African Red Trapdoor Spider, home with a View

[The Snark]

I didn't doubt the genus, I simply had access to the spider and the documents to ID it, so I gave it a shot and had success. The only thing I needed to ID was a good shot of cheliceral teeth, sternum/sigilla, ocular area measurements & coxa setae.

Your reply should be a sticky, quotable for the people who ask for the exact make, model and optional accessories of a pidey.

 

[Ciphor]

That enclosier looks cool. Do the Red trap doors also build hidden tunnels? How big do they get? Myrmekiaphila comstocki trap doors only get about an inch. Had to give them up before I moved to Texas But now Iam thinking of getting a couple more of them your red trap door realy looks huge does he eat full size crickets?

Sorry I missed this!

This particular species of trapdoor has only been observed to burrow straight down, and sometimes laterally at the bottom of tunnel if the substrate does not provide enough depth. There are some strange ones out there though, one species makes a system of tunnels with doors and chambers. Females will lay egg in a chamber where slings can hatch, be safe, while not bothering mom.

I'm not sure what this spiders average size is. When I received mine (unknown age) she was already female and mature, and roughly 2 inches (leg span). She had a real solid molt a few months ago and gained darn near an inch, I kid you not, you can see her in the picture, she is a biggy alright.

My gal definitely eats full sized crickets. This family has also been documented taking down small vertebrates, so I could feed her a pinky or an anole or something. I never would however, due to extra strain/stress. I mostly feed her once a month since she had her last molt, 1 small to medium cricket, lots of water in a bottle cap.

 

[tonypace2009]

I have had some of the local trap doors about 7 of them .even had a eggsac full of them
I had to let them go because we moved and couldn't have them where we where staying.
Iam thinking of getting another one.your red is really awesome where did you get him and how much?
I also saw a couple of silver ones a few months ago they looked crome plated.

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

I've always found the eye arrangement of these quite interesting.

 

[nzcookie]

wow what a cool way to do it!!! ivc always wanted to be able to see what my trapdoors were doing under all the substrate!! might have to steal this idea haha awesome wee spider man

 

[Enven Reptiles]

im going to try this with some euoplus trapdoors