curly hair help

[Lija]

anyhow i don't think i will try to take it out anytime soon to check on sex, male or female not a big difference at this point, as long as it is happy, but i bet at its size it would be possible to determine that, i think I'll wait for the shed to try to do that, dead skin can't stress out that bold spot should be gone after shed, right?

presenting Jamie sitting on its favorite spot on a cork, i saw him yesterday walking around late at night, sitting on a water dish, then back to burrow, this am he is on the same spot on a cork again , how old it can be?

[Hypnotic]

It looks like a good size to sex, but we'll need to see a picture of the front legs and even with the pedipalps missing ,the only 100% sure way is to check through the molt. Note, that bald spot you were referring too is caused by stress, something or someone is stressing your tarantula, mine had that bald spot after I accidently thought a dubia was eaten, but it was still in there.
So find the source of stress and emediately remove it.
When you went near him, was he flicking hairs at you? did you see his backleg rubbing his hind body?

[Lija]

see the beginning of the thread my daughter used to lift up the cork he has burrow under every day to check on him and spray his tank and him included every day too. now the source of stress is removed and nobody even opens the cage, unless me here to take a pic or to feed. will do pic, any side of front legs in particular?

no i didn't see, but i wasn't really looking either

[Hypnotic]

Seems I mixed my names up, sorry. "Sexing adults is simple for adult males because most have the distinctive tibial spurs on
the underside of the front legs". (pedipalps are the two smaller ones, and these are increased in size on males)
If your spider has them, they should be easy to spot, they look like hooks on the spiders front walking legs.

[Lija]

no, no hooks present, should i assume it is a female and wait for a shed to confirm?