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Sorry for the late response, just saw your post. For shooting macro I have 2 lenses that both work beautifully. First is the AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED and the second is the Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG APO HSM Macro. Hope it helps!

Chris, As far as positive ID goes, from reading the papers that are out there and various collection rumors/reports that have been floated around I am pretty certain of their ID. I am working on getting some first hand collection/locale information to help as well. As far as the 2 species...

These 2 are of a female Liphistius murphyorum that I was re-housing into a larger enclosure.

These are of a Liphistius malayanus the enclosure she was in was a bit on the muddy side as you can see. Cheers Iggy

I will be able to make it for a change. See you there, Iggy

Here are a few shots of one of my males I was transferring him from one female enclosure to another and decided to take some pics while he was out. I meant to put a coin in the photo as a size reference but I forgot. His leg span is roughly 3-3.5in as pictured. The last one is a close up of...

I have begun to dig up and move a few of my larger L. malayanus into bigger enclosures for future breeding attempts. I took some pictures since they were dug up and visible for a change. Cheers Iggy

Sounds great, count me in! What are the charges for campsites and are reservations needed? Cheers Iggy

Here are a few shots of some trap doors and lines. I am trying to get used to a new camera before I disturb the spiders themselves for their turns. Sorry about the bad focus on the last one it is right against the cage and the reflection is bad. I like the angle of the shot though. Cheers Iggy

I am not positive what it means. I have a couple ideas since two of my L. murphyourm have done the same thing only still showing some rust banding on their legs. I also had one that looked just like the pics on Randy May's site of murphyorum that molted, came close to doubling in size, and...

What specific spiders are you looking for information on? There are links to some of the published information on Migidae (tree trap doors) from Madagascar. Try searching on Google Scholar for the particular genus you are looking for. Cheers Iggy

Chris, If you want to see some really nice pics of L. murphyorum check out Randy May's site savagedigital.com in his gallery section. To try to answer your other question as far as where exactly they are collected from it is hard to be totally sure, but they are found in a small area of...

Bobby, First off I would like to say that like you, buying WC is not something that I take lightly, but after I got my first Liphistius and doing some very superficial reading on them I was hooked. So much so that I decided to sell off my collection of T's to focus my energy solely on...

The only source that I have found for his paper unfortunately is the publisher is Germany. As far as the dirt flinging that you are seeing, all of mine do that as well(both L. malayanus and L. murphyorum). They seem to be well and good in their burrows and after a month to 6 weeks...

Has the L. malayanus been doing any digging at all? How wet is your substrate? I have seen them get covered in substrate if it is wet, it almost looks like breading on fried food. If you don't see anything wrong and it is not showing any symptoms, my guess would be that the substrate is on...

As far as burrow starting goes, I have found with mine that if you offer a "starter" hole (stick your finger an inch or so back not down into the soil on the slope) they should have a burrow within a week, complete with trip lines. Left to their own devices I had one L. malayanus take 2 months...

Found a great source of information on Liphistiidae Joachim Haupt wrote a monograph that was titled: The Mesothelae- a monograph of an exceptional group of spiders (Araneae: Mesothelae) (Morphology, behavior, ecology, taxonomy, distribution and phylogeny) This was published by E...

They also use them to hold their trap doors shut to keep out intruders. I read an abstract of a paper online, (though at the moment I forget where, I think that it was in an issue of Zoologica Scripta) that had studied this and found that they can hold off forces up to 36x their body weight...

I will be there and no dental work before hand this time.

That is great news! Let me know how the breeding goes, none of mine are mature yet.