Heteropoda sp. "Giant Chinese Crab Spider"

[moricollins]

New addition:

Man, these things are fast.

Mori

 

[Scolopendra55]

Sweeeeet!!!

 

[dirtborder4life]

Spidey

Nice looking specimen you have there.Whats the legspan?

 

[moricollins]

Hm, that's a good question, about 3-4" all spread out I woudl guess

here's a ventral shot of one of the two specimens I have (anyone know how to sex these?)

Mori

 

[P. Novak]

I dont know how to sex em, but that is one awesome spider!

 

[Jmadson13]

My guess would be female. Your best bet is to talk to Stefan and Steven here on the boards. They're both very savy with ctenids.

 

[Natco]

That is beutiful.

 

[Marc_C]

I am glad that you are liking them Mori

 

[moricollins]

Marc, i am LOVING them

thanks

 

[jwasted]

those look cool! are they aggresive!

 

[moricollins]

aggressive? I don't understand the meaning of the word as it relates to inverts.

If your question is: do they eat voraciously? then the answer in my limited experience is yes.

 

[CedrikG]

Very very nice looking spider Mori Where's mine ?

 

[Stefan2209]

My guess would be female. Your best bet is to talk to Stefan and Steven here on the boards. They're both very savy with ctenids.

Hi,

thanks for that compliment!

I get along with ctenids, quite ok. However that particular spider seems to belong to the family of Sparassidae, not Ctenidae, so you better ask the User "Gordon", who´s more knowledgeable about giant-crab spiders than i am.

Nevertheless, it´d definitely surprise me if that spider would proof to be anything else than a female...

Greetings,

Stefan

 

[topacelot]

they're so pretty...good luck with them sweetie

 

[moricollins]

Two moults later:

Mori

 

[Stylopidae]

Woah! the first pics don't do it justice

 

[prankster705]

What a cutie. The last picture (eyes) was like the best.

 

[jwasted]

Very nice Spider.

 

[Beardo]

That is one intimidating arachnid! Very nice Mori!

 

[moricollins]

They're not so much intimidating as they are incredibly incredibly fast. I spent 45 minutes catching one that got loose in my spider room :wall: