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Gee, I just take over all your pic threads, don't I? The same mom, with the same eggsac:

That pic was taken late July 2003, a couple of days after the little guys emerged from the eggsac. Only a handful made it (maybe 8 or 9 out of about 35 eggs). Hope you don't mind me butting in on yer thread AphonopelmaTX......Not that I know you or anything................................ ;)

MY, but those pics look familiar.... ;) ;) ;)

Corn snake breeding gets tricky. Basically all pet-trade corn snakes are het for something, so in any breeding of an unrelated pair, you'd be likely to get a virtual rainbow of colors...Impossible to trace what trait came from which parent in many cases.

Wait for a molt. External sexing is iffy at best.

Out of all the times I've bred Avicularia spp., I've noticed that as they get closer to producing the sac, they'll spin a dense tube web, much like the webs they construct prior to a molt. If you see her doing any extra spinning, keep an eye out for that sac. As for your second question...

That's the best ID I've heard so far ;) lol

Yeah, I was waiting for this to get ugly. Your comments leave a little something to be desired as far as your tact and civility are concerned, don't you think? Simple fact: I based my judgement on taxonomical data. You based your judgement on sight. And as far as I know, so did West...

By the way, thanks Steve for mentioning the foveal groove info. I hesitated to use that as my reasoning, but I guess my imprudence got the best of me ;) I'll choose my words more carefully next time.

Actually, Rick West is not an arachnologist. True, he does quite a bit more field work than I, myself, am able to, and his status in the scientific field gains him better access to certain literature that the "general public" is not always made privy to. But his "best guess" was just that -- a...

Yeah, I guess he did miss it--especially considering the quality of the original picture (not a stab at your photography skills, Botar, just an observation on the difficulty of capturing the true image of spiders with a lens). Some people are a little too enthusiastic about identifying spiders...

Honestly I can't see how some of you are coming to the conclusion that this is the "true" H minax. Take a look at the minax photos on sites like spiderpix or even birdspiders.com, and compare them with the specimen in the above photo. The foveal groove gives it away. The "true" Haplopelma...

Yeah, as metallica said, that would be Lycosa tarantula -- which is obviously not a Theraphosid. In case you're curious, the first "REAL" tarantula is debatable. Several species of Avicularia were unofficially 'described' in the late 18th century, and can be found as subjects of period...

Theoretically, yes. But you would almost certainly need a higher-powered microscope than the one pictured above. At the risk of sounding rude, I must say that I've found those "microscopes" to be total pieces of crap :P As I said : Invest in a better one, or develop a trained eye ;)

First of all, ditch the 90 gallon. 90 gallons is way too big for even the largest tarantula species. A B. smithi (Mexican Redknee) would do much better in something smaller than a 5 gallon. If you want to put something in that 90 gallon aquarium, get yourself a pair of adult ball pythons or...

hmm, how exactly is one supposed to determine sex on "slings" this way? I have one of those little pocket microscopes and have never once been able to use it to (accurately) sex a molt. Invest a little more in an ACTUAL microscope, or just develop a trained eye :P Also, sexing "spiderlings"...

My Poecs (both male and female; young and old) very often display something like the behavior you described. In fact, I just saw one of my larger regalis females doing this "tapping" earlier today. Nothing to worry about, based on what you described. Just chalk it up to weird Pokie behavior...

Nice, congrats :) Got a head-count yet?

I have a Rosie male that will probably never die. rosea males are sort of notorious for ditching the odds, and escaping death for extended periods of time. I agree that he's probably unable to breed after the molt. I'd just try to keep him comfortable and hope he sticks around for awhile...

Wow, thanks for making me add all this up :rolleyes: lol I've acquired the majority of my collection via wholesale/bulk discounts and such. But even then, a rough estimate for my CURRENT collection alone would easily top $8,000. That's not including feeders, cages, housing matierials...