User Hobo's photos

OMG! Thanks for that link, Hobo! Simply astonishing!

Most gorgeous picture thread I've ever seen. I fell in love with all your spiders <3 Can't wait for my slings to reach an enormous size 8D

Great pics! How's your gbb holding up? Has she molted again??

iPippin said:

Most gorgeous picture thread I've ever seen. I fell in love with all your spiders <3 Can't wait for my slings to reach an enormous size 8D

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Thanks! I suspect you'll get some of enormous size long before that happens.

Oreo said:

Great pics! How's your gbb holding up? Has she molted again??

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She's in heavy premolt. It's nearing her yearly molt time so it should be any day now. Prepared for the worst, hoping for the best!


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So picked up a huge bin o' spiders this past weekend... more H. gabonesis to be exact!
15 or so adults + random juvies and spiderlings, cork, and a huge tank I still need to put together.
Here's the bin:


one of the presumably adult females




one of the tiny spiderlings


My index finger by comparison.
I hope I don't accidentally kill these when I'm putting these wood pieces in. They're living in the tiny crackes and pores.


Plus, I got some freebies!
A deli cup with at least 4 juvenile H. incei... here's the fattest one of 'em.


And a tiny N. tripepii

Brilliant pics of the above Hobo and all your other T pics, nice collection, hope your GBB molted well, keep us updated on that, love your Tripepii sling cute as hell.

MarkmD said:

Brilliant pics of the above Hobo and all your other T pics, nice collection, hope your GBB molted well, keep us updated on that, love your Tripepii sling cute as hell.

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Thanks!


Right on schedule, the GBB just finished molting a couple of hours ago, but she needed extracting:\
This time it was the leg that was bent during the last molt that got stuck. The palp and all other legs and things emerged by themselves, while the leg was still fully encased in her molt. I'm lucky I caught her before she had a chance to pop the leg off, but I'm tempted to just let that happen next time if it will cause her molt problems every year. Plucked her out. I'm getting quite good at this I think, it only took me about fifteen minutes to free the leg.


Stuck her back in.


And she flipped over on her own after a while.

From what I can tell, the palp is still bent funny, but as for the rest of her legs, I'm unsure until she starts stretching and wandering around. The leg I freed seems to be going the right way though.:biggrin:
Her carapace, at the very least, seems to be the right shape again.

Aww the poor girl. Good thing she has you Jason. I will let you know if I need help extractin' someday. Hows the big lasiodora difficilis doing?

Great job, once again! I'm, too, am glad she has a mindful keeper knower what he's doing there!

Crysta said:

Aww the poor girl. Good thing she has you Jason. I will let you know if I need help extractin' someday. Hows the big lasiodora difficilis doing?

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Thanks!
She's doing well. She still isn't a very good eater, and is still docile enough to handle. I'll get a pic of her soon.

Storm76 said:

Great job, once again! I'm, too, am glad she has a mindful keeper knower what he's doing there!

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Thanks. Though this time, I don't think she agrees...
The leg was still very much bent, and just like before, it would rest at an odd angle overlapping her palps. The good news is that this time her palps, carapace, chelicerae and other legs seem to be properly formed and not bent.
Unlike last time, though, she evidentally decided to scrap the gimp Leg I.




I can't find the thing anywhere, so I can only assume she ate it and stuck the bolus somewhere.
She is doing just fine otherwise, and should be eating things other than herself soon
Ah well. A couple more years and hopefully she'll be nearly as good as new.

Anyway, here's a shot of my H. gabonesis communal, that's been up for about a couple of weeks now I think.
Sneaking to watch in the middle of the night, there seems to be always something going on. I love it!






one of the tinier residents.


And one intrepid 6 - legged female has made a web hammock under the lip of the tank.

I wonder with how many you will end up eventually...

Got a couple of notable molts recently.

First, another "problem" molt, this time it's the P. antinous.


The patch of exo covering her booklung seems to have stuck onto her shed.




She lost a lof of blood, but was doing all of the regular molting things, so I decided to just leave her be. She molted right next ot the water dish anyway, so she could just reach over for a drink.


And drink she did. I realized she was very weak for about a month last time she molted too. I examined her molt, and found that she had a very similar, dried out injury there too, so I can only guess this was a pre existing molt problem that still hasn't corrected itself (she was burrowed last time, and destroyed most of that part of the molt).

Anyway, it looks bad, but she has pulled through as normal. Here's a pic of her about a week after the molt. Should be ready to eat in another week or so.


And the injury has dried out and darkened a little bit.


Second molt was significantly uneventful, but unexpected. My B. boehmei


This one didn't molt, but I said I'd get a pic of her. She still isn't eating


And, finally, I managed to get some decent shots of mating in my communal (which isn't too hard, they're doing this nearly every night, especially after a feeding or watering, it seems)












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Excellent thread, that Heterothele communal set up looks fantastic, shame about the Antinous, is she a Bolivian locale? Awkward and unusual injury being where it is, at least a lost/bleeding leg can be sealed without fear of chemicals leaching into critical areas whereas this injury would probably present a risk in itself trying to seal it, keep the pictures coming, good work!

Joe

It's warming up, so things have started molting!

First up is the X. immanis. She is getting HUGE.


Next, the little B. emilia (now probably a whole 2") molted. She's already on a yearly molting schedule!


And, the male N. chromatus has finally matured. He's looking pretty good!

most awesome thread ever i hope the mm has a girlfriend

^ Torantulas are the best!

Very nice H. gabonensis set-up, and your GBB is a survivor...plan to mate her?

maybe this is why they call them L. difficilis?

I would try keeping her dryer, see what happens. How long has she been not eating now for?

Good luck furthermore with the communal, Hobo! Sorry to hear about the Pampho, though. I had my share of bad molts recently and it's not easy to watch them struggle - luckily I didn't have to intervene since I only discovered their bad molts after they molted. But both have kinda bent legs, the Avic has trouble with leg-pair I + III and the H. villosella seems to have all feet bent upwards somehow. Just hoping it'll all go well and they'll adjust and correct the problems in the next molt.

Oh man, I gotta keep a closer eye on this...

Oreo said:

^ Torantulas are the best!

Very nice H. gabonensis set-up, and your GBB is a survivor...plan to mate her?

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No immediate plans to pair her right now, though if a MM is available, I'd consider giving it a shot. I'd be interested to see if she'd bother making a sac with one less leg.

Crysta said:

maybe this is why they call them L. difficilis?

I would try keeping her dryer, see what happens. How long has she been not eating now for?

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She was dry when she started acting like this. She ate about a month before I posted, and she finally "ate" again last week. Her eating habits are a bit strange. She will go through the motions of capturing and then wrapping prey, but sometimes after she drops it (during the wrapping), she just leaves it. When she doesn't, she just holds on to it and chews it up a little for almost two days. Most of the food item will be intact, so she is either eating very little or nothing at all. She managed to molt just fine after a year of doing that last time so maybe she's just that way.

Storm76 said:

Good luck furthermore with the communal, Hobo! Sorry to hear about the Pampho, though. I had my share of bad molts recently and it's not easy to watch them struggle - luckily I didn't have to intervene since I only discovered their bad molts after they molted. But both have kinda bent legs, the Avic has trouble with leg-pair I + III and the H. villosella seems to have all feet bent upwards somehow. Just hoping it'll all go well and they'll adjust and correct the problems in the next molt.

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Good luck with those. I'm starting to think those bent legs on adults might be better off cast off, since two of my adults (the metallica and GBB) lost their bent legs eventually anyway. Ah well. I guess I'll see more of it eventually.

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Anyway, it's been a while since I last posted, and I've gotten a few new additions!

First, a couple of E. pulchermaklaasi "blue form". Here's the female. I got an immature male too as a freebie.


Second, I got a MM RCF G. rosea, to try my hand at my old girl.


So far, so good, though he's yet to get any insertions.




I also got a huge N. tripepii, but I haven't got a pic of her yet for some reason. I'll get to it next post.

I've been pairing the N. chromatus these past two weeks, and despite both being very eager to mate, the female has been very adamant at grabbing him right after his insertions.




Shortly after this, the female took off one of his legs, and bit a hole in his butt.
He's got some serious battle damage, and was pretty lethargic for a couple of days, but he seems to be ready for more as he's made another sperm web this evening. I'll get a pic of him for next time too.

I'll be pairing the M. robustum again soon as well as she has finally molted again.


The male still appears to be doing well at a year past maturity, so I hope he's still up to the task and doesn't get eaten.

And finally, just a few shots of the others:

Lovely irminia and Euathlus "sp. blue" (pulcherimaklaasi" !

As for the cast off - that won't be possible, since it's all legs on the H. villosella. I'm not entirely sure yet, but it would seem she has trouble grabbing prey even and doesn't eat hence. She tries to, but loses itnerest after a few tries and just runs off. Even holding the prey item for her doesn't work, gonna try pre-killed and hopefully that'll do the trick. She's my problem T currently...

I'm getting better at remembering about my thread!

Here's the N. tripepii I got a while back. Very big girl.


The N. chromatus has made a full (though minus one leg) recovery


And is as feisty as ever


His butt wound (to the left of the spinnerets) looking pretty good, considering it was leaking yellow goo at the time of injury.


Had a couple of molts too,

P. cancerides, who needs a rehouse.


And the male B. smithi, who is now larger than the female.


But, the female B. smithi is currently dying in a deathcurl!!


Another shot of the RCF pair. He still hasn't made any insertions.


And finally, my freak P. metallica having a drink and showing off her funky dorsal pattern.