H. gigas underwater and few others :)

[xgrafcorex]

thanks for posting that. i'm always fascinated to see them go underwater (or on the surface). i've never tried that with any of my tarantulas..but not sure any of them would really care to go for a swim.

in that first snake picture...is that your corn snakes blood? or the rat?

 

[Tim St.]

[/QUOTE]i'm not actually sure if tarantulas *can* drown, actually. depends on definition, heh. ah, by the definition "to suffocate by immersion in water" they can, as suffocation only means to deprive of oxygen. i thought drowning might have something to do with getting water in lungs =P[/QUOTE]

If you fish a bug out of a swimming pool, put it in direct sunlight on a hot day nine times outta ten it will come back to life, i do this alot when iam at a pool, iv seen spiders, mantis,dragonflies and many other bugs do this, people think iam weird for doing it, but its really neat watching them reanimate themselfs slowly back to life.

The H.Gigas is deff on my wish list, whos are some really cool pics you have there!.

 

[Kropa83]

Unfortunatelly this is snakes blood. This rat was very strong beast. He bites snake in a head but he was eated anyway :? . It was the last rat meal

 

[Keith Richard]

Hi everyone! This is my firsth post here. Sorry if my english is not correct but I'm not a native speaker :8o anyway I decided to change a backgrount in my H.gigas terrarium. When I did it I get great idea. I remember myself that this spider can swim so I put in his terra a jar with water. When I let H.gigas in to the terrarium she did not start to dig like she usually do but she walked around and when she found jar she plunged under water. She was 35 minutes under water !! I was great chance to make interesting pictures.


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Fascinating stuff, and well documented. I think I recall Bill (Conipto) telling me of his special set up for H. crassipes, and how the spider would wade into the water fishing.

 

[Drachenjager]

Unfortunatelly this is snakes blood. This rat was very strong beast. He bites snake in a head but he was eated anyway :? . It was the last rat meal

what??????????

 

[Becky]

H. gigas suddenly jumps up my wishlist lol Brill pics!

Do slings swim aswell or only adults?

 

[NBond1986]

WOW......i am amazed.

 

[Duc de Blangis]

while fraternizing at a poolside bar at a resort in cameroon i observed this. i couldn't tell if it was gigas or crassipes.

 

[Brando]

while fraternizing at a poolside bar at a resort in cameroon i observed this. i couldn't tell if it was gigas or crassipes.

LOL, nice.