If you assume an average egg-laying period of 15 to 20 years with 100 to 500 eggs per sac and one reproductive cycle per year, she may have 1500 to 10,000 babies in a lifetime. If your rosie is an adult, that is not an unusual amount of time. SPONSOR A TARANTULA Pink Toe Tarantula Avicularia avicularia Pink toe tarantulas are very good pets due to their docile nature. Before molting occurs, your pet tarantula will eat very little. r/tarantulas: Post questions and concerns about keeping tarantulas, pictures of your specimens, any interesting articles you find, and anything else … Press J to jump to the feed. Female tarantulas may reach maturity at 2 to 5 years and live for 20 to 30 years. Ideally, the screen lid should be covered or replaced. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Food and Feeding The Pink-toed Tarantula or Pink-toed Tree Spider is an aggressive feeder. During this process it is extremely important to not disturb it … Do not feed freshly molted tarantulas for several days [young] to two weeks [adults]. Antilles pink toe tarantulas are very dependent on good humidity, so make sure you spray the tank often and keep it as humid as possible. It takes about seven weeks for the eggs to hatch. I have lost more tarantulas during or after a molt than any other time. It also helps to have a shallow water dish to sate their need. (Tarantulas, even good climbers like Avics, can get their tarsal claws stuck in the mesh.) I believe that in the wild, this is how most tarantulas … also how often do they molt? Determining the sex of a tarantula can be tricky though, especially when it is younger as male and female tarantulas will often look and act extremely similar until mature. How often you feed them and the temperature plays a role in moulting. These two threads contain helpful information: If it's approaching adult size, those do take longer. Tarantulas do not grow at a set rate, so age doesn't mean anything for them. In order to grow, the baby spiders need to pass through several molts, a process by which they shed the old exoskeleton, emerging in a fresh, larger one. If your tarantula is still very small, odds aren't good that it's still alive. However, if you say it's an inch in legspan or four inches in legspan or whatever, people will know what you're talking about. Do male tarantulas die after mating? It’s certainly possible and easy to breed antilles pink toe tarantulas in captivity. Recuperating from the molting stage takes about a week, sometimes even up to two weeks for adult tarantulas. It may take an adult tarantula up to eight (8) hours to complete a molt. However, offering food every 4-7 days for young spiders and every 10-14 for larger specimens is a reasonable regimen.