I have recently bought a Cyriopagopus paganus (Thai Tiger), it is only mid sized currently, & when it arrived (via special mail) it looked healthy & although slightly sluggish (due to the cold weather no doubt), otheriwse okay.
I have it in a decent sized tank, roughly 40% full of substrate, with a water dish & a large roll of sturdy bark which is 70% buried into the substrate with only the top poking through, giving a good cover. I have the temp. set around 20 Deg.C & the humidity at around 80-90%...
The Cyriopagopus paganus has made its home happily beneath the bark shelter, with a few obvious new holes it has escavated by itself. The one lone cricket I placed into the tank has vanished, so I assume it has eaten it okay!! The Cyriopagopus has clearly been actively webbing in its underground lair also!!
My only question for now is how openly active is this species? In the 5 days I have owned it I have only seen it out of its shelter just once (this was around 2am in the morning as I was getting in from a friends & I poked my head round the door to check it was okay re: temp & humidity)...
Since then I have only glimpsed views of this species down one of the holes, its clearly settled & active underground, but it hasn't appeared to have surfaced now in 3 days? Is this usual behaviour for this species? I really dont want to disturb it to check its okay basically if this is usual behaviour!! I'm quite happy to leave it to 'settle in', so to speak...
Any info. on this species would be gratefully recieved as I have been unable to find a great deal of information in any books I have or online...
Many thanks, Ja.
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N.B. - I have used the latin name that the animal was advertised under, although searching similar threads on here, some believe this sp. to be a Haplopelma aureopilosum (Thai Black) ~ the pics on here do look very similar to the T. that I have just recieved!! Although the markings on the back of mine seem finer & more clearly white in appearance! Also, the black area of carapice (have I spelt that right) looks a much deeper, almost glossy black!!
I have a photo, but having problems uploading it ~ will try again later...
Cheers once again folks!! Ja!
I have it in a decent sized tank, roughly 40% full of substrate, with a water dish & a large roll of sturdy bark which is 70% buried into the substrate with only the top poking through, giving a good cover. I have the temp. set around 20 Deg.C & the humidity at around 80-90%...
The Cyriopagopus paganus has made its home happily beneath the bark shelter, with a few obvious new holes it has escavated by itself. The one lone cricket I placed into the tank has vanished, so I assume it has eaten it okay!! The Cyriopagopus has clearly been actively webbing in its underground lair also!!
My only question for now is how openly active is this species? In the 5 days I have owned it I have only seen it out of its shelter just once (this was around 2am in the morning as I was getting in from a friends & I poked my head round the door to check it was okay re: temp & humidity)...
Since then I have only glimpsed views of this species down one of the holes, its clearly settled & active underground, but it hasn't appeared to have surfaced now in 3 days? Is this usual behaviour for this species? I really dont want to disturb it to check its okay basically if this is usual behaviour!! I'm quite happy to leave it to 'settle in', so to speak...
Any info. on this species would be gratefully recieved as I have been unable to find a great deal of information in any books I have or online...
Many thanks, Ja.
---------- Post added at 01:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:25 PM ----------
N.B. - I have used the latin name that the animal was advertised under, although searching similar threads on here, some believe this sp. to be a Haplopelma aureopilosum (Thai Black) ~ the pics on here do look very similar to the T. that I have just recieved!! Although the markings on the back of mine seem finer & more clearly white in appearance! Also, the black area of carapice (have I spelt that right) looks a much deeper, almost glossy black!!
I have a photo, but having problems uploading it ~ will try again later...
Cheers once again folks!! Ja!
