Ariel's picture thread

[Ariel]

I know I don't have very many T's yet, and my photography skills are...not that great, but I love taking pictures and I want to share my wonderful Ts with everyone, I adore them so! Hopefully I'll add to my collection in the future.

I'll probably post more than just my tarantulas here, but for now they're all I'll be posting. So here we go...

I'll start off with a shot of most of my T enclosures (the two on the right are medium arboreal cages from tarantulacages.com, only the one on the right is occupied, the one on the left his for a T I'll be picking up soon)

So from left to right:

Round tub on top: "Spazz" the 1" A. sp. "Flagstaff Orange"
Square tub on botton: "Domino" (if boy)/ "Lola" (if girl) the 3" B. vagans
1 gallon jug: Echo 3"-4" Female C. schioedtei
First tarantulacages.com medium arboreal cage: unoccupied, future home of "Dahlia" AF A. avicularia
Second tarantulacages.com medium arboreal cage: "Bullet" 4"ish MM A. avicularia

Off screen:

20g tank (on my dresser, so unseen ) "Marik" 5" Female (I think) B. smithi

 

[Ariel]

"Spazz"

Now I'll go by each one. This is Spazz a 1" unsexed Aphonopelma Sp. "Flagstaff orange". Spazz is so named because when I first went to feed him he got on his lid and ran laps. He still lives up to his name, silly thing. Here he is:

When I first unpacked him: (He didn't want to leave that little cup)

Now:

 

[Ariel]

"Domino"/"Lola" (undecided)

This one hasn't been named officially yet, the name is either going to be Domino or Lola, it all depends on the gender of this little sweetheart. (personally hoping for a girl ) She/he is a 3" (roughly) inch B. vagans, and I must say I adore the little guy, first T I as able to pinch grab. Plus he's so well mannered. (kind of a pig though, LOL )

When I first got him/her a few days ago:

Now:

(I know, not really a difference, thought I'd post both anyways )

and a sexing pic (Female right???)

 

[Ariel]

"Echo"

After seeing a pic of an adult female C. schioedtei in the largest arboreal thread I knew I HAD to have one, and now I do!!! This is Echo a 3"-4" (roughly, never really measured) female C. schioedtei! She did some exploring when I first got her, but after that she mainly sticks to a little nitch in the back corner, although she was out an about today.

When I first got her (her initial exploration):

Her in the actual hide I previded (instead of her nitch):

She tried getting through a hole near the bottom...I don't think she could fit through :

Heres where she usually sits (are those cricket eggs, I noticed them when I saw a cricket sitting there:8o ):

She's back in her nitch now:

Edit: I just checked and its not her usual nitch, its a NEW nitch. Well at least she's shakin' things up. LOL.

 

[Ariel]

Marik

Don't be fooled by her name, Marik is a 5" Female (or I believe so, I was a noob when i sexed her by molt and didn't know about this site then) B. smithi. She was my very first T and I spend good money to get her as an adult and local. (didn't feel confident in raising a sling back then.) I absolutely adore her, though she's not very friendly, anytime I try anything she kicks hairs at me.

When I first got her:

Sitting on her old hide (she NEVER went in it), this is one of my favorite pics of her!:

cup o' tarantula!~ (Ignore the sand, I got rid of it) (this was during a rehousing btw):

Her exploring after I changed the substrate:

Today:

She's a bit camera shy:

 

[Ariel]

Almost forgot

Marik's the only one of my Ts to molt in my care and she's only done it once, here is her molt:

 

[Ariel]

"Bullet"

This is my second T "Bullet" a 4"ish (never measured) Mature Male A. avicularia. Unfortunately, my petstore buy, I bought him already matured. So time's a tickin' on him. (which sucks D: ) but he's getting a girlfriend soon, I intend to pick up a female at the local reptile show oct. 4th.

(He's also endured a few rehousing because of complications)

Bullet in his first enclosure:

Makin' his first sperm web (in my care):

Loading his palps:

In his second enclosure:

Today in his new enclosure:

(I don't have very many pics of him )

 

[ZergFront]

Nice enclosures. I'd like to get a few from taranulacages sometime.

 

[Ariel]

thanks, ya, they're really great, but the wait is killer. (they're also kind of pricy, but i tried doing the arboreal lids like RobC's but I'm just not that crafty, so its worth it)

 

[Ariel]

new pics...

Got some new ones for today, Marik was hiding and Spazz was....well spazzing out.

Echo's using her hide now after she remodeled it

now I'll see her even less, haha.

So cute, he was trying to climb out, i stopped him.

I still need a sex on this guy, got a bit of a better pic (maybe?)

and something I learned about this guy is he's potty trained:}

Something else I've been able to learn/observe, this time about my MM A. avicularia "Bullet" is that he only makes a new sperm web when I move him to a new cage. Weird, no? I moved him yesterday and this morning I found this (and he's, never in my care, made any kind of shelter/webbing/tube webs, he always just hangs out. ):

 

[DDaake]

Great pics Ariel! They look well taken care of. Sorry I'm not the best at sexing but If I had to guess I'd say the vagans is a male.

 

[Ariel]

Thanks. Ya, thats one someone else said to, goes to show how bad I am at it, I though female. Darn, I was really hoping. Oh well, either way I still love him, he's a sweetheart.

 

[VESPidA]

great job with all the enclosures -- your beautiful Ts are lucky to have such a caring and attentive owner

 

[Scorpendra]

it's pretty cool that you framed Marik's exuvium. i wanted to hold onto my skins when i was starting out, but sentimentalism means nothing to a snooping sister with no understanding of biology, let alone knowledge of the fact that bugs shed their skins and the things i had weren't corpses. eh, it's old news.

great job

 

[Ariel]

great job with all the enclosures -- your beautiful Ts are lucky to have such a caring and attentive owner

Thanks. It gets kind of pricy, but it's worth it.

it's pretty cool that you framed Marik's exuvium. i wanted to hold onto my skins when i was starting out, but sentimentalism means nothing to a snooping sister with no understanding of biology, let alone knowledge of the fact that bugs shed their skins and the things i had weren't corpses. eh, it's old news.

great job

thanks. Luckily even my family who doesn't like my Ts understood, and even thought framing it was pretty awesome. One day I hope to have a really awesome display of them!!

Hopefully soon I'll be picking up a GBB sling, I really want to do a series display to show the color change, that'll be awesome.

 

[Ariel]

Other inverts

I know, they're not Ts, but just showing other inverts I've cared for. :}
Unfortunately my dad won't let me have millies/centipedes or scorps, (or tailess whip scorps, or vinagaroon) But these are simple things I've caught in my yard.

First a little tiny baby mantis.

When I first caught her:

few weeks and a molt later:

After another molt:

Unfortunately she died in a bad molt, her grasping arms got stuck and she fell and twisted her neck, it was really tragic.

My favorite thing to raise are catipillars
These are my latest two, both monarchs.

They both became beautiful butterfilies, but I only got pics of the first one.

 

[sharpfang]

Well done on pix and care.

I think B.Vagans is male as well........sometimes ya can just tell male from slight spindliness and small rump when compared to same size/age female
check exuvium when he molts and pick-up affordable female.................Jason
You can just tell that you enjoy the hobby.......Good luck!

 

[Ariel]

I think B.Vagans is male as well........sometimes ya can just tell male from slight spindliness and small rump when compared to same size/age female
check exuvium when he molts and pick-up affordable female.................Jason
You can just tell that you enjoy the hobby.......Good luck!

well he is still pretty little. I'll check when he/she molts. Well I'll see about getting a female, I've already got two breeding projects planned. it all depends on my parents really. "what you want ANOTHER tarantula?!?!?!"

Thanks. Ya, I really do, especially since it took me 11 year to convince my parents to let me get my first T.

 

[curiousme]

i love the pic of the butterfly on the coleus flower!

Your B. smithi is beautiful and i can't wait until mine is that big!

 

[Ariel]

Thanks, I love that photo too.

She is a gorgrous girl, isn't she! I'm hoping to breed her after her next molt.