I got home to this very sad scene this afternoon. She was just hanging there with a large drop of clear liquid at here mouth. I fed her and my other T's on saterday night and hope that there wasn't something wrong with the crickets. Any guesses to what might have caused it...

Probably just old age. These don't live very long and don't moult after their maturing moult either.

That's bad man shame. I have 2 females both ready to drop some eggs hope all goes well, They are eating like pigs at the moment.

Sorry to hear that bud

Ceratogyrus wrote: Probably just old age. These don't live very long and don't moult after their maturing moult either.

How long do they live? Been thinking of keeping one or two of these, but they are wandering spiders, is it really fair keeping them locked up?

Swifty wrote:

Ceratogyrus wrote: Probably just old age. These don't live very long and don't moult after their maturing moult either.

How long do they live? Been thinking of keeping one or two of these, but they are wandering spiders, is it really fair keeping them locked up?

Females around 3-4 years.
As long as they have a large enough enclosure, they should be fine. A usual arboreal tank will work just fine. Not much different to keeping a male tarantula that wanders a lot really.