Azula's fire! My H. Pulchripes juvie.

Sauga Bound

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LOL,

Little Zool has the electric blue legs and is looking absolutely gorge!

Her name can be read three ways: as in Azul, like the color blue; Azula, my favorite ATLA character; or Zul, the Babylonian demon that changed into the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man in uptown Manhattan. Ghost Busters was the first movie I saw in theater, lol.

I definitely should have gained more experience before buying an OW species, but I'm enjoying keeping her. She's been a sweet and docile girl. I leave her to her spider stuff and she leaves me to my human stuff. I did have to remove the lid to fish out a rotting bolus on Monday. She was in one of her hides, with the door closed, so I went for it. It took me half-an-hour to confirm her location in hide #1, remove some of her web tunnels that connect the two sections of cork, dig out a corner of the enclosure, find the bolus, and tidy everything up.

I think she's a little pissed because I haven't seen her since, but she was being less visible for some reason. Usually she spends the day (and night) looking like a crashed out drunk, draped across a little vertical round of cork that she loves to hang out in. She ate like a champ when I first acquired her five weeks ago, but her abdomen is pretty plump and she appears to be fasting or maybe entering premolt.

Meanwhile, my sweet little Pulchra is also in heavy premolt and I'm getting an Avicularia Jurensis M2 (Peru Purple) on the weekend. I've decided to stop collecting spiders for now and focus on the girls I've got, lol. I've got beautiful adult Tarantula Crib enclosures for each one of them, so my first priority is getting them old enough to use them, even if there are SO many cool spiders to choose from. I think four is a good number for now. It gives me plenty of variety without being overwhelming.

This spicy girl does change the equation a bit, though. She's already about 4" dls, so I may move her to a large slider soon to give us both lots of space. Her temperament has been very chill and I feel glad I have her despite her OW reputation.
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Nitroxide

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She is so pretty!! Congrats on the soon new addition as well. It's always fun to keep a spicy one (or 10) in a collection, keeps things edgy!
 

HoneyOilers

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LOL,

Little Zool has the electric blue legs and is looking absolutely gorge!

Her name can be read three ways: as in Azul, like the color blue; Azula, my favorite ATLA character; or Zul, the Babylonian demon that changed into the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man in uptown Manhattan. Ghost Busters was the first movie I saw in theater, lol.

I definitely should have gained more experience before buying an OW species, but I'm enjoying keeping her. She's been a sweet and docile girl. I leave her to her spider stuff and she leaves me to my human stuff. I did have to remove the lid to fish out a rotting bolus on Monday. She was in one of her hides, with the door closed, so I went for it. It took me half-an-hour to confirm her location in hide #1, remove some of her web tunnels that connect the two sections of cork, dig out a corner of the enclosure, find the bolus, and tidy everything up.

I think she's a little pissed because I haven't seen her since, but she was being less visible for some reason. Usually she spends the day (and night) looking like a crashed out drunk, draped across a little vertical round of cork that she loves to hang out in. She ate like a champ when I first acquired her five weeks ago, but her abdomen is pretty plump and she appears to be fasting or maybe entering premolt.

Meanwhile, my sweet little Pulchra is also in heavy premolt and I'm getting an Avicularia Jurensis M2 (Peru Purple) on the weekend. I've decided to stop collecting spiders for now and focus on the girls I've got, lol. I've got beautiful adult Tarantula Crib enclosures for each one of them, so my first priority is getting them old enough to use them, even if there are SO many cool spiders to choose from. I think four is a good number for now. It gives me plenty of variety without being overwhelming.

This spicy girl does change the equation a bit, though. She's already about 4" dls, so I may move her to a large slider soon to give us both lots of space. Her temperament has been very chill and I feel glad I have her despite her OW reputation.
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Hey if you’re ready, you’re ready. My H. Pulchripes was my fourth spider, first old world, and I’m not sure which it is yet, calm, or bold. It does not like to hide much, even when the enclosure is disturbed. And I love that even at 1” my sling is already showing that yellow and blue colouration.
 

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IntermittentSygnal

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That's steel blue, almost gray, def. not electric blue ;)

El blue below



When I read electric blue, I first thought Birupes simoroxigorum.


 

Mustafa67

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LOL,

Little Zool has the electric blue legs and is looking absolutely gorge!

Her name can be read three ways: as in Azul, like the color blue; Azula, my favorite ATLA character; or Zul, the Babylonian demon that changed into the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man in uptown Manhattan. Ghost Busters was the first movie I saw in theater, lol.

I definitely should have gained more experience before buying an OW species, but I'm enjoying keeping her. She's been a sweet and docile girl. I leave her to her spider stuff and she leaves me to my human stuff. I did have to remove the lid to fish out a rotting bolus on Monday. She was in one of her hides, with the door closed, so I went for it. It took me half-an-hour to confirm her location in hide #1, remove some of her web tunnels that connect the two sections of cork, dig out a corner of the enclosure, find the bolus, and tidy everything up.

I think she's a little pissed because I haven't seen her since, but she was being less visible for some reason. Usually she spends the day (and night) looking like a crashed out drunk, draped across a little vertical round of cork that she loves to hang out in. She ate like a champ when I first acquired her five weeks ago, but her abdomen is pretty plump and she appears to be fasting or maybe entering premolt.

Meanwhile, my sweet little Pulchra is also in heavy premolt and I'm getting an Avicularia Jurensis M2 (Peru Purple) on the weekend. I've decided to stop collecting spiders for now and focus on the girls I've got, lol. I've got beautiful adult Tarantula Crib enclosures for each one of them, so my first priority is getting them old enough to use them, even if there are SO many cool spiders to choose from. I think four is a good number for now. It gives me plenty of variety without being overwhelming.

This spicy girl does change the equation a bit, though. She's already about 4" dls, so I may move her to a large slider soon to give us both lots of space. Her temperament has been very chill and I feel glad I have her despite her OW reputation.
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She’s gorgeous
 

Sauga Bound

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Haha, so "electric blue" is controversial. I love that so much.

Thanks to everyone who's commented. I enjoyed reading your posts.

HoneyOilers, mine was like that until four days ago. Then she disappeared into her cork, closed the door, and I haven't seen her since. She's probably coming out late at night, but I don't see her any more during the day or evening/morning, which is weird. Anyhow, I'm going to wait until I can see her before I introduce any live feeders. She's not great at snagging stragglers, and then I have to try and fish them out. She wasn't very interested in food the last couple of weeks. When I see her out again, or even just blue feets prowling under the web, I'll toss her a couple crickets.

All my spiders are being wierd right now. I think it's a seasonal thing.
 

IntermittentSygnal

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Viper is referring to the fact that Chilobrachys natanicharum was known as “Chilobrachys sp electric blue” before it was formally described (named) not too long ago. So his “electric blue” is more correct, lol. I just think of B simoroxigorum because their legs are completely electric blue (except for mature males).
 
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