My LP molted and I actually managed to get some pictures of the process for once!
It looks kind of like it is using its exuvium as a puppet
It's old exuvium was about 5 inches and this thing looks like it could easily be 6 or 6.5 now. I have raised this one from 1/2 inch so...
Thanks y'all! It really would be awful to come home from that and then kill my whole collection. Since they are in my bedroom will it be safe for me to sleep in the same room or should I relocate for a little while?
I don't know if this is the right forum to post this is in, but it is pertinent to the wellbeing of my tarantulas so I will try here. Forgive me if I am wrong. I am going to Nicaragua in a few weeks and I am basically going to have to bathe in bug repellant and pesticides the whole time I am...
My P. muticus is on it's back as I am typing this, it was nice enough to burrow right beside where I can see it, but not a good angle to take any pictures. I am excited because from what I have heard these guys really don't molt very often. My A. brocklehursti has been premolt and I caught it...
The P. antinous decided to molt for me :D now it actually is starting to look like a P. antinous instead of a brown bundle of legs. My P. striata also molted a few weeks ago but the dang thing is so reclusive that I haven't been able to sneak a picture of it yet.
Tarantulas get first place for me but I think besides them I would have to say my favorite type of bug is the mantids. No specific species or anything but I have always found them to be fascinating.
I guess tarantulas and snakes just weren't enough for me :D My friend is going off to college and needed somebody to take his leopard gecko off his hands and who am I to turn down an offer like that? I have been told on another forum that it is a Super Hypo Tangerine. I already took out all the...
Nothing new, just a pic I got of the pulchripes while she was stretching out. I desperately wish that I had a macro lens :(
And here is my LP. Recently looked at an old molt and realized that it is a she :D man does she have a LOT of growing left
And another look at the P. muticus...
I live in the suburbs but and I know a lot of people from rural who entirely reject tarantulas and snakes and always tell me about how they would shoot them. Interestingly I have only really met girls who are interested in them. I knew one guy who thought they were so cool and wanted one....at...
Let me just say beforehand that I had a camera trained on the snake taking continuous pictures while I handled it. It is still in its nippy stage, although it is beginning to calm down, and I figured I would try to get an action shot of it. I was not provoking or harming it in any way, I just...
I've never found Nhandu tripepii to look very good. Even then they can get to pretty impressive sizes. Let's just say that is the closest thing there is to a T that I am not interested in ;)
My first was a WC adult G. rosea from the LPS. That was in 2008. It died after two months for unknown reasons. Then I got a 1 inch G. pulchripes that is close to 6 inches now and still goin strong. 10 T's total
IME Acanthoscurrias are more likely to throw up a threat pose than my LP. My LP will kick hairs with both of its hind legs if it is annoyed but I have only seen a threat pose from it once while it was in premolt. I used to have a 3 inch A. brocklehursti that absolutely would not tolerate being...
The most vicious tarantula I have owned is my 3.5 inch Brachypelma albopilosum {D I used to have an O. aureotibialis (somehow it squished itself while molting in the bottom of its burrow :() and an OBT that was also lost to a bad molt. They were both moody obviously and the OBT tended to run...
Grammostola pulchripes molt
First time she has molted in 2 years. I saw her flip on to her back and I saw the finished product but I missed the actual molt.
I have been keeping T's for 5 years, handle my NW species occasionally, and have not been bitten. My young Morelia spilota mcdowelli is a different story though....:D
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