, a wish list with the "must have's" and the "maybe's" is a good idea. Don't deviate from your list (too much) another good idea is to set a limit on the number of T's that you want at any given time...mine is 20, thats about 2 hours of upkeeping a week, for me anyway. Wow, I'm chatty this morning!Very true.
Though, as my first spider, it will be a bit of test run, really. I meant that though I would be slightly depressed if it ended up being a male, but I could deal with it. Unfortunately I like a great deal of short lived pets (rats, bettas, some other fish species) and a male would just be another one of those.
I think the next guys I will purchase sexed females, simply because they will be pets over anything else.
I do wish I have self control though. I look through the different species..I just need to stop looking (there's already a list of them I want). But I think an A. versicolor will be number two--in a few months.