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I've had some specimens for about a year and a half and only 2 ever molt. Some are pretty much babies and never molted! There is a possibility that they might need to "hibernate" in order to molt, like M. giganteus babies. Michael (Banshee) told me he had trouble with his and mentioned that...

not that I can vouch for any accuracy, the art work is relatively poor, but Yemen issued a postal stamp with Latrodectus hystrix in 2004, you can visit my site to see it: http://arachnidstamps.blogspot.ca/search/label/Spider%20sp.%3A%20Latrodectus%20hystrix Not much I know! Martin

Michael, well, I get so many species from you! So at least I could help with one! Nice pictures as usual.

sorry for the late reply, so here are some pictures of my set up the garbage cans I was talking about, to give an example, once there is substrate at the bottom, I put an 18" tall piece of cork inside. Gives you and idea of the height. these are my other containers for other species...

congratulations this is great

Tom, I will try to think to take pictures tomorrow when I am at my shop. Nick, I think the best is to first breed them yourself and then you can try all you want with communal set ups. What Michael explained to me is that when you keep them in groups, in time you always "magically" end up with...

I never understand the fascination with communal terrariums and why take the risk with them. I keep all my amblypygi separate and only introduce couples together for mating. I usually leave male and female one week together after checking for spermatophore the following day of introduction...

ok, final update here, the babies from the big P. aztecus female hatched, there were 30 in total, compared to 4 for the small one!

some really nice animals you got there Tom!

yes, the tiny one. Hopefully I can answer your question in several months as I never bred this species (I got this little female and she was already mated). I mated two big females. I doubt there will be any difference in size, just more babies. This clutch had 4 babies!

just a quick update, the eggs from the tiny female hatched and I have 4 nice healthy looking babies!

I wish I could help, but I have not bred them yet. I have a group of 10 specimens that I got late last year. There are 4 females that I can see the eggs through them, but they are not laying them. I suspect that like other animals from more arid regions, they will be harder to breed and probably...

and Paraphrynus carolynae, sold under P. mexicanus

well, keep in mind that I only started working seriously with amblypygi almost 2 years ago, so I do not have that much experience. for that example, I do not know yet as the eggs have not hatched yet. I had Paraphrynus cubensis produce, a tiny female gave me 12 babies, all were very healthy and...

I would not really agree with that statement, how many different species have you worked with? Damon and other Phrynichidae, yes, very easy, but a lot of Phrynidae are not that easy, with very little sexual dimorphism. D. diadema females can produce eggs being smaller than 1" in body length...

yes, I have Charinus acosta here that reproduces that way. C. ionnaticus as well. Michael published an article on Sarax buxtoni reproducing that way as well. I am sure there are others.

really nice! Is there another specimen in there, I see a whip moving around on the left side?

thank you Chris... spring is slowly coming... hopefully I can go back in the field in a month or so!

Spiders will normally have a time period where they will be hectic when disturbed, but will settle down with a little time. Then you can do almost whatever you want with them. I totally agree... always makes me laugh when someone "brags" about not editing his pictures. Goes to show how...