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Hey all and specially Steven
at the show i attended at the weekend, í had the opportunity to take a look at a new introduced Ancylometes spec.
I´m doing "with spiders" for 8 years now, since 5 years i do hunting spiders exclusively. Over the years i came acrosss some really huge specimen, even bigger than most people have seen them, Phoneutria fera, the former P. keyserlingi and back in the late 90´s i got hold of another Ancylometes spec WC, that was much bigger than the A. bogotensis.
So when i read that there was a "new" species available i thought about the spider i had back then. I hadn´t really been prepared to what was displayed there, i haven´t ever seen such a huge "true" spider! The dealer had a sub-adult male for display purposes with him, that freak had a body-size of 2 inches (5cm) and a legspan of 6 inches (15cm) and still a molt to go....
Slings of this species were for sell and i got some. The buggers are still tiny, but given their genus, growth should be lightning-quick. I really hope some will make it.
Anyway, look for yourself, the setup:
at the show i attended at the weekend, í had the opportunity to take a look at a new introduced Ancylometes spec.
I´m doing "with spiders" for 8 years now, since 5 years i do hunting spiders exclusively. Over the years i came acrosss some really huge specimen, even bigger than most people have seen them, Phoneutria fera, the former P. keyserlingi and back in the late 90´s i got hold of another Ancylometes spec WC, that was much bigger than the A. bogotensis.
So when i read that there was a "new" species available i thought about the spider i had back then. I hadn´t really been prepared to what was displayed there, i haven´t ever seen such a huge "true" spider! The dealer had a sub-adult male for display purposes with him, that freak had a body-size of 2 inches (5cm) and a legspan of 6 inches (15cm) and still a molt to go....
Slings of this species were for sell and i got some. The buggers are still tiny, but given their genus, growth should be lightning-quick. I really hope some will make it.
Anyway, look for yourself, the setup: