Billopelma picture thread

[billopelma]

The 'bach ma' is doing very well presently. She was very skittish and picky about eating for a while but she's been out all the time and eating anything lately. I stacked a bit more height to her enclosure and she appears to like it.

H. sp. "Bach Ma" 0.1.0

H. sp. 'minaxvonwirthiwhatever'

In situ

G. pulchra 0.1.0

#1 pulchra all fresh and shiny from recent molt

P. formosa 0.2.0

The male died recently, he stayed really small and was a very reluctant eater. Had him for almost a year in with the females and he was still under 2". Shortly before his demise, he got dyskinetic like symptoms, jerky movements and such.

Bill

 

[syndicate]

oooh bach ma is lookin nice!!

 

[billopelma]

A. versicolor 1.0.0 mature

Avicularia sp. "hobby huriana" 0.1.0

M. mesomelas 3.0.0
One of my juveniles just molted to adult colors

Mature male

M. robustum 2.0.0

Nemesidae sp. "gold" "Trinidad" 1.0.0 mature

Euathlus sp. "gold" "montaine" 0.2.0

P. formosa 0.2.0

B. auratum 2.0.0

C. darlingi 1.0.0 mature

A. brocklehursti 0.1.0
Back to the beachball butt...

T. apophysis 0.1.0

Bill

 

[Pulk]

Wow, you have some beautiful tarantulas.

 

[syndicate]

man awesome pics!thanks for sharing

 

[Sharpy808]

Nice Ceratogyrus, and nice pics once again.

 

[billopelma]

P. fortis 1.0.0 mature

P. antinous 0.1.0
premolt

postmolt

G. aureostriata 0.1.0

G. actaeon 0.1.0

B auratum 1.0.0

X. immanis 0.1.0

P. regalis 0.1.0

M. mesomelas 1.0.0 mature

Beetle

Bill

 

[billopelma]

H. incei communal setup.
Last summer I had two sacs made within days of each other, one produced 37 slings, the other most went bad and only ended up with 11. I gave half of them, all from the first sac, to the owner of the male (he's also keeping them together). I've kept the remaining two groups of 11 and 12 communal.
This is one group of a dozen including the mom, it's been going in this particular setup for a couple months or so.

Bill

 

[PoPpiLLs]

Billopelma your H. incei communal setup is amazing and so are the pics. :clap:

 

[syndicate]

wow Bill!that is an excellent tank you've built there.very natural looking!it must be fun watching them all together
have any males in the group matured yet?
once again impressive set-up!:clap:

 

[pedro041484]

sexiest A. brocklehursti ever! NICE BIG BUTT!:worship: nice collection :clap:

 

[billopelma]

Some different equipment used on some of these, still just point and shoot stuff though. Played around with a Canon A650is for a couple months then decided to return it and got a Canon G9. I still find the little Pentax optio wp to be better in many situations, even though it's a couple years old and cost half as much.

P. murinus 0.2.0
rehousing...

P. fortis 2.0.0
my #2, looks a bit different than my #1 did at this size.

"purchased as" Euathlus sp. "gold, lowland" 0.2.0

L. parahybana 0.1.0

A. brocklehursti 0.1.0
fresh postmolt, still fat anyway, as usual...

P. spinulopalpus 0.1.0
This unassuming looking little girl is the most likely of any t' I keep to strike a threat pose at the slightest disturbance, she'll go right over on her back with the third drop of water.

X. immanis 0.1.0

A. versicolor 0.1.0

P. sp. "south equador" 1.0.0
Fresh post molt...

then darkened up.

P. sp. "platyomma" 0.1.0
Fresh postmolt.

P. antinous 0.1.0

C. schioedtei 0.1.0

M. mesomelas 2.0.0
Darkened up a bit from the postmolt pics, the other one just molted also but doesn't want to come out and play yet.

M. mesomelas 1.0.0 mature
This guy just got sent out to to do his thing.

P. rufilata 0.2.0
One of the girls in my communal group.

A. sp. "bicegoi" 0.1.0

B. boehmei 1.0.0
Has been just begging to get his picture taken. You can see the two different white balance settings, can't seem to get it quite right, too blue, too yellow...

Bill

 

[syndicate]

Bill as always amazing pictures!some great macro shots
-Chris

 

[billopelma]

C. sanderi 1.1.0

postmolt 0.1.0

premolt 0.1.0

postmolt 1.0.0

premolt 1.0.0

C. marshalli 0.1.0

T. apophysis 0.1.0

Cyclosternum sp. "machalla" 0.0.1

G. aureostriata 0.0.1

H maculata 0.0.1

Pamphobeteus sp. "s. equador" 1.0.0

P. fortis 1.0.0 #2

P. fortis 1.0.0 mature #1

P. platyomma 0.1.0 #2

P. antinous 0.1.0

Euathlus sp. "gold" "lowland" 0.1.0

B. cyaneifemur 0.1.0

Bill

 

[syndicate]

wow that antinous is a beauty!!i dunno why but i have a thing for all black spiders.great pics Bill!
always nice to see you update your thread :]
hey mabey you can add some more pics of that incei communal setup next time?
hows that doing btw?

 

[billopelma]

Hey Chris,

Yeah, that antinous really peaked on this molt, growing quick like most pamhpo's. After all the butt in the air threat posturing and hair kicking, she's a teddy bear once out of the enclosure, almost as calm as my pulchras'.

Not much to report on the incei group, it's only been going in that set for about four months, still seems pretty stable. The bugs are getting bigger but most are staying in they're original spots, haven't seen the mom in a month. I have a bunch more pics but have been saving them to start a separate thread, someday anyway.

I also have the other group in a much smaller basic set, the mother of that batch escaped early on so I didn't need much space for just the slings. Probably about due for a rehousing though and I can get a count to see who's still there, should be a dozen...

Bill

 

[billopelma]

P. pulcher 0.1.0

P. murinus 0.1.0

T. gigas mature male

Haplopelma sp. mature male. hainanum, schmidti or something in between...

C. sanderi 1.1.0

B. cyaneifemur 0.1.0

P. sp. "platyomma" mature male

C. sp. "singapore blue" mature male

P. nigricolor mature male

D. tenebrosus 0.1.0

Bill

 

[fartkowski]

Great picturs
I always like looking at them.

 

[Singbluemymind]

amazing pics man you should post some of you spider room and tanks. what do the numbers next to the name mean

 

[seanbond]

geeeezuzzzz!
iv got to step my game up^
Sick collect n setups!