Feeling blue!

[MizM]

My little gigas surprised me with a visit during cleaning/feeding time. Haven't seen this little bugger for MONTHS!

 

[Mattyb]

Wow, she is beautiful. :clap:



-Mattyb

 

[David Burns]

I have a feeling it's not a Hysterocates gigas. So what kind of gigas is it? Sort of looks like an A.seemani to me.

 

[Philth]

:? :? :? :?

 

[Brian S]

Very nice Ter!!

 

[MrDeranged]

Terri,

There's no way that that's a H. gigas....

 

[metallica]

are that urticating hairs i see?? A. seemani blue form?

 

[David Burns]

I'm thinking it's not a T.gigas either.

 

[jbrd]

regardless what she is nice T.

 

[MizM]

Sold to me as H. gigas... I believe I got her from Señor Ocho at the Pomona IRBA show. She BETTER be a gigas, or she's going to need an attitude adjustment!

 

[Deschain]

Are those hairs pink or is that the pic? She doesn't look like any H.gigas I've ever seen, I'll say that, but I won't guess what species she is. It's kinda late, so it might just be me, but she looks like a New World T. :?

She's feisty though, and that alone makes her a cool T.

 

[bugsnstuff]

that is definitely a NW spider.

probably Hommeoma sp. 'blue' or as Eddy says a seemani blue form, although i have never seen one as blue as that one

 

[metallica]

that is definitely a NW spider.

probably Hommeoma sp. 'blue' or as Eddy says a seemani blue form, although i have never seen one as blue as that one

i don't see the typical "mirror" of urticating hairs that hommeoma....

 

[bugsnstuff]

me neither, but the pic is a bit blurry and it's a pic, lol

 

[Greg Wolfe]

Blue phase...

Wow Ter! That IS blue! YIKES!! :}
Umm... Ter? She's not crawling into the kitchen sink is she??
Greg

 

[MizM]

Well, she's still quite small, we will just have to wait a few molts and see if the blue does fade to brown. She really doesn't have any leg striping, and her tummy is gigas pinkish rather than seemani pinkish. And, she lives at the BOTTOM of the dirt, which is also gigas-ish.

Greg, she wanted to help me do the dishes!!

 

[Arachnomaniak]

It's always fun when a T makes a surprise appearance! Especially when the camera is handy. If you see it out again you'll have to try and get a more clear pic so we can have a better look!

 

[MizM]

It's always fun when a T makes a surprise appearance! Especially when the camera is handy. If you see it out again you'll have to try and get a more clear pic so we can have a better look!

COULDN'T wait!! Looking at that last pic, I myself was beginning to wonder! And, with the handy, dandy T poker, I nudged her little butt out again. And wouldn't ya know it, she's got aphonopelmitis! I'd only caught fleeting glimpses of the little brown sling I brought home, and all exuvia was thoroughly munched before being kicked out of the hole in the dirt. This is the first I've seen of her whole entire self since I've had her!! NOW I NEED A GIGAS!!! Wahhhhhhh!

 

[David Burns]

Nice A.seemani though. Sorry you didn't get what you bought!

All my seemanis live in burrows.

 

[metallica]

although i have never seen one as blue as that one

last weekend there was a reptile show here in Holland, i saw seemanni there just as blue! (was tempted to buy some myself..... but i allready had a box full of adult and subadult smithi and auratum ) Be glad Terri, this is far better then any rustspider from Africa