She looks like an Eucratoscelus pachypus, right, @KezyGLA ?
One of the more friendly baboons, and more inclined to run instead of bite. But still with potent venom, so be on guard.
Requires dry deep substrate for burrowing, at least three times her legspan deep. She'll burrow straight down but if you don't overfeed her she'll be visible every night at the entrance of her burrow with those sexy rear fuzzy legs
Dry with a waterdish is fine for them. But they need to burrow, she'll be restlessly roaming around if she can't burrow.
@Arachnomaniac19 maybe hard to tell from a picture, but it looks more E.pachypus to me because of the dark colour of the abdomen and the rear legs, and these are also more fuzzy and thick than the other legs.
She also has a little 'mask' around the eyes which is a trait of E.pachypus.
E.constrictus isn't much in the hobby too, which make it more likely being E.pachypus.
I believe that's an E.Pachypus. They're awesome and build burrows that go straight down to a galleria. Some arachnologists believe that's why the species developed their stout legs. To quickly spring out of these burrows.
Also, I know from first hand experience, their bite effing sucks.
@Grimmdreadly Thats an interesting point about the reason for the legs. I read somewhere that they used them to block up the entrance to their burrows like Chinese hourglass spiders
@KezyGLA I've had quite a few of them, and the only time I've seen them upside down in their burrows only when they were retreating. I have seen them spread those back legs to the sides of their burrow to post themselves up about halfway down.
I'm no arachnologist, though, so there's a good chance I'm wrong.
Interesting points...however, I don't think one excludes the other. The plugging thing @KezyGLA mentions seems to be a way of sensing prey, maybe because of the fuzz on the backlegs.
But in the short time I've got mine, I've also seen her do the jack-in-a-box thing @Grimmdreadly mentions, shooting out of her burrow to catch prey.
It was hard to imagine her as a badass OW until last night...she got mad as hell when I dumped a mealie on her doorstep...woops, my bad
@Andrea82 I learned that early on. Dropping anything down an E.Pachy burrow is met with a threat posture. They prefer the mealworm delivery person to knock on the door. Drop the mealworm and walk away. Haha
@Grimmdreadly lol, I didn't mean for the mealie to go in, I put it at the entrance actually. But she became all hissy fit, and pulled it in involuntarily...so she became even more hissy.
Nah, I learned early on that it is not smart to drop things down her burrow. I did that once and was greeted by her spazzing all over the place...
Good thing I had the lid ready, or else it would have become a 'help my T escaped' thread for sure!
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