Better be worth it...lol ours is a .75in sling...Long wait to see some colour
2 inches... I learned this the hard way.
They're all not destined to grow slowly. Keep them warm and feed them well and many will grow almost fast. In one year my 1" sling got to 3.5"....appears female as well....its now 4" in about a year and a half. Mine's always been a fantastic eater though, that's key...I've raised a B. vagans that grew so slowly until it hit an inch, simply because its appetite was terrible...since that 1" mark its growing so much faster its hard to believe its the same t....molt periods down from 80-111 days to 30-40 days and now growth is good, before it was barely noticeable.
Not that long for some colour. First picture is about a month after arrival, September 9, 2014. Not sure of the size at that time, and there is nothing there for scale. The second photo is a shot of when i recently measured her with some software I use. I can't attest to the accuracy of it, it works similar to the on-line snake-widget measuring tool, but stands alone without having to upload a picture. It shows the spider at 1.92, and the photo I used was taken on May 4th, 2015, just a bit shy of 7 months after I took the first one. So, you get a rough idea of the colour and growth over seven months, roughly. So you won't have to wait THAT long for some colour.
It is...my albiceps was brutal when tiny. In a full year it went from 3/8" to just under an inch...it would eat 2-3 times between molts and when it did...you really couldn't tell...growth was seemingly non-existent....but once it hit an inch it fed better, and molted quicker...after that its been an eating machine like someone flipped a switch on the thing.
OMG, I ENVY you. I don't have any friends with T's.....otherwise I'd be at THEIR house all the time LOL.
My local Petsmart has a deal on crickets every day. For all sizes, you buy 1, it's 13 cents. Buy 10, it's 12 cents. Buy 20, it's 11 cents. All the way down to 9 cents per cricket.
