Everything Phormictopus

[Goopyguy56]

Depends where you go through! What would you be willing to pay for one?

Depends on how mad I want to make my wife! Also, how good looking the t is

 

[Daniel S]

X. cf immanis 1” on 03arachnids.com preimport list might interest you

 

[Goopyguy56]

Not bad price imo. It hasn't been long since my last order so I have to hold off for a while. Otherwise my wife will kill me

 

[Smotzer]

Depends where you go through! What would you be willing to pay for one?

When xenesthis don't cost a small fortune, I will get some. As for pamphos, when one of the cool ones aren't priced through the roof I will get one of those. Phormictopus for now

I feel like both these have gone up quite a bit

 

[Goopyguy56]

Some of the more rare ones are way more than I am willing to pay.

 

[Goopyguy56]

Thanks for the information guys. They do get pretty sizable based of what y’all say. @Colorado Ts is slowly making me want to get into this genus and turn over to the terrestrial “dark side” away from my almost pure arboreal collection

Yeah, I want more arboreals. Out of my 38 t's, only 4 are arboreals.

 

[Colorado Ts]

Moving Day

I finally had time and materials to rehouse all 8 of my Phormictopus sp southern hispaniola slings.



The spiders have grown so much, in their AMAC boxes, that during feeding they acted as if they had no where to retreat and started throwing threat displays and flicking hairs.



Most of the spiders transferred easily into their new home, others took it kind of hard and did not move easily.



It took about 45 minutes to move all the spiders into their new enclosures. Because these spiders grow so large, on average, these will be intermediate enclosures. They’ll be in these enclosures until they are about 6”+/-, then they’ll be moved into larger enclosures as they approach their full size of around 8”.

 

[Colorado Ts]

Phormictopus caucus Slings Moulting

My 7 P.cautus slings are going through a moult cycle. Of the 7 slings, so far 5 have moulted...2 are still refusing food and acting irritable.

This is the first moult for with this group of slings. So far, no problems with any of the moults. The slings are housed in 3.25 oz soufflé cups, on a moist coco fibre substrate. Some of the soufflé cups have a fine mist moisture condensation when I check them biweekly for feedings.

What I have noticed with this moult, is that the slings do not look appreciably larger. They've grown a little bit, but the incredible grow that I've seen and experienced with my other Phormictopus species...is not evident. The blues are much more intense with the slings that have moulted, and that is to be expected...spiders tend to look amazing right after a moult. But that expected Phormictopus growth didn't really happen with this moult.

I'm still in a process of recovering my B.lateralis roach colony, so I fed the slings the very tiniest B.dubia roaches that I had on hand...of the 5 that moulted, 3 of them were very hungry and immediately took the prey items offered. The other 2 were not ready for food, and showed no interest.

I wonder if these early moults don't produce the huge growth spurts of later moults. The slings arrived at around the 3/4” to 1” size range...and the moulted slings look to be just a tad larger. We'll see what happens in the weeks that follow.

 

[Smotzer]

Moving Day

I finally had time and materials to rehouse all 8 of my Phormictopus sp southern hispaniola slings.

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The spiders have grown so much, in their AMAC boxes, that during feeding they acted as if they had no where to retreat and started throwing threat displays and flicking hairs.

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Most of the spiders transferred easily into their new home, others took it kind of hard and did not move easily.

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It took about 45 minutes to move all the spiders into their new enclosures. Because these spiders grow so large, on average, these will be intermediate enclosures. They’ll be in these enclosures until they are about 6”+/-, then they’ll be moved into larger enclosures as they approach their full size of around 8”.

Niiice!! what are these new enclosures? dimensions?

 

[Colorado Ts]

Niiice!! what are these new enclosures? dimensions?

I ordered in the enclosures off of Amazon.com.



There are several height dimensions of this enclosure. There is a 5” height, 7” height and a 9” height. I'm using the 7” height for the Phormictopus slings. The only thing I don't like about these enclosures is there’s a sticker advertising mDesign...it’s a pain to remove, and requires acetone to get it off. But other than that, great enclosure, that is designed to be stackable.

 

[Smotzer]

I ordered in the enclosures off of Amazon.com.

