Any New Additions?

[Charliemum]

I tracked it down and giftet it to me as an early christmas present. Wanted that one very badly for a while now..

Harpactira cafreriana sling incoming!!!

(pics as soon as it arrives)

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looks like we are sharing our christmas joy.
we should give them matching names

Yay ! So happy for you, it's great when family surprise you like that congratulations

My little one is called Jūratė after the godess of the Baltic sea, she lives in an Amber Palace at the bottom of the sea and long story short she crys tears of Amber for her lost mortal love that to this day wash up on the shore , the name of the Amber queen for the Amber baboon...but if I hadn't already named little one I would 100% have done connected names that sounds like fun. Will have to try and line it up again sometime

Again congratulations I can't wait to see pics

 

[bonewax]

I got an avic yesterday at my local mom and pop petstore. Although, it isn't exact what I thought I was getting. I noticed a month or so ago they had a mature male avic. It had obvious emboli and hooks. It bums me out when I see that because either the spider that has to spend the rest of his life in suboptimal conditions, or im afraid someone who is not experienced will buy it and unknowingly get a pet that doesn't live long. They had a black Friday sale that brought him down to 40. I have a couple arboreal enclosures sitting unoccupied right now, so figured for that price I would go ahead and bring him home and put him in a nice enclosure to keep him comfortable for his last few months. Well when I got him home and was transferring him to his new enclosure, I realized it didn't have emboli or hooks. Now I have an unsexed juvi avic. Oops. Oh well. It's definitely a beautiful spider. It's pretty leggy, so maybe it is a male that will mature next molt.

 

[herpetogeorgie]

I got an avic yesterday at my local mom and pop petstore. Although, it isn't exact what I thought I was getting. I noticed a month or so ago they had a mature male avic. It had obvious emboli and hooks. It bums me out when I see that because either the spider that has to spend the rest of his life in suboptimal conditions, or im afraid someone who is not experienced will buy it and unknowingly get a pet that doesn't live long. They had a black Friday sale that brought him down to 40. I have a couple arboreal enclosures sitting unoccupied right now, so figured for that price I would go ahead and bring him home and put him in a nice enclosure to keep him comfortable for his last few months. Well when I got him home and was transferring him to his new enclosure, I realized it didn't have emboli or hooks. Now I have an unsexed juvi avic. Oops. Oh well. It's definitely a beautiful spider. It's pretty leggy, so maybe it is a male that will mature next molt.

I had a similar situation recently - I had just assumed that one of my Valhallas had matured out male because he looked super pale through the webbing. Turns out he's just turned very pale this molt with no emboli.

I always thought these sorts of changes would happen in just one molt but I suppose it's going to be another before he's ready to pair.

 

[l4nsky]

Picked up 0.0.4 Phormingochilus arboricola from a buddy at a show. I was holding out for a confirmed female as the species isn't too rare, however they were priced right.

With this acquisition, I now own every species of Phormingochilus in the hobby.

 

[NMTs]

Picked up 0.0.4 Phormingochilus arboricola from a buddy at a show. I was holding out for a confirmed female as the species isn't too rare, however they were priced right.

With this acquisition, I now own every species of Phormingochilus in the hobby.

Very nice. I'm just missing the P. sp. Sabah dwarf, so maybe when you're able to produce some of those I can round out my collection.

Have you ever seen anybody with P. tigrinus in a collection?

 

[l4nsky]

Very nice. I'm just missing the P. sp. Sabah dwarf, so maybe when you're able to produce some of those I can round out my collection.

Have you ever seen anybody with P. tigrinus in a collection?

Have a likely penult male Sabah Dwarf coming next week for my mature female .

Vis a vis tigrinus, I think they're still only known from the 1895 holotype, which has seen better days. IIRC, Smith and Jacobi synonimized tigrinus with the everetti holotype on the basis of color (I guess they're the same shade of brown now?!), but Gabriel and Sherwood later restored tigrinus to it's own species after Volker pointed out some pretty clear morphological distinctions in the holotypes.

IMHO, I'm starting to think it might be possible that Sabah Dwarf ends up being tigrinus, but I'll leave that to the taxonomists to confirm or deny. Pocock noted in the original paper that the tigrinus holotype appeared to be mature and the measurements listed are half of the mature everetti holotype. When Everett donated the specimens to the British Natural History Museum, his notes listed the collection site as Northern Borneo, which is basically Sabah state.

 

[NMTs]

Have a likely penult male Sabah Dwarf coming next week for my mature female .

Fantastic news! I'll be eagerly awaiting updates on that project!

 

[Charliemum]

Picked up 0.0.4 Phormingochilus arboricola from a buddy at a show. I was holding out for a confirmed female as the species isn't too rare, however they were priced right.

With this acquisition, I now own every species of Phormingochilus in the hobby.

Congratulations on the completion of Phormingochilus always great to complete a genus but even better when you adore them

 

[denny31x]

Harpactira pulchripes sling
Finally got this species after long time searching

 

[Wolfram1]

not a theraphosa but still
0.0.3 Eresus walckenaeri , cute little things

 

[Charliemum]

not a theraphosa but still
0.0.3 Eresus walckenaeri , cute little things
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Wait till she shoos you away it is possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen

 

[Wolfram1]

Wait till she shoos you away it is possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen

can't wait, they are so smoll though

 

[Charliemum]

can't wait, they are so smoll though

They are but they are not frightened to get you told even at that tiny size but all they do is flap both of their little arms it's like a tiny granny shooing a cat

When they web is cure too their little bk legs go so fast to fluff up their web once you see it you will be constantly watching to try n catch them doing it . They are very addictive little spoods .
I have had 7 over my time in keeping, unfortunately all but 1 has turned into a mm n the one that was female I bought as a female .
I have come to the conclusion I am not ment to keep Eresus .
I will very much enjoy seeing yours though, I expect lots of pics

 

[l4nsky]

0.1 Cyriopagopus sp Kalimantan. Got a small group of these in today for a potential future project. I believe these are likely a locality of C. doriae as I've come across a few older records indicating there is variability in their famous orange fringe depending upon collection locality, with the North and East Kalimantan localities producing the more vibrant specimens.

 

[NMTs]

New sling day today!

0.0.1 Avicularia sp. Kwitara River


0.0.1 Iridopelma sp. Rosa


0.0.2 Harpactira sp. Silaka


0.0.2 Sahydroaraneus raja


0.0.3 Cyriocosmus sp. Pinturas



0.0.3 Anqasha picta



0.0.4 Eucratoscelus pachypus



Might be time to get my eyes checked - it was hard to see some of these tiny little ones! 🥸

 

[Charliemum]

New sling day today!

0.0.1 Avicularia sp. Kwitara River
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0.0.1 Iridopelma sp. Rosa
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0.0.2 Harpactira sp. Silaka
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0.0.2 Sahydroaraneus raja
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0.0.3 Cyriocosmus sp. Pinturas
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0.0.3 Anqasha picta
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0.0.4 Eucratoscelus pachypus
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Might be time to get my eyes checked - it was hard to see some of these tiny little ones! 🥸

Ti's what the bairns are for ..."son can you spot the tiny t n tell me where it is before I open the pot " gotta earn their keep somehow .

Congratulations on the baby's btw am especially curious about the picta been looking at these, I like their stripes

 

[sparticus]

Recently picked up a few new babies, some species that have been on my list for a bit.
Most excited about the T. Cyaneolum sling:
Also picked up an Amazonius burgessi, who isn't into pics all that much. Thinking it looks a bit male-ish ventrally, but the vendor only had one left:
Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus, which is not into being seen, at all currently.
And I finally caved to the peer pressure (and a super great sale price ), and picked up my first A. Geniculata baby. Just look at that cute little face!

 

[YellowBrickRoad]

I picked up this sweet B. smithi ex. annitha 5in female today at a reptile show. Sheesh, all I went for was a new batch of roaches and crickets.



As a freebie to myself for not having to pay shipping, I got myself a less leggy X. intermedia. There was a molt left behind, I'm hoping I can sex it. It also needs to be rehoused. Tomorrow will do.



I really wanted that T. apophysis 6in female and blondi 4-5instar sling. Oh well.

Next time,
YellowBrickRoad

 

[Wolfram1]

0.0.1 Grammostola pulchripes
0.0.2 Thrixopelma cyaneolum

 

[DaveOB]

0.0.2 Caribena versicolor
0.0.2 Amazonius burgessi
0.1 Psalmopoeus pulcher.

The versicolors and burgessi are 1-2cm slings. The burgessi look to have settled in quite quickly after only 2 days, and have both started spinning tube webs against the side of their containers, whilst the versicolors don't look like they've spun any silk yet.
The pulcher was ordered as a 10cm female, but moulted just before the dealer was going to send it out. This meant that the shipping was delayed for a week, but I have a 12-13cm female, which from my reading on here would seem to be adult size (or not far off!). Being freshly moulted, she's absolutely gorgeous too!