Hey, this was back in 2009 when both geniculata and brocklehursti produced a sac for me. It wouldn't be one of my babies if you got it last September at 1.5" inch.Yeah, I got a 1.5 inch genic last September that was listed as from one of your hatches.If the time frame doesn't match any you hatched, maybe the description had not been updated or something.
On the A. geniculata I know that Kelly Swift has them for sale with my baby brocklehursti I don't know if he has any left.Yeah, the timeline does not add up. Though I did wonder if perhaps I had gotten one from a later sac. It isn't important, I just though it would be cute if I had inadvertently ran across a picture of "mom" or "dad".
The genic is of course my favourite of the group, but they are all great tarantulas. The substrate is not as wet as it looks, this was minutes after rehousing and the coir was freshly reconstituted and squeezed out, but it still has that dark, wet look. I sprinkled some dry for it in case it preferred it
I know the size is off a bit from the year that they were born, but I can tell you why. Before Kelly's shop burned he had a lot of spiders too feed therefore tons of his spiders weren't growing as fast, as it would if you were growing only one spider. I can't believe you got one of my babies. Please don't ever let that one go. Let me know if it turns out to be male or female. The geniculata that you have are the same kind that were first brought in the late 90's.I got the genic from Kelly. The description had you down as the hatcher. As I said, I received it back in September. I'd wanted one for years, and a friend had it sent to me, along with 5 other different spiders as a birthday gift.
Here it is, maybe you will recognize it.
I believe it was in December 2009 when they were eggs with leg. In January 2010 when they were finally ready. I still consider them of being born in 2009. I wonder how many Kelly has left of those geniculata.Cool! Mine has a lineage!
Rest assured I have no intention of letting it go anywhere. Naturally, I am hoping for female - of the five unsexed species I have it is the one I want to be female the most - but I have yet to get a salvageable moult. I did post a ventral shot, but as far as I know, nobody weighed in on it and that isn't as reliable anyway, by my understanding. It is approaching the size where the moults should be a bit better for examination. I'll provide the ventral shot in case you care to see it, but I don't know if the quality is high enough to make anything from it.Ventral shots are quite often lacking, and mine may be a bit too shadowed.. I will remember to let you know which it is as soon as I finally find out for myself. So, what year was it hatched, then? I'm still a little unclear on that.
I'm glad you mentioned it, I was pleased that my old female had 1200 + babies, I actually counted every single one of them.
I have never seen or heard of this on immature males so for me it would be interesting to see.
That's pretty cool, never had that experience like you have. At least he is letting you know he is a male not unless she wants a sex change. Definitely a strange behavior.
That was my first thought, once I enlarged the photo on my IPhone I can see that this male still has his regular footing sort of speak. It is bizarre since I have never encounter this behavior and heard of.That's freaking weird man. His palps almost look swollen to me, but not mature. I know some species will get swollen palps a molt before maturing, but this is all around bizarre to me. I look forward to the video. And I don't want to be a pain in the butt, but Id like a few more clear pics of the palps, when you get the chance too lol
Later, Tom
Hey, after viewing your specimen a bit more from your photo your male maybe "Version II" of the geniculata that I posted recently on a different thread, you may want to check it out. But I will still would like to see a better photo of your immature male just to be sure.
Hey, Can you pick out your Acanthoscurria geniculata from this photo?I got the genic from Kelly. The description had you down as the hatcher. As I said, I received it back in September. I'd wanted one for years, and a friend had it sent to me, along with 5 other different spiders as a birthday gift.
Here it is, maybe you will recognize it.
OMG! I see it right there! The pale one with the round abdomen! Woo-Hoo, a baby picture!Jose said:
Yes, I thought that was the one you own now. It wasn't hard to find at all.