No, this is a bioactive setup though ironically I live where this is local and this is a wild individual, got as a juvenile evident from the past pictures in the Orphnaecus genus album
No, this is a bioactive setup though ironically I live where this is local and this is a wild individual, got as a juvenile evident from the past pictures in the Orphnaecus genus
I went through your album and did some investigating. Awesome to find these naturally in your region. I lived in Arizona here in the US, home to many Aphonopelma species, a variety of scorpions, and a couple interesting centipedes. It never got old exploring the desert to look at Critters. Seems you enjoy the same stuff on the other side of the world in the Philippines. Anyway, great job once again, and great spider!
I went through your album and did some investigating. Awesome to find these naturally in your region. I lived in Arizona here in the US, home to many Aphonopelma species, a variety of scorpions, and a couple interesting centipedes. It never got old exploring the desert to look at Critters. Seems you enjoy the same stuff on the other side of the world in the Philippines. Anyway, great job once again, and great spider!
Glad to see another person enjoying the search for these animals out in the wild, the only difference I see is that instead of deserts we have forests here haha, and that it's not nearly as documented here comparatively. Like, most Aphonopelma there from what I understand are relatively easy to differentiate and classify whereas the only main philippine tarantula that is well understood here is Orphnaecus philippinus, which hails from a different region where I hail, I hail from the northern highlands and the POT comes from the region known as Visayas. We have loads of random invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and even crustaceans up here.
As for the enclosure, admittedly it desperately needs some pruning, it grows like a weed and has jutted out of the enclosure at this point.
Glad to see another person enjoying the search for these animals out in the wild, the only difference I see is that instead of deserts we have forests here haha, and that it's not nearly as documented here comparatively. Like, most Aphonopelma there from what I understand are relatively easy to differentiate and classify whereas the only main philippine tarantula that is well understood here is Orphnaecus philippinus, which hails from a different region where I hail, I hail from the northern highlands and the POT comes from the region known as Visayas. We have loads of random invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and even crustaceans up here.
As for the enclosure, admittedly it desperately needs some pruning, it grows like a weed and has jutted out of the enclosure at this point.
There's actually a pretty decent variety of Aphonopelma in southern Arizona where I lived, but you're right, most are described. Overwhelming majority are A. chalcodes though. Species local to you are much more interesting to in my opinion, especially when you grow a jungle in a box for them like you've got there!
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