User curtisgiganteus Tarantula Pictures

curtisgiganteus

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Haha that's hilarious! Looks like it put on a little size too. Maybe like 1/1,000 of an inch!
Here was her trap door before the rehouse. I moved her into something with a little more substrate that is hopefully large enough to be her adult enclosure
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New enclosure
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campj

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Do you even sleep? 😂 Awesome picture, kind of looks like an action shot with the edges blurred like that.

I sound like a broken record, but if the one I've got grows up into a strapping young lad (instead of a strapping young lass) and you are interested in breeding these, I'll hit you up. Maybe do a 50/50?
 

curtisgiganteus

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Do you even sleep? 😂 Awesome picture, kind of looks like an action shot with the edges blurred like that.

I sound like a broken record, but if the one I've got grows up into a strapping young lad (instead of a strapping young lass) and you are interested in breeding these, I'll hit you up. Maybe do a 50/50?
I get home from work around 10pm lol and if I’m not working OT I have three days off (four 10s) so I take ALOT of pictures and I post them when I have time.

I’m totally down for a breeding loan bro. I want her to molt a couple more times so she can put a little more size on, but once she hits that 3.5-4” mark, for sure!
 

curtisgiganteus

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Got these from a guy giving away his collection due to a no pets rule at his new place.

5”/3”H mac and S cal
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3” H Mac in her digs
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4” Female Pamphobeteus sp Machala
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6” Female Psalmopoeus cambridgei
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3.5” Unsexed Pelinobius muticus
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And my petsmart rescue

2” female Avicularia avicularia - M1
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curtisgiganteus

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Do you even sleep? 😂 Awesome picture, kind of looks like an action shot with the edges blurred like that.

I sound like a broken record, but if the one I've got grows up into a strapping young lad (instead of a strapping young lass) and you are interested in breeding these, I'll hit you up. Maybe do a 50/50?
She built her burrow and trap door
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curtisgiganteus

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Rehoused the Phormingochylus sp Akcaya that molted a few weeks back. I’m thinking it’s a boy which has me excited lol
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Suspected female Phormingochylus pennelhewlettorum
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Female Poecilotheria formosa
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Suspected female Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli #1
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Suspected female Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli #2
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Suspected male Poecilotheria tigrinawesseli #3
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P. Ornata molt
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H himalayana molt
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A. Avic M4 (ex. Azuraklaasi) rehouse
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T seladonia pics
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O sp Valhalla molt 26FC89B0-7F48-48AB-8510-69C22603E3F6.jpeg

P smithi molt
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klawfran3

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Here was her trap door before the rehouse. I moved her into something with a little more substrate that is hopefully large enough to be her adult enclosure
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New enclosure
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Is there a certain size where they start to build trapdoors? It looks like adults will build a new one after a rehouse to a new place, at least according to your photos lol. Curious as to if it's always build one since a sling or it started as an adult
 

curtisgiganteus

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Is there a certain size where they start to build trapdoors? It looks like adults will build a new one after a rehouse to a new place, at least according to your photos lol. Curious as to if it's always build one since a sling or it started as an adult
I honestly don’t know. I recieved this female at her current size and have no prior experience with I mira. With that being said, my Ornithoctoninae sp Malthai all built trap doors around the .5” mark. I’ll be rehousing them since they have all molted to around 1” so we will see if the trap door building starts after their rehouse.
 
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0.1 Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica 6”
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0.1 Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica 4.5”
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1.0 Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica 4.5”
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0.1 Poecilotheria fasciata 6”
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0.1 Poecilotheria ornata 7”
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0.0.3 Ornithoctoninae sp Vietnam Silver (the one pictured has mites, all the rest of the Ts from this order are fine. Looking into how to rid this sling of them)
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0.0.3 Ornithoctoninae sp Ho Chi Minh (I believe GCF)
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0.0.3 Ornithoctoninae sp Phan Cay Red 2.5” (These guys are unrelated to the other 0.0.3 I have and are several molts ahead as well. Let hope the smaller male I have lines up with the suspected 0.2 from this trio)
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0.1 Poecilotheria smithi 6” 094FE1B7-EDA7-4B73-9193-0BD410DAF997.jpeg

0.0.2 Chilobrachys sp Tropical Blue
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7” Ornata with her new round
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6” Female Poecilotheria sp Highalnd (Possibly gravid; Paired 12/01/22)
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3” Female Ornithoctoninae sp Surigao Del Sur
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curtisgiganteus

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I will never get over that Disco Pokie Pose. Absolutely amazing.
They are one of my favorite Genus’s. I am only missing Striata now lol I have the Miranda coming tomorrow 🥳 I’m stoked to be able to say I have the entire genus soon
 
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