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[Furret]

They're all so gorgeous!

 

[Jared781]

Thanks for that. Yeah, my all time favorite spiders to keep. I only have the one Tegenaria sp. around though. Gotta catch some more this year.



I dunno, I'll try to keep out of the Canadian FS section. Crysta's been there with her tempting spider.... LOL.
But yeah, me being at the show is pending me having a lift as usual. hahah.
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N. chromatus

C. fimbriatus

And a freshly molted, still one spinneret missing, having a drink, X. immanis

NOW thats intense!... cant get enough of the fimbratus aswell!! Hes just eyeing down that fat cricket! ahaa

 

[Hobo]

Got a photo of the P. murinus!

 

[matt82]

Sounds like the P. murinus shot was a while in the waiting, I can relate to that! Beautifully coloured RCF.

 

[grayzone]

One of the H. gabonensis molted sometime too, was significantly bigger than the other two when she came out.

Here's all three. That cricket is screwed. Interestingly enough, the big female on the right (based on ventral) was the one who eventually got it.

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WOW jason.. this is a beautiful sp. More added to the ol' wishlist :unhappy: im DEFINITELY snaggin a couple if the opportunity ever presents itself.. seeing how they live communally , do the smaller ones defer to the large one?

 

[Hobo]

Ohh man, am I late...

Sounds like the P. murinus shot was a while in the waiting, I can relate to that! Beautifully coloured RCF.

Yeah. Haven't gotten a decent not-through-plastic shot of her until now. She's always down in her hide at any disturbance.

WOW jason.. this is a beautiful sp. More added to the ol' wishlist :unhappy: im DEFINITELY snaggin a couple if the opportunity ever presents itself.. seeing how they live communally , do the smaller ones defer to the large one?

From what I seen, yes.
In fact, in those shots, that one in the middle did get it first, but the one on the right came over there after another cricket found it's way there. It happened so fast, but from what I gather, the big one ran into the one in the middle on the way to get the other cricket, the middle one bolted off to the corner, and the big one ended up getting both.

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P. cancerides molted!

You can see the spermathecae from this side even!

She's huge. I am not looking forward to moving her. She's by far my meanest tarantula.

And a shot of my avic.

 

[Storm76]

Cute A. avic and those H. gaboensis I kinda growing on me with their blueish hues...how's the GBB doing?

 

[Hobo]

Cute A. avic and those H. gaboensis I kinda growing on me with their blueish hues...how's the GBB doing?

She's doing fine. She can climb and walk fine, so I've kept her in her current enclosure. She not as prey agressive as she used to be; It's probably a result of her wonky palps and legs. She is very capable of catching things though, so that's a plus. Hey deformities are only really visible when she is at rest. Her right leg I will slowly drift over her left, and her right palp will angle left as well. I don't know if others can tell, but there is something off about her chelicerae as well.

Her kids, though are doing well, and are slowly decreasing in number as they find new homes.
This one tried to crab the side of the cup, thinking it was food. Ravenous little guys.

 

[grayzone]

good to know the gbb is doing fine. That lil sling looks like he likes the camera lol.. awesome shot

 

[Protectyaaaneck]

That cancerides is gorgeous!

 

[Crysta]

Any new pics of the fluffy I sold ya ?

 

[wesker12]

Just went through all 33 pages, what a journey my friend
Thank you for your photography skills and beautiful collection!

 

[Storm76]

Great to know she's eating at least. Hopefully, those deformities will vanish with the next molt and won't cause her troubles...crossing fingers. The slings can be quite daring actually, my little one tried to bite me twice when I removed stuff from it's enclosure, just because it was in pre-molt, but nevertheless they are very quick and have quite the temper at times. Cute.

 

[Hobo]

good to know the gbb is doing fine. That lil sling looks like he likes the camera lol.. awesome shot

It'd probably try and grab it if it got any closer. These guys are crazy when they think there's something to eat crawling around.

That cancerides is gorgeous!

That she is. I preferred it when she was darker though. Oh well, the carapace more than makes up for it, I think.

Any new pics of the fluffy I sold ya ?

Yes! She is still the very seldom and picky eater, but I got her to eat a small cricket yesterday (not the one pictured. That's her new roomate).

Just went through all 33 pages, what a journey my friend
Thank you for your photography skills and beautiful collection!

Thanks. They're no DSLR camera photos, but I do try to get them doing something interesting, at least. Sort of. Haha.

Great to know she's eating at least. Hopefully, those deformities will vanish with the next molt and won't cause her troubles...crossing fingers. The slings can be quite daring actually, my little one tried to bite me twice when I removed stuff from it's enclosure, just because it was in pre-molt, but nevertheless they are very quick and have quite the temper at times. Cute.

Exactly right. Daring.
Mine are very flicky or very food agressive. Sometimes both. Most feeding times, they'll grab the morsel from the forceps and immediately turn around and flick like crazy. I'll have to get that on video sometime.

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So new addition!
Picked this fellow up at a LPS for a pretty good price, even for a male.

And I do believe he is male too. Score! looks like my female has a future partner/meal.
But we'll see what the molt says anyway. I find Nhandu to be iffy in the ventral area.

Very flicky. Very defensive. Was told by the girls working there that I must never touch it, and that they "don't trust that spider at all".
I don't blame them.
Told me they think it's male because it didn't grow so much and it was small.
"Ok."

Also, Yesterday, I found a really big bolus with some legs sticking out of it in the H. sp. colombia "communal" (There were four males that I've since given back to Mack, and two in there I didn't bother finding).
Last week's crickets were still alive in there, and It looks like it's been there a while so I decided to dig out everything and see if it was just a molt or whatever.
So I only find one spider.
One FAT, candles yellow, female spider.

D'oh!
Shouldn't have dug her up. She might be fertilized, as the males were in there for a while before I pulled them out.
Anyway, damage done, I put her in her own enclosure. Hopefully she'll lay. She's fairly small, so I don't know, she might also molt out, especially since I pretty much just dug her out, and she hasn't been eating anything.
Time will tell.

 

[BCscorp]

Hey man, hope she lays a sac anyways for you!

 

[sbullet]

Yep, saw my P. regalis doing the same thing. She'll do it with balls of dirt or boluses. She seems to like throwing them into her plant or her water dish

I watched my striata pop her head out of her vertical hide, and FRANTICALLY chuck boli/dirt with her palps and first legs. I was SO surprised and have never seen anything like it before. Real cool.

 

[maxxxieee]

Awesome photos and you should pat yourself on the back for them! Love it!

 

[Storm76]

Guess that was the "P*** off!" meaning there

 

[Hobo]

It's been a while!

C. fimbriatus molted a few weeks back.

P. antinous havign a drink

and a very unhappy MM M. robustum I just dug out in preparation for pairing this weekend.
Here he is giving their species trademark threat pose before letting me have some back leg tarantula-fu.

 

[apophysis]

Nice antinous! Very black. How is she/he?