Billopelma picture thread

[AlainL]

Wow, very nice photos and collection:clap:

You should post more often

 

[billopelma]

As always, thanks for the compliments.
Guess I should be returning a few, you guys have some of the best stuff out there. Past time for me to 'step up' also and get a DSLR, still holding out for some of the N D300 features to filter down to the cheaper models...

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

If you look through the thread there's an older pic of my setup (still looks about the same just more larger tanks less smaller). It's located somewhere in the middle, try post #'s in the 80's) and there's lots of tank shots scattered throughout. Don't really like doing whole enclosures, the pics never do them justice. Doesn't seem to capture the depth, they always lack an acceptable dimensional quality.

The numbers are gender designations, first is male, second female, third unsexed. For instance if it was P. sp. 2.0.1, it would mean I have 2 males, 0 females and 1 unsexed of that particular genus/species.
Doesn't work that well for me with the photo thread though as I'm not very consistent. Sometimes 0.1.0 means there is one female in the pic and I may or may not have others but 0.2.0 could mean two are in the pic or there is only one in the pic but I have two.


Bill

 

[Singbluemymind]

oh sweet thanks man i appciate it

 

[billopelma]

Been a while, still same old stuff mostly...


Pamphobeteus sp. "south equador" 0.1.0

P. antinous 0.1.0

Fresh molt. From one molt to the next went from brown to black and now back to browner than ever.

H. villosella 0.1.0

G. actaeon 0.1.0

T. apophysis 0.1.0

P. rufilata 1.0.0 MM

M. mesomelas 1.0.0

B. smithi 1.0.0

ornithoctonae sp. "malaysia" 1.0.0 MM ("singapore blue")
Having a drink

L. parahybana 0.1.0

Euathlus sp. "yellow" 0.1.0

Haplopelma sp. "bach ma" 0.1.0
Like the antinous, browned out on this molt...

Haplopelma sp. "bach ma" 1.0.0 MM
From Syndicate, looking down undecidedly...

P. murinus 0.0.7

Euathlus sp. "gold" "montaine" 0.1.0

B. cyaneifemur 0.1.0

Picked up some cresties

Had a guest for a while, found it in my fire place in november while cleaning. Must have climbed the ivy on the chimney and fell in. Was not a happy captive, had to wait a month for a day warm enough to release it...

Bill

 

[rejected1]

Wow, very nice collection there, billopelma. And great shots! =]

 

[billopelma]

Been awhile, guess I need to catch up...

0.1 P. sp. "platyomma" #1
Looked good...

Caught in the act Munching but too late...

Tried saving it, not much left to save...

Female #2 did one too but was apparently infertile...

Haplo sp. mm

H. sp. "gigas" mm

P. sp. "machala" mm

0.1 T. apophysis

How would you like to put you're face in there and blow...

0.1 G. pulchra

0.1 H. schmidti

prior molt...

H. schmidti(?) mm

0.0.1 A. versicolor

0.1 A. versicolor

0.1 P. rufilata

P. rufilata mm

M. robustom mm

0.1 H. maculata

0.0.1 C. cyaneopubescens

0.0.1 A. sp. "amazonica"

C. sp. "machala" mm

H. incei communal's

Eating pasta, the isopods get right in there too...

Communal #2

Side of my house, notice the similarity to my terrariums...

B. gigas

T. olegranjeaniei

A. tesselata

Dropped R. ciliatus tail for lunch...

X 2

0.2 R. ciliatus

1.0 R. ciliatus

Tokay's, "the anti-crestie"

Ambystoma maculatum

Raised a couple hundred thousand galerucela (sp?) beetles for a purple loostrife (invasive plant) control project last year.

Had a bunch of these colonizing the colony...

Some field shots...

Bill

 

[JC]

W-O-W!!!

tokay's, "the anti-crestie"

bill

lol.

 

[syndicate]

Hey Bill nice to see ya posting!
Excellent photos!!Any chance that schmidti male is still kicking round?
Also was it displaying that goldish coloration prior to maturing?
-Chris

 

[seanbond]

thanx for posting on this awesum thread!

 

[billopelma]

Hey Guys, I still take plenty of pics, just don't find the time to organize/photobucket 'em. Too many things competing for my free time, guess I'd rather spend it on the actual critters rather than the pics.

Any chance that schmidti male is still kicking round?
Also was it displaying that goldish coloration prior to maturing?

Chris, no he's long gone, cohabited with the fem for months before she munched him. If you look way back on the first page here, you'll see him in his younger days, (had him since '05) quite a bit of gold. He darkened up a lot on the maturing molt. Supposedly was from one of those (never substantiated) sacs with a mix of light and dark forms of schmidti, back in the pre-hainanum days. I was never sure on the ID, figured if I got a sac I'd send him off to Volker for a more definite finding. The fem eventually molted anyway...

On a bummer note, my "Bach Ma" fem expired a few days ago. She had a long premolt and I hadn't seen much of her for months. When I saw a bunch of those little flies in the enclosure I dug her out, she had completed the molt but something obviously went wrong. Looked like she never even hardened up, maybe a wet molt.
I still have your mm in the freezer if you decide you want him back...


Bill

 

[syndicate]

Hey Guys, I still take plenty of pics, just don't find the time to organize/photobucket 'em. Too many things competing for my free time, guess I'd rather spend it on the actual critters rather than the pics.



Chris, no he's long gone, cohabited with the fem for months before she munched him. If you look way back on the first page here, you'll see him in his younger days, (had him since '05) quite a bit of gold. He darkened up a lot on the maturing molt. Supposedly was from one of those (never substantiated) sacs with a mix of light and dark forms of schmidti, back in the pre-hainanum days. I was never sure on the ID, figured if I got a sac I'd send him off to Volker for a more definite finding. The fem eventually molted anyway...

On a bummer note, my "Bach Ma" fem expired a few days ago. She had a long premolt and I hadn't seen much of her for months. When I saw a bunch of those little flies in the enclosure I dug her out, she had completed the molt but something obviously went wrong. Looked like she never even hardened up, maybe a wet molt.
I still have your mm in the freezer if you decide you want him back...


Bill

Ahh man sorry to hear about the "Bach Ma" :[
One day we will get some of these going over here!Maybe I will have to take a trip to Vietnam haha..
I'd like to get that male back at some point tho.I will send ya some cash for shipping when I get a chance man.
-Chris

 

[seanbond]

sux to hear about your bach ma, guess chris is the only one now.

 

[crawltech]

Excellent thread man....lovin your pics/set ups, and all the other critters aswell....keep up the GREAT work!!!!!!

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

I love the pics of the h. incei communal, especially the one with the sling over mom's eyes. What sp. of pokie do you have in that really tall setup? Is that rulfiata? Great pics. Keep em coming. :clap:

 

[syndicate]

sux to hear about your bach ma, guess chris is the only one now.

Nope mine are all dead now to :[

I love the pics of the h. incei communal, especially the one with the sling over mom's eyes.

That photo is awesome agreed!I will also say that bills incei communal is one of the best lookin tanks I think I've seen!Pretty much the main reason I tried keeping them communaly myself hehe!

 

[fatich]

Awesome thread and pictures,keep on updating.

 

[billopelma]

What sp. of pokie do you have in that really tall setup? Is that rulfiata?

Rufilata it is, the same communal with a male and two females you'll see interspersed though this thread, starting from when they were slings.
The original male has since matured and passed, that's a fresh one in the recent pics. I finally split them up after being together since '06 as I'm hoping one or both are knocked up. When I first put this male in with them it was a rufilata orgy, he was going back and forth between the two females and the fems were even twiddling with each other. I got some video of it and also of some group feeding in the incei setup, never tried to post video, I'll have to figure out how to host/link it.

I'd like to get that male back at some point tho.I will send ya some cash for shipping when I get a chance man.

I sent you a PM ages ago asking for a ship to addr, guess you missed it.
No worries on the shipping cost, that's my obligation as part of the 50/50...

Bill

 

[billopelma]

Here y'all go, sorry the rufilata vid is poorly lit and sideways, the enclosure was so dirty and webbed up the glare made front lighting impossible. The video was an afterthought, really wasn't my primary concern at the time...





Took a series of these over a short period of time when there was a fortuitous big hole right in front where a couple big females and their broods were hanging out. Didn't last long before that changed. As you can see from the blurry zoomed out views the terrarium is in pretty beat up condition compared to the pics you see elsewhere in the thread. It's a cyclical thing where they leave things be for a while and I can replant and get things established then they get active again and web the whole or part of everything over and/or dig it all up. At the present I'd be embarrassed to show what it looks like as it's been very active and is pretty much barren of plantlife. They're getting big and it's probably due for a much dreaded rehousing anyway...




I'll post some more as I get them hosted, hope they work for everyone.

Bill

 

[x Mr Awesome x]

Holy crap! This easy top three pic threads I've ever seen. Amazing job Bill and thank you for taking the time to post such beautiful pics!

-ben

 

[LazyRoadrunner]

Your T. Apophysis looks great, hope to have similar collection in the distant future. tnx for sharing.