Re-did the King's enclosure!

[Austin S.]

Before:
Before:

After:

It was about time she got an upgrade, good thing the mites were spoted as well. hopefully it will not screw with her mating cycle and I can get some good eggs from her!
Here are a couple more pics, including her!

I made a pre burrow for her, hopefully she'll keep going further down and stay where I can see her!

 

[Austin S.]

Here is beauty *and* the beast!

Everyone keep those fingers crossed!! Looking good so far!

 

[Austin S.]

She took right to it!

Now lets just hope all that dirt wasnt a waste of money!!

 

[PhilK]

Half those photos aren't showing up for me. I gotta say that first photo is an icky enclosure! Lucky she got moved.

Very cool looking spider.

 

[Sabatta]

Nice layered effect. Looks like she's dug down to the cretaceous period!

 

[Anastasia]

Wow, Austin she is a pretty lady
hope she will lay u nice big sac full of healthy ones

 

[IdahoBiteyThing]

wow

Nice pics. Try covering the side of the tank with the preformed burrow with dark paper/cardboard. I've been doing this with some of my burrowers and I'm getting really nice burrows up against the glass so I can see what's going on down there. Good luck on getting a sac!

 

[verry_sweet]

Very nice!!


You’re soooo going to need an excavator to get the sack from her ;P

 

[Austin S.]

Very nice!!


You’re soooo going to need an excavator to get the sack from her ;P

Hehe I know I know. But I have been thinking. I've always wanted to be one of those people that see the babies running in and out of the burrow. Either way, I'm going to have to get them out one way or the other...

 

[seanbond]

what a beast Austin!

 

[_bob_]

thats kind of over kill man....

 

[froggyman]

but its good overkill.....looks very impressive

 

[Truff135]

Doesn't look overkill to me at all...she's a huge spider and deserves plenty of room to burrow. I think it looks great!

 

[Austin S.]

Overkill? Not at all man. She is a burrowing machine and I wanted to expand on the idea of it. Nothing wrong with doing this in my opinion. The tank needed a tune up, everything was literally free. This species is known to burrow a couple feet in Kenya, why not see if it'll happen? Overkill? Nah, but if you think so, keep it to yourself please.

 

[Austin S.]

Update

Just a little update on her progress. I taped the hand towel over to keep the light out.

 

[seanbond]

good job! you got to get a male and breed that comfy lady!

 

[Austin S.]

good job! you got to get a male and breed that comfy lady!

I guess you missed the post!

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=109724&highlight=Successful+C.+crawshayi+breeding

Now it is a waiting game!

 

[seanbond]

000oooppss! great work!