hopefully not a hybrid.

[codykrr]

ok so i have a male and female B. albopilosum. Well the female looks like all the other B. albo's i have seen, but the male does not.

the male has a rather dark carapace and i havent seen any pictures of male curly hairs so i guess it could be normal.

what do you all think? and do you have any pics for comparison?

i ask because id like to breed these sooner or later and do not want to breed any alboXvagans.

here is the male

 

[Exo]

That's gotta be a hybrid........sorry.

BTW, Where did you get it?

 

[jebbewocky]

Looks like a B.vagans x B.alpopilosum to me, for what that's worth, which is close to nil, lol.

And even if he is a hybrid, I think he's a keeper.

 

[codykrr]

I got him from kelly swift last year i think..maybe 2 years ago. i dont think kelly made a hybrid intentionally but maybe it was hybrid before he got his specimen.

(assuming this is in fact an AlboXvagans)

anyone have a picture of a true B. albo male?

 

[codykrr]

here is a picture of the female i have.(this was a fresh molt pic, but she looks the same still)

also fom kelly swift. around the ame time.

 

[VESPidA]

how big is it? i got a b. albo from kelly swift about a year ago too, and it's just about 3 inches now and really should be molting soon. i can post a pic when he/she does just for comparison; it's a long-shot but depending on how big yours is, maybe they could be sacmates?

 

[codykrr]

yeah they probably are. i got to looking and these are from last years batch he had.

mine is around 3.5 inches right now. so i wouldnt doubt these are indeed sac mates.

Is yours a male or female?

 

[VESPidA]

not sure; i'm not great at ventral sexing and was just going to wait on the next molt and examine the exuvia. let me see if i can pinch grab it and get a pic for you to eval.

 

[codykrr]

alright. then can you get a carapce shot as well?

 

[VESPidA]

oh geez... i'm sorry but i had vagans so much on my mind that that was the T i was thinking of when i read this thread. i just realized that after taking some pics.

i did get a b. albo in that same order from kelly, but he/she was a bit smaller than the vagans (prob about 0.5 inches), and incidentally just molted 3 days ago (was around 2.5 inches prior). as soon as he/she hardens up, i will get some pics and post them.

sorry for the confusion! but i'm definitely curious as well

 

[AllieCat]

My female albopilosum is a lot darker than yours and has white-ish 'long hairs'...yours definetly seem reddish... the carapace on mine is black as well, not reddish....:?

 

[VESPidA]

ok well curiosity got the better of me, and i decided to get him/her out for a quick photoshoot and a rehouse at the same time. i'm pretty conservative with feeding even my slings and i don't keep them any warmer than my other Ts (so around ~70 pretty consistently), so mine is probably a few molts behind yours. are these good enough to sex?

ETA: 3 days post-molt, approx 2.5 inches (was 2-2.25 prior to molt, i overestimated a bit above), flash used on all pics.
purchased from kelly swift 5/31/09 at 0.25-0.5 inches.

 

[jeff1962]

here is a picture of the female i have.(this was a fresh molt pic, but she looks the same still)

also fom kelly swift. around the ame time.

I have had 3 of these. Two I still have, the largest is a confirmed female and her carapace looks nothing like that. I have another I raised from a sling and its Carapace looks like neither the male in question or this female you are showing.Both are from Southern spider works. The third one I had was a male that matured and I sent to someone for breeding, the carapace on it also looked like neither of these and it was from a different source . The specimans I do have, and have had, look like all the other pictures I have seen that are supposed to be reprasenative of the breed. My female , who is well over 4 inches just molted last week and her carapace looked nothing like that even after a fresh molt. Frankly I have to wonder what exactly you both have, since they both came from the same source.

 

[JC]

codykrr, neither your male or female look like B.albopilosum to me. They have too much red in all the wrong places.

Here is a picture of my 4.8-inch female:

 

[GoTerps]

That's gotta be a hybrid........sorry.

Why?

I have no interest in guessing the background of that spider, but what makes it a hybrid from that picture?

The coloration of the carapace? I don't buy that at all. A darker carapace=hybrid with B. vagans? Then This one must have stumbled upon a B. vagans in Costa Rica!!

Eric

 

[sharpfang]

Wow! Hokie

I hope if I get Off-Spring, that Mine look like Yours!
I hear they Vary - Tremendously - Jason

 

[jeff1962]

Maybe this will help. http://www.brachypelmas.co.uk/just brachypelma/carapace.htm

 

[JC]

I hope if I get Off-Spring, that Mine look like Yours!
I hear they Vary - Tremendously - Jason

Jason, is that MM... a B.vagans?

 

[JC]

Maybe this will help. http://www.brachypelmas.co.uk/just brachypelma/carapace.htm

They don't have B.vagans?

 

[VESPidA]

haha thanks! i'm kinda sad about the pics... the spider is much more impressive to me than i am able to capture. they always look so beautiful and shiny fresh after a molt.

your breeding pair is just gorgeous... i never realized how red the males of this species could get. <--- oh i just assumed that was a mature albo, not a vagans :/

can anyone help with the sex of mine?