Species Grammostola grossa

[Cpt.nemO]

A little more detail

very doubtful. Any ways she has a black carapace and some places where the carapace skin looks kinda sheded (but its not obviously) the colour changes to a greyish / whitish, so it even might be the that the carapace in future gains a lighter colouring. Sh has these musturd coloured stripes as u all can see, se has the front legs larger than the back legs. Her abdomen is black with a velvet texture and red hairs comming out of (not much) like a grammostola should have.

I hope this helps you all. And BTW she is positioned in the vase just waiting for the fourth cricket to crawl along. I think she would eat her shelf to death so i won't give her another cricket.

Anyone else has an educated estimate ?

 

[shogun804]

still does not change my opinion, sorry i cant be more exact on what specie it is but then again im not sure anyone here could be...all i can say is IMO that is not a grammostola. flash or not still looks the same.

 

[BlkCat]

And BTW she is positioned in the vase just waiting for the fourth cricket to crawl along. I think she would eat her shelf to death so i won't give her another cricket.

Why not give her another? My 5 inch A. seemani will eat 6 and my 3 inch B. smithi will eat 5. The smithi is a glutton though. She has to shovel eveything into her mouth... :}
Do u feed more than once a week?

 

[Cpt.nemO]

Yep, I feed her everyday. I didn't feed her more crickets because i was affraid she might burst do u think something like that could happen or should i feed her with as much cricket as possible like 5 - 6 a day. ?? (obviously only if she wants but at least 4 a day).

shes beautiful, grammostola or not

 

[Hirose]

The real G. grossa

Hello,
reading the subject sent by cpt.nemo and confirmed by Roberto Melo I could realize they are making a mistake, the related spider is, actually, a Vitallius sp. that has been changed by the real G. grossa that can be seen in the picture below. It is important to say the identification as G. grossa was correct, but cpt.nemo and Roberto Melo seemed to be a little confused. Thanks for the chance of clarifying the messing
PS. unfortunatelly, I could not post the picture of the related spider due to its size, but everybody can it at the below referred website:
http://www.myreef.hpg.ig.com.br/realgrossa.jpg

 

[Cpt.nemO]

I didn't quite understand , How can I be correct and mistaken by the identification. Is it a vitalius ??? If so what sp. any ideas ???

Any more info on this T, like how large will it get, and also , should i feed her as much crickets as she can take or, is there a danger that she will it herself to death e.g. Burst ??? I am thinking of giving her a white "lab rat" .. do you guys think its to much considering se has been eating 3 crickets a day for the past days ????

Plz more info will be more than welcome, and specially comming from possible professionals.

 

[Deschain]

Any more info on this T, like how large will it get, and also , should i feed her as much crickets as she can take or, is there a danger that she will it herself to death e.g. Burst ??? I am thinking of giving her a white "lab rat" .. do you guys think its to much considering se has been eating 3 crickets a day for the past days ????

Plz more info will be more than welcome, and specially comming from possible professionals.

You can give her as many crickets as she will eat, without fear of her bursting. They've been around alot longer than we have, and know when to stop eating. Just make sure to remove any uneaten prey promptly.

As far as the "lab rat"...in my opinion, absolutely not. Right now she has a nice size abdomen, and even a pinkie mouse would be at worst ignored, at best mostly uneaten. And trust me, you don't want to pick up the remains of a half eaten pinkie.

Anything bigger than a hopper, for any T is just asking for trouble I.M.O. Small mice are very capable of inflicting major damage, including death, and I'm just not willing to take the chance.

If you want a good feeding show, I would suggest a roach. The hands down best feeding I've watched.

 

[Cpt.nemO]

And what about lizards ?? like those nocturnal light coloured lizards that eat smaller insects ?? I i were to give anything larger than a roch to my T i would use tweesers to make sure no damage would be inflicted to her.

Any ways she already ate two crickets today i'm gona give her third one right now and later on the forth and so on.

 

[BlkCat]

I have read that prekilled anoles were good food items. I figure that if u wait a few days to a week without feeding her then 1 larger prey item would be sufficant. Instead of the tedious process of dropping crix in there every few hours. About the burst thing... I think humans are the only ones dumb enough to eat til they vomit.

 

[Deschain]

And what about lizards ?? like those nocturnal light coloured lizards that eat smaller insects ?? I i were to give anything larger than a roch to my T i would use tweesers to make sure no damage would be inflicted to her.

Any ways she already ate two crickets today i'm gona give her third one right now and later on the forth and so on.

I like to give my arboreals anoles. I've never seen my Pokies stalk their tanks like they do for one of those little green beans. My regalis was hunting, everytime I looked at her, for two days straight.
My H.gigas also enjoys them. It's the only prey item she eats at regular speed. Everything else she eats in slow motion. But I kinda have to "chase" the anole towards her burrow, and at 4 or 5 bucks a pop locally, that gets expensive. And to be honest, the roaches are a better show.

 

[JohnxII]

I am not real familiar with the Grammostola Genus but all of them that I know of do have the mirror, but that is a good question? But one thing I can say for sure is yes the grossa does have the mirror patch...

I can't see the "Real Grossa" pic posted by Hirose. But the taxonomically-correct G. grossa has the unmistakable trademark apple-shaped mirror patch, shown in Bearskin's picture.

 

[Cpt.nemO]

what are anoles ??? BTW yesterday she ate 8 or 9 crix (lost the count)

 

[Deschain]

what are anoles ??? BTW yesterday she ate 8 or 9 crix (lost the count)

Little green lizards.

 

[Cpt.nemO]

ok thanks , but the ones we have here is a light brown colour and underneath its white. The larger ones can get up to 15 cm , do you think se might eat one of those ?? at least medium sized (10 cm).

 

[BlkCat]

Anoles:
http://images.google.com/images?q="anoles"&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=ii&oi=imagest

 

[Cpt.nemO]

Here we go, a few pics of the anole i was talkin' about. i already offered her but the T refused it. I will try again tomorrow.

Enjoy..

 

[Randolph XX()]

this is a gecko, boy!

 

[Cpt.nemO]

and ?? wil my T eat it with the enthusiasm all of yours do when you feed an anole ?? cheers.

 

[Bearskin10]

What is your obsession with feeding this thing? You have already feed it who knows how many crickets, I would suggest just letting it be for awhile... most of us tarantula keepers only feed about once a week, not dropping crickets in there every hour on the hour???

 

[Cpt.nemO]

my obsession with it is that i kept one unique selenocosmia but in the last 3 - 4 months that i owned her i saw her eat something like once or twice, i was pissed i didn't have the action. Well now i have a T that gives me a lot of action. I want to film with two different cams from different angles in macro the capturing and feeding of a gecko and a small mouse. I want to make my own documentary and being able to film with extreme high quality macro. I mean I bet everyone here would download the movie i made if I placed a link in the thread. If all goes well i will do so but first i need some suggestions. She is going through the 3 day with no food. How much longer before i can feed the mouse to her ??

P.S. I am not weorried in picking up the remains. However i am afraid that some contamination may build up at the area where the mouse was eaten.

Thanks for the input.

Any suggestion on how i might be able to film some decent footages ??