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There are several height dimensions of this enclosure. There is a 5” height, 7” height and a 9” height. I'm using the 7” height for the Phormictopus slings. The only thing I don't like about these enclosures is there’s a sticker advertising mDesign...it’s a pain to remove, and requires acetone to get it off. But other than that, great enclosure, that is designed to be stackable.

Oh i just bought one of these but the 5in height one for my gbb! but the lids are so easily opened that I decided to mod it and glue magnets under the lid and on the corners to secure it so that I taratula coudnt push it open.
But I really like these containers I’ll definitely be using these again for terrestrials!
mine had the Sticker on the top and took forever to get off

 

[Colorado Ts]

Settling In



Some of the juveniles have taken the move hard and simply walled themselves off in their burrows.



For the most part the Phormictopus sp southern hispaniola juveniles have settled into their new homes. I see them often roaming their enclosures and exploring, ‘course when I pickup the enclosure they slip into their burrows.



Those that were out ate greedily and drug their prey items down into their burrows.

I’m still surprised at how quickly they went from 1” slings to their current size. Just crazy.

 

[jaw6053]

Couple of questions :

1. Are Phormictopus new worlds ?
2. Are they arboreal or terrestrial (burrowers) ?

 

[mjzheng]

Couple of questions :

1. Are Phormictopus new worlds ?
2. Are they arboreal or terrestrial (burrowers) ?

They're new world terrestrials . Many enjoy burrowing at smaller sizes

 

[Colorado Ts]

Couple of questions :

1. Are Phormictopus new worlds ?
2. Are they arboreal or terrestrial (burrowers) ?

Phormictopus species are new worlds. They are found primarily in and around the Caribbean. As a genus they are terrestrial as adults. That being said I have spoken with some breeders that state that there are some species where the slings will be very fossorial, gradually losing this tendency as they reach adulthood.

I currently have 2 species and plan on obtaining 6 more. All that I own and have researched are terrestrial.

 

[Colorado Ts]

Phormictopus cautus



Most of my P.cautus slings have moulted. Their crazy awesome feeding responses have returned.



The B.lateralis roaches in my feeding bin have been moulting & growing, consequently, I’m feeding larger roaches to these slings...they do not care at all. They are all taking down roaches nearly their own size.



I’m feeding them only once per week, until my feeder supply dwindles and I sort my breeding colony again and get some smaller roaches back into my feeder bin.

Phormictopus sp southern hispaniola

Its now been several weeks since these 8 juveniles have been rehoused into their new larger enclosures.



I’m feeding them B.dubia roaches. A couple of the juveniles were fed adult male roaches so I could thin my population a bit. Both of those juvrniles were still feeding on the males roaches the next day...that’s more than 12 hours of strait feeding.



Those slings will not fed again for several weeks, those were huge meals.

These juveniles are all settled in. A couple have sealed themselves into their burrows...I haven’t seen them for a few weeks, ever since their rehouse basically. A couple have started webbing which is very unusual for this genus.

Very cool spiders...

 

[gabrielgartner]

Very cool! I'm still waiting on a few species from the 03arachnids import though I'm starting to think I might not actually ever see those spiders

 

[Marlana]

Very cool! I'm still waiting on a few species from the 03arachnids import though I'm starting to think I might not actually ever see those spiders

I’m starting to think the same thing. And my order wasn’t a preorder. I ordered on July 5th and finally sent them an email last week. No answer. Really frustrating

 

[gabrielgartner]

I’m starting to think the same thing. And my order wasn’t a preorder. I ordered on July 5th and finally sent them an email last week. No answer. Really frustrating

I wonder if there's a way we can see who's ordered from him recently and what the status of those orders is. He has a good reputation, I can't imagine he would straight up be scamming people.

 

[Marlana]

I wonder if there's a way we can see who's ordered from him recently and what the status of those orders is. He has a good reputation, I can't imagine he would straight up be scamming people.

That’s a good idea but I’m not sure where you’d post something like that, kind of new here I ordered a few Liphistius because of their awesome 4th of July sale. He did sent an email saying orders would be late going out. But even those dates are now almost 2 weeks ago (July 14th it said for non-preorders, July 20th for pre order). Hopefully they’re just really behind