Bugmom's Tarantulas

[Bugmom]

It feels like forever, but in reality she's only been in premolt like 3 weeks.

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[Gilberator]

That picture of her giving you daps is awesome. I want a T five!!!!!! Congrats on the molt!!! You get to see it!

 

[Bugmom]

Freshly molted!
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[recluse]

Pretty girl. I just caught a mature female A. hentzi at work a couple of weeks ago. I usually only find males wandering but she was waiting at the front door for me.

 

[Bugmom]

Newest addition to my spider family. Was called to rescue this one from inside my aunt's house!

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[Legion09]

Very awesome! I live in the heart of T country for chalcodes and I still can't find one wild..lol (being in the middle of an urban developed environment doesn't help though...lol)

I still got me a pretty A. chalcodes from Ken though. A voracious eater!

 

[Bugmom]

Very awesome! I live in the heart of T country for chalcodes and I still can't find one wild..lol (being in the middle of an urban developed environment doesn't help though...lol)

I still got me a pretty A. chalcodes from Ken though. A voracious eater!

Oh my big one never turns down a meal, except for when she was in premolt. The new one snatched that meal worm about a minute after I put it in there. Poor thing's abdomen isn't very big. It drank for a loooong time when I gave it water right after I captured it. I think that's why it was in my aunt's house - looking for water.

 

[squeaky10199]

:biggrin:These jet black legs are sexy!!!:biggrin: (hope thats not innappropriate on here!!)

 

[Bugmom]

Nom nom nom!
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[Bugmom]

Big Girl, whom we've (by we I mean myself and others on here) have decided is an Aphonopelma hentzi.




My new Brachypelma vagans juvie, Steve. (Yes... Spider Steve.) I don't know if this is a male, but well, it's not like spiders have ears anyway. This is the least docile T I have so far. He kicks hairs if I so much as look at him. Put into box at Petco? Kick hairs. Try to transfer from box to enclosure? Kick, kick. Open lid to give him a cricket? Kick. Jerk.

 

[Bugmom]

And my Aphonopelma hentzi juvie, Little One.




This is how to herd a T back into a Kritter Keeper

 

[Bugmom]

Last but not least, the hardest of all my T's to photograph, is Charlie the L. parahybana sling.

I've got like, 100 pictures of just her butt lol


Next to a Q-tip for size comparison.

 

[Storm76]

Insanely tiny sling Little cutiepie!

 

[Smeagol57]

I have an LP named Charlie too! Just about 3 inches and now in premolt! LPs are my favorite. This is her!

 

[Formerphobe]

Love the hentzi!

 

[Bugmom]

Insanely tiny sling Little cutiepie!

I know! She is so dinky! She was smaller when I got her, which is kinda crazy to think about. She's molted once, and I keep expecting another molt, but nooooo, she's holding out on me. She looks a bit too plump to feed again, although I'm sure she'd eat if I offered.

I give her mini mealworms, and I love watching her take them down. Is mighty predator! .... in miniature form lol.

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Yay! I like you! lol

I have an LP named Charlie too! Just about 3 inches and now in premolt! LPs are my favorite. This is her!

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[Smeagol57]

=P I actually have 3, three inch LPs! And one tiny nhandu chromatus. 2 females and 1 male LP.

 

[Bugmom]

Molt day for Charlie, and feeding day for the rest of the spider herd:




Big Girl wasn't sure at first if she wanted to eat the worm (her first time being fed one), but she was positive she didn't want it going anywhere while she decided!


B. vagans juvie, Spider Steve. First time eating since I got it last weekend.

 

[Bugmom]

New Acanthoscurria geniculata, unsexed. I'm a horrible judge of size so I included a size comparison, courtesy of Bic :laugh: This is the hair-flickingest, unfriendliest, pain-in-the-buttest spider I've got so far. Hoping it'll calm down once it's settled in here.

 

[Storm76]

Mine is the same way...hair-flicking little monster that attacks anything entering her enclosure. Funny enough, after I had her rehoused, she seems to resort to hair-flicking only now - didn't get an attack from her ever since then.