If using silk leaves, it is always best to give them a thorough rinse out in warm / hot water. If you notice any coloration bleeding from the silk leaves, do not use them within your tarantulas enclosure, as the dyes can be harmful to the tarantula.
I have had some that you could rinse in...
99.9% of fungus is also harmless so wouldn't worry about that either.
Check out the tarantulas information for beginners section, it covers most areas or questions you might have including mold/fungus. Well worth a read...
Completely agree.
You can actually use this exact process to dictate whether a fossorial spider will use the starter burrow in the location you wish. I've heard a lot of people over the years say "Oh well its instinctive for them to burrow down to escape heat and rise to the surface to warm...
Yes that's the one! to think it molted in there as well o_O
There is another video on youtube I just found from 2018 where a jumper crawls out a woman's ear, never seen something so adorable but hard to watch at the same time 😂
It seems in both cases they were jumping spiders!
That's really creepy. I honestly can't imagine how you wouldn't immediately get bugged out (sorry for the bad pun) that a roach was in your ear!
I saw a story a month or two back about a woman that had a spider in her ear. Surrounded by countless spiders and I still can't imagine that happening 😅
T domestica is actually a really cool little spider! epic feeding responses, and as far as true spiders go, the females have a reasonable lifespan of 6-8 years in captivity.
3 new additions today!
Hogna carolinensis - Carolina Wolf Spider - CB 0.6cm - 0.0.1 - Multiple images as so small was kind of needed.
Cyriopagopus lividus - Cobalt Blue - CB 2.5cm - 0.0.1
Chilobrachys guangxiensis - Chinese fawn - CB 3cm - 0.0.1 - This spider was an impulse buy...
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I started my colony by buying 5 or so tubs from my local exotic pet shop and putting them together. It helped that a few of the tubs already had babies in. I didn't make any provisions to ensure a male to female ratio, I just dumped them all in a dark plastic storage container with holes...
My dubia colony probably has a better vegetation diet than myself :D
As the saying goes.... "you are what you eat", and this applies to spiders as well!
For this reason it is never a waste of time to make sure your feeders are as well kept as possible.
As long as they have the same care requirements and have plenty of room, multiple different species of millipede can be housed together and they will do just fine.
It was revised again and placed back to megatheloides. If I remember correctly, it happened during a recent survey in which they identified 35+ new Linothele sp.
I’ve been trying to get hold of a few Macrothele gigas for a few years now. When I manage to source some I will probably grab enough to attempt a breeding project. I have a really cool Thai Funnel Web that creates trap doors that is rather similar in appearance, just no way near as large. It’s...
As Don has mentioned above, B hamorii is not humidity dependent so you don’t want an enclosure that retains humidity. If anything, if it was me, I’d be drilling holes into the removable lid to reduce humidity, especially as it’s acrylic.
Just a water dish will suffice, just over fill slightly...
This is the second wet molt I’ve had with any of my spiders. The first was with a male Avic avic, was god knows how long ago, maybe 15 years or so. Really doesn’t seem all that common.
Linothele really are awesome. Diplurids are my favorite spiders, always been amazed by them. I’ve still got 2...
One of my Linothele megatheloides molted last night, shamefully a wet molt. Also lost a leg.
Had seemed in prime shape so kinda gutted really. It’s moving around even with every leg crooked, chances of survival probably still low, but who knows, could get lucky.
Also yet another confirmed male...
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