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[Akai]

I loved your picture thread and collection Hobo. I spent the last hour reading through it. It's nice to have a diary of sorts to go back to in pictures. I must say that P. antinous is stunning. I have to get one soon. I am enamored with the Pamphobeteus genus atm. These are just striking to me especially after a fresh molt. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Crysta]

yeah. It's funny 2 of the spiders i sold you, end up having moltie problems, sorry jason!

 

[Hobo]

I loved your picture thread and collection Hobo. I spent the last hour reading through it. It's nice to have a diary of sorts to go back to in pictures. I must say that P. antinous is stunning. I have to get one soon. I am enamored with the Pamphobeteus genus atm. These are just striking to me especially after a fresh molt. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, they get big and awesome. I rarely see her though.
Gald you liked the pics!

yeah. It's funny 2 of the spiders i sold you, end up having moltie problems, sorry jason!

Not your fault! Blame their faulty genetics. The sp. black I got from you is no longer in my care, though. My friend has it now. We are unsure if it has molted since we never see it after giving it that burrow.

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So new spider!
I picked this one up from a member here at a bargain price.

Yup, another P. metallica. Was hoping for a male but this one looks female ventrally... so given my history, that means it will eventually be male right?
Even if it is male, I don't think this one is breeding material. Check out that conjoined abdomen pattern it's got going. Not only the pattern, but the whole thing is misshapen to, as if there's another, parasitic tarantula abdomen right under her exo...
but she's awesome and I'm glad to have her. She also has this fancy regenerated palp.

I rehoused the now female P. metallica. Here she is in her new enclosure.

I also rehoused my A. versicolors finally. I didn't realize how big they've gotten.

They're still pretty friendly.

And my rosea doing... something.

 

[jbm150]

Beautiful shots, esp the versi. Just something about 'em when they're little tykes

 

[Hobo]

Beautiful shots, esp the versi. Just something about 'em when they're little tykes

Yeah, wish they'd grow up and stay that blue! Thanks!
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Rehoused Female P. metallica, having a meal. It's like those generic diagrams/pictures in pet care books with the animal right in the middle.

FAT G. pulchripes, also havign a meal.

The first of the C. perezmilesi have hooked out! Has it really been nearly two years already?!

And, the H. gabonensis female I've had living with a couple of males for a while has made a sac at some point, apparently!

 

[Storm76]

Awesome! Good luck with the sac!

 

[Kazaam]

Nice T's man!

 

[FoxtheLviola]

Just read through this thread. I so enjoyed seeing the chronology of your Ts and the beautiful pictures of them. Makes me want more Ts!

Also loved the feeding vid with the Star Trek music. I believe that musical score makes all fight scenes and feeding videos better.

 

[Hobo]

I'm taking back my thread!
Winter time is always slow for the tarantulas at my place. That's my excuse for not posting any pictures.

First, just a shot I took of the female P. metallica dying in a deathcurl.

P. ornata munching on something...

Newly (well, not anymore) molted C. fimbriatus having her first post molt meal...

My freak X. imannis with only one missing spinneret....

Speaking of freaks, My new P. metallica molted...

She's definitely female, according to her molt, looks ventrally female too, I guess

And not only does she retain her crazy abdomen, she still seems unable to move her now fully regenerated palp properly.

Previously, she seemed to only be able to move it up and down, and I had hoped it was just because it was still regenerating. But, like before, it seems she doesn't have full control of it, as it often drags along, often sticking to things while she tries to move somewhere else. You can see it in the above pics. She is at least able to bring it back into position when it seemingly hinders her too much.

And finally, still waiting on this one to drop. She has continued to gradually push out sub