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Awesome thread, great pics, and love the vids. Very happy to subscribe to this one
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got some nice sp n setups!
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P. murinus 0.1.0
Out for rehousing because...
She snuck a sac in on me, seems like more than a year since I mated her and the male lasted only a minute before getting munched. Had basically forgotten about it until I started finding little obt slings all over my house, lots of 1/8" vent holes in the enclosure were nice little doorways. The house spiders have been earning their keep cleaning most of them up but it's over a week later and I just found two more. When I noticed the first few I assumed it was a new batch from one of the incei colonies but soon realized after getting a close look it was not the case. Probably shouldn't have been scooping them up by hand, lol.
Was a bit of a task separating the non escapes from the original enclosure as it was completely webbed up from top to bottom. In spite of dozens of escapes there are still over a hundred left. At the end I had a tangled mess of dirt, bark and sticks with slings hiding in every crevice. Had to go through all the layers of webbing by hand and ended up with them scampering all over me, I guess they aren't so apt to bite at that size.
The rufilata mating has now graduated to a breeding, only one bad egg and they're well into third instar with no deaths so far. I left them with mom for the whole term and didn't pull them out until second instar. The male is still healthy after over a year and has been mated with this female again, as well as the other female who had molted out since the last go around.
Got a loaner mm P. platyomma from Cody Kerr and had some good hookups with at least one of my two girls.
[YOUTUBE]8Ho8uBAcRUY[/YOUTUBE]
She squeezed 'em out in the wee hours and I missed it.
Next morning she had lost some weight...
Still waiting on the other girl, she's fat as hell but that's pretty typical for these even when not gravid. Hopefully will go better than last time, I think I'll pull the sac in a couple weeks on this one and give that a go. With all the mating attempts going on, I managed to mix up the two girls
and now I don't know which was the sac muncher and which had the infertile sac.
Another loaner mm, C. schioedtei...
In he goes...
Sorry, another sideways one...
[YOUTUBE]EczudHtvjo4[/YOUTUBE]
Co-habed them for a time and she eventually ate him.
She's been a bit slow lately and frequently hangs around all bunched up, I'm a little concerned...
Still more G. pulchra mating action with the smaller fem, he will just go at it when ever...
Loading up the emboli...
[YOUTUBE]YiZHhHs57WI[/YOUTUBE]
An incei escape attempt, didn't think they were small enough still to get this far. It's coxa were stuck on the corners of the hole, I had to squeeze it's leg's together with tweezers while pushing down on the cheliserae with another pair. Took a while under a magnifier but was successful.
Some incei footage...
[YOUTUBE]x88a2D4Awf4[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]veAVyCSZwnU[/YOUTUBE]
Bill
Out for rehousing because...
She snuck a sac in on me, seems like more than a year since I mated her and the male lasted only a minute before getting munched. Had basically forgotten about it until I started finding little obt slings all over my house, lots of 1/8" vent holes in the enclosure were nice little doorways. The house spiders have been earning their keep cleaning most of them up but it's over a week later and I just found two more. When I noticed the first few I assumed it was a new batch from one of the incei colonies but soon realized after getting a close look it was not the case. Probably shouldn't have been scooping them up by hand, lol.
Was a bit of a task separating the non escapes from the original enclosure as it was completely webbed up from top to bottom. In spite of dozens of escapes there are still over a hundred left. At the end I had a tangled mess of dirt, bark and sticks with slings hiding in every crevice. Had to go through all the layers of webbing by hand and ended up with them scampering all over me, I guess they aren't so apt to bite at that size.
The rufilata mating has now graduated to a breeding, only one bad egg and they're well into third instar with no deaths so far. I left them with mom for the whole term and didn't pull them out until second instar. The male is still healthy after over a year and has been mated with this female again, as well as the other female who had molted out since the last go around.
Got a loaner mm P. platyomma from Cody Kerr and had some good hookups with at least one of my two girls.
[YOUTUBE]8Ho8uBAcRUY[/YOUTUBE]
She squeezed 'em out in the wee hours and I missed it.
Next morning she had lost some weight...
Still waiting on the other girl, she's fat as hell but that's pretty typical for these even when not gravid. Hopefully will go better than last time, I think I'll pull the sac in a couple weeks on this one and give that a go. With all the mating attempts going on, I managed to mix up the two girls
and now I don't know which was the sac muncher and which had the infertile sac.Another loaner mm, C. schioedtei...
In he goes...
Sorry, another sideways one...
[YOUTUBE]EczudHtvjo4[/YOUTUBE]
Co-habed them for a time and she eventually ate him.
She's been a bit slow lately and frequently hangs around all bunched up, I'm a little concerned...
Still more G. pulchra mating action with the smaller fem, he will just go at it when ever...
Loading up the emboli...
[YOUTUBE]YiZHhHs57WI[/YOUTUBE]
An incei escape attempt, didn't think they were small enough still to get this far. It's coxa were stuck on the corners of the hole, I had to squeeze it's leg's together with tweezers while pushing down on the cheliserae with another pair. Took a while under a magnifier but was successful.
Some incei footage...
[YOUTUBE]x88a2D4Awf4[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]veAVyCSZwnU[/YOUTUBE]
Bill
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Chelsiukas
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Oh wow, quite a story about those OBTs! Thanks for sharing, man. BTW, great pictures! Greetings from Denmark.
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All point and shoot stuff, most of the more recent ones were done with a Canon G9, some with a Pentax W60. This thread has been around long enough though that I've been through about five camera's during that time. There's more info about the old stuff on the first or second page...
A couple more mating vid's, with the bigger of my two girls. These and some of the previous ones are shot in HD and can be viewed reasonably well in full screen 720p.
G. pulchra
[YOUTUBE]t7b_lbru38k[/YOUTUBE]
[YOUTUBE]jby78xVRdCI[/YOUTUBE]
Bill