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    Bioactive terrariums and substrate use

    I sold this setup many years ago for something like 600 dollars. Can't remember exactly how much, but all the females were bred and the new owner was surprised with a ton of babies.
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    Bioactive terrariums and substrate use

    Alex, is that you????? I have an old thread on here on a communal liphistius setup I made. I had a teaming population of isopods in there and the spiders bred and successfully had babies, molted etc. It just depends on the species of isopods you use. I used white dwarfs. I am sure you could use...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Ahhhh, Radan finally got his paper published! I am very happy to see this! The spider pictured in the article as Bistriopelma lamasi are the same as the second batch of photos I posted, the more brownish and gold spiders. the jet black ones are of a different species within the same genus. It...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    My friend recently got a new job that has been keeping him very busy, so he hasn't had time to advance the project lately. We still need to finish the spider room before he can apply for permits.
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    The reason we made a slant from front to back is for visual appeal and more so, for the spiders. If the soil level was just flat, we would not be able to put very much dirt in the terrariums and the spiders would not be able to dig. You see, these terrariums are front opening and the soil dam is...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    For those of you followin this thread, my friend and I have started building the breeding room for the sp. red wing and Hapalotremus. Here are a few photos. This project is my friends baby. I am just helping him get it built and getting spiders to breed. Time frame for permits and exportation...
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    Liphistiidae/Liphisitiid- day!Liphistius ornatus breeding success

    You are very welcome!! I am glad I was able to help out! And even more glad to hear of your success!! I wish people would have worked with malayanus more when they were in the hobby... Oh well. JOsh
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    Liphistiidae/Liphisitiid- day!Liphistius ornatus breeding success

    I am very very happy to hear you had success with these! Very cool story! Post pictures of the setup with the baby traps!! JOsh
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Yeah, I had read a similar article some time ago. It is very interesting! would be neat to have a large female and a frog or 2 in a display setup! I'll never do it though!
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Frywulf, if you are referring to the Bothrops in my flickr account, it is Bothrops pictus. Jergon de la costa as they are called by the locals. If you run the mouse over each picture, the names should pop up. ---------- Post added 06-20-2015 at 09:31 AM ---------- You are very welcome :)
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    The Hapalotremus are fairly large. 5 inch legspan on average. The new genus with 2 red spots are smaller. I would say 2.5 to 3 inch legspan is pretty typical for them.
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    It is certainly a possibility :)
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Well, our project most likely won't be dealing with dart frogs any time soon. The process to get permits for invertebrates takes long enough. For dart frogs, it takes years and is very expensive and a pain staking process. But who knows.... Baby steps. First we have to get permits for the inverts.
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Actually, there are no germans knocking at my door. I make sure to keep localities pretty secret.... And, I have already talked with a few Germans who have smuggled some of the Hapaotremus out in the past and they did HORRIBLE with them. I find that strange because they are SUPER hardy in...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    The project is a captive breeding one here in Peru. So all material going into the US hobby would already be from CB hobby material. so even less impact on wild populations :)
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    State with the most species of Aphonopelma?

    HAHAHA Tom!!! As for the state with the most diversity in species, it would definitely be Arizona. There are many species that come into arizona from Mexico via the sky islands. You don't really get that anywhere else on a level that Arizona has. On another note, the dwarf turret builder...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    The biologist describing these has submitted his paper for review, so it shouldn't take too much longer to find out what they are. I will make a post as soon as I find out. As far as getting things like this into the hobby, it is absolutely possible to legally export them without a...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Here are some pictures of individuals from the type locality for the genus. These are the species the genus is being described with. The black ones I posted above are quite possibly a 3rd species in the genus. I am still waiting to hear on that. Enjoy the pictures. Oh, sorry for the blurry...
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    Something very different and unique from Peru

    Just a heads up to anyone who was following this post. The tarantula we are calling sp. red wings or red bull or whatever we want to call it is a new genus. I am in contact with the biologist describing it and as soon as I get the ok to let the name out, I will let all of you know. Something...
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    Tityus metuendus

    Just thought I would share a couple photos that my friend ernesto maldonado took while I guided him through the southern amazon looking for critters. These are Tityus metuendus, a very large species that does not show extreme sexual dimorphism like asthenes. The specimen on the tree is a large...
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