The 'kids'

[Kraine]

I love your pics! Especially your pulchra. I'll check back for more of that one.

 

[advan]

Thank you! Every time I add to my collection and shorten my wish list, I see another species I have to add to it...

Yep, thats just how it goes.

 

[Formerphobe]

I love your pics! Especially your pulchra. I'll check back for more of that one.

Thanks. :smile: Now that his winter is over, he should be molting again before too long. I hope to catch him in the act this time.

 

[Formerphobe]

Freshly molted B. verdezi, juvenile female, ~2.5"

Molted upright. E. pulcherimaklaasi sling

 

[Formerphobe]

Water front dining...

Not sure why he felt compelled to hover over his water bowl to eat his cricket. :laugh: He grabbed the cricket in a different area of the enclosure and carried it to the bowl.

 

[Formerphobe]

G. rosea 0.1.0, ~5" DLS, "Orlith"

G. rosea 0.1.0, ~4" DLS "Alaranth" - Note the black divot next to the fovea. She was wild caught. That spot has been there since I acquired her in December 2010. She's doing well otherwise. I'm hoping for a molt...

G. pulchra 1.0.0, ~6" DLS "Faranth" Every time I take the lid off his enclosure he comes out and poses. Never tries to flee, never a threat pose, just strikes various poses then returns to his hide when I replace the lid.

B. boehmei 0.0.1, ~3", acquired in July 2011. 2007 reported as hatch year. Within last 24 hours had a small cystic type lesion appear at pedicel. :unhappy:

 

[Formerphobe]

"Belinda" Aphonopelma sp 'Murietta'

"Sorka" Brachypelma boehmei due for a molt

"Lessa" B. boehmei first threat display at 2", it didn't like me topping the water bowl.

Recently molted "Crayola"

Another one due for a molt - Unknown red rump sp

"Ruatha" eating over the water bowl again... this time balancing on the marbles instead of the edge. What a goof!

 

[Formerphobe]

B. boehmei, "Sorka" - finally molted!

OBT, "Ananse"

 

[JODECS]

nice Ts...

 

[Formerphobe]

Recent molts

LP ~6" 0.1.0

Unknown sp red rump

Monocentropus balfouri

Aphonopelma burica

G. pulchripes

Avicularia versicolor

---------- Post added 09-24-2011 at 11:09 PM ----------

A couple more
B. emilia

A. geniculata

---------- Post added 09-24-2011 at 11:22 PM ----------

These H. liv are becoming real social critters. I've seen more of them in the past week than I have since I got them 3 months ago. And growing like weeds!

 

[Formerphobe]

The 23 species I am owned by

Tried to take pics of all of them today in natural light. Some were not overly cooperative...
There was a recent major molting party, and it looks like another in the not too distant future.
Acanthoscurria geniculata 0.0.1 "Aranha" (1 of 1) ~2"

Aphonopelma burica 0.0.1 "Briar" (1 of 5) ~1/3"

Aphonopelma seemanni 0.0.1 "Zaranth" (1 of 1) ~1"

Aphonopelma sp 'Murietta' 0.1.0 "Belinda" (1 of 2) ~5"

Avicularia versicolor 0.0.1 "Chipara" (1 of 4) ~1"

Brachypelma boehmei 0.0.1 "Manora" (1 of 3) ~3.5"

Brachypelma emilia 0.0.1 "Igen" (1 of 5) ~2"

Brachypelma schroederi 0.0.1 "Caylith" (1 of 1) ~0.5"

Brachypelma smithi 1.0.0 "Ruatha" (1 of 1) ~2.5"

Brachypelma vagans 0.0.1 "Brekke" (1 of 2) ~2.5"

Brachypelma verdezi 0.1.0 "Aramina" (1 of 1) ~2.5"

Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 0.1.0 "Crayola" (1 of 2) ~3.5"

Euathlus pulcherimaklaasi 0.0.1 "Kira" (1 of 3) ~0.75"

Grammostola pulchra 1.0.0 "Faranth" (1 of 1) ~5.5"

Grammostola pulchripes 0.0.1 "Piemur" (1 of 1) ~2"

Grammostola rosea RCF 0.0.1 "Alaranth" (1 of 1) ~3.5"

Grammostola rosea BCF 0.1.0 "Orlith" (1 of 1) ~4.5"

Haplopelma lividum 0.0.1 "Sambal" (1 of 3) ~1.5"

Lasiodora parahybana 0.1.0 "Huevos" (1 of 2) ~6.5"

Monocentropus balfouri 0.0.1 "Denim" (1 of 2) ~3"

Nhandu chromatus 0.0.1 "Nerilka" (1 of 1) ~1"

Pterinochilus murinus 1.0.0 "Ananse" (1 of 3) ~3"

Unknown sp red rump 1?.0.0 "UNKle" (1 of 1) ~5"

 

[Formerphobe]

B. vagans 0.1.0 "Menolly" molted 9/30/2011 Now ~3"
Heavy pre-molt on 9/29, even ate a cricket

Early a.m. 9/30

Done!

Recently molted (9/19/11) GBB 0.1.0 "Pitufo" ~3.5"

E. pulcherimaklaasi 0.0.1 "Guinan" ~1.25"

Heavy fog last night made the many spider webs in this boxwood hedge at my job really stand out this morning

 

[annabelle]

I love this photo thread! Beautiful tarantulas!

 

[Formerphobe]

Thank you! One of these days I'll get a real camera so I don't have to juggle flashlight and phone...

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OMG! B. emilia "Benden" caught all the way out of her burrow!

Not a death curl... LP "Huevos" trying to use all eight legs to stuff a cricket in her mouth.

A. genic "Aranha" Eyes bigger than stomach? Nope!

OBT "Meph baby" is starting to pose for the camera.

 

[Formerphobe]

Orlith's molt

MF WC G. rosea, 5" prior to molt. She was on her back at least 12 hours before things started visibly happening. Another ~2 hours to upright and cleaning herself.
Orlith has eight legs again!

Here she was 'fixing' her fangs and pedipalps.

Girly bits.

---------- Post added 10-08-2011 at 09:39 PM ----------

B. emilia "Honshu". Now approximately 3". Exuvium sort of a mess, I think male.

 

[Formerphobe]

Immature male G. pulchra "Faranth"

 

[Formerphobe]

Within 12 hours of molting G. rosea "Orlith" was back in her favorite spot on top of her hide.

"Belinda", Aphonopelma sp 'Murietta', peeking at me from between her pedipalps.

Recently molted LP, "Huevos". Acquired 1 May 2010 as a 0.25" sling, she's now about 6"

I got brave (or stupid...) and took the lid off "Denim's" enclosure to snap some pics. It's teleportation abilities were hindered by the mouthful of cricket.

 

[Formerphobe]

Recently molted MF G. rosea "Orlith"

She's got eight legs again.

 

[Formerphobe]

New babies!

B. albo

C. ritae - I can almost make them out with the naked eye.

And... drum roll please... :
E. murinus

---------- Post added 10-27-2011 at 06:43 PM ----------

G. rosea 'Alaranth', must have remembered she stashed a roach in her hide and decided to dig it up...

 

[Formerphobe]

B. boehmei "Manora" getting a drink.

B. emilia "Honshu" in her not so hidden burrow.