A few other sling images

[buthus]

revivensis

Male pallidus sling

mactans ...oh how these have changed after a couple of molts!

spitter sling. They have lost much of their color, but are starting to get interesting to watch ...and big enough to keep track of. Not sure how many I have left though ...10 or 12 probably. A couple deaths, but with little or no evidence.

 

[rex_arachne]

cool widow slings pics.

 

[buthus]

 

[Glen Southern]

I keep looking at the spitters. Martin Goss has a few left over here and I keep meaning to mail him to get a couple. Those early pics you posted were very striking with the really high contrast.

 

[buthus]

I keep looking at the spitters. Martin Goss has a few left over here and I keep meaning to mail him to get a couple. Those early pics you posted were very striking with the really high contrast.

My spitter slings are dwindling in numbers. I couldnt figure out what was happening to them until a few nights ago. Before that, I would find what seemed to be a molt or a dead sling attached to another mass ...almost loooked like prey. But, then I saw what happens. When one has troubles during molting, a sibling will walk right over and start eating it! Its a cruel little world in that spitter enclosure. I hope I end up with at least a few adults. Trying to keep the humidity up, but I am only making an assumption to whats causing the molting failures.

 

[RodG]

Out of 11 spitter slings, I am now down to 6. Jordan has said they are very delicate and it seems to be so. I have kept mine seperately but the ones that are left have molted at least once and are aggressive feeders. What is really neat is that the pinheads I feed out almost immediately become paralyzed when the spitters shoot them with their venom. I too am hoping to get some to adulthood.