+1. The African savanahs have some serious wet seasons.
That makes sense, to prevent flooding. I hadn't thought of that.
Exactly right. Last night we had 3 serious thunder storms in the space of 6 hours, so their turrets would have helped with the flooding.
+1. Some of my young violaceopes have a whole system of elevated tubes/tunnels. They dig and spin, and blend the substrate in with the silk. It's pretty neat. Very ambitious spiders. As they get older, they seem to settle for simpler arrangements.
my c.darlingi has like 4 different tunnel openings that its been opening and closing up the past few days.. is this a sign of premolt? Or is it just messin with me? Hehe
The only time I ever had to chase greased orange lightening was when I unpacked my very first OBT. I chased that tiny speck of spider through two rooms before finally corralling him! Ever after, and with all subsequent OBTs, they just huddle in a corner and I catch cup them out to wherever they need to be.
They will put their legs right at the opening when hungry, or even come out entirely too, at least my marshalli does when its hungry. It initially inspected the entire deli cup, but now I don't think it does.
My Ceratogyrus adults (marshalli and darlingi) are out when they're hungry, and inside when molt/premolt.
All of mine come out and stroll around occasionally. Well most of my spiders do, generally reclusive ones included. I think they key to having regularly visible spiders is housing them in good enclosures that make them feel secure.
I definitely agree with this. And the less mucking around you do with them, the happier they will be and the more often you will see them.
My impression is that w/all horned baboons, the females have the largest horns. If there's a species that's otherwise, that's a new one for me.