Super sorry for quality.
Was sold as smithi by a pet shop, go figure, I assume it's a hamorii. Thought it was a female for the longest time but a couple of moults later honestly certain they look male now. No hooks or anything yet though. Thoughts?
The very first item passed out by Rick was a copy of a paper entitled, "The Spinnerets and Epiandrous Glands of Spiders" by B. J. Marples, J. Linneaus Society (Zool.), vol. 46, 1967. This paper is about spider spinnerets, of all things, and made references to certain fusilla or spinnerets that are found only on male spiders, called epiandrous fusillae. According to the paper, nearly all male spiders, including all tarantulas, have this extra set of silk spinning glands and fusillae or spinnerets. If only we could find them on a spider, we could at last determine, conclusively and through Science, whether the spider was male or not male (i.e., female)."
"These minute spinnerets are situated in 2-4 rows and have semicircular or triangular form. Area of their placed is possible to find due to more shorter and darker specialized setae, disposed as a patch in the manner of “arch”.
@Arachnophoric no worries I’m keeping Tarantula’s for a couple of years and I just learnt this recently, first time I heard that these are spinnerets it was very awkward to me too...
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