REX IS A FEMALE AGAIN!!! DROP EVERYTHING!!!

[Moakmeister]

BOOYAH
This morning my first tarantula was out of "his" burrow so I trapped him under a cup and eviscerated his burrow digging out his exuvium. I looked at it and there's a spermathecae with little alien ear nubs!!! YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!

Now I can call him Regina again! But I can't take a picture since my iPhone camera can't focus on anything closer than 6 inches.

 

[miss moxie]

Congratulations. Now if next molt she's male again you might have a very complicated T.

 

[Moakmeister]

Congratulations. Now if next molt she's male again you might have a very complicated T.

Hehehe don't talk like that in this house

 

[Leila]

Wait one darn minute, man.

What?

 

[Moakmeister]

Wait one darn minute, man.

What?

The other exuvium was too small, basically. And i didnt have a good camera to help me. So now that it's big enough I can finally see it.

 

[Leila]

Yay for Regina and her female parts!

 

[Chris LXXIX]

Are you freaking assuming the gender of your Theraphosidae? Shame on you! You are "part of the problem"

 

[KezyGLA]

Congrats!

But I can't take a picture since my iPhone camera can't focus on anything closer than 6 inches.

Use the zoom function bro

 

[viper69]

I bet it's a male.

 

[Leila]

<---an actual photo of @viper69 in this thread

 

[Moakmeister]

I bet it's a male.

No.

 

[Walker253]

Rex can be whatever gender he/she chooses. I don't judge.

 

[TRection]

How does this happen in the first place? Do they change genders sometimes the way some fish and frogs do when they think there is a need for more males or females in the population?

 

[Trenor]

How does this happen in the first place? Do they change genders sometimes the way some fish and frogs do when they think there is a need for more males or females in the population?

No they don't change their sex. When they are small the sex parts are clear so it's hard to tell the sex. As they get older the sex parts get larger and darken and it's easier to tell the sex.

 

[Walker253]

My previous comment was a joke and should not be considered as a scientific possibility.

 

[Mila]

They are clearly none binary and gender fluid you transphobe

 

[boina]

See - you should have trusted the vent sexing

 

[Trenor]

See - you should have trusted the vent sexing

True cause it's right 50% of the time.

 

[Andrea82]

This thread is awesome. Welcome back Moak, where have you been lately?

 

[metallica]

what species is this? in some genera the male genopores can be mistaken for a spermathecae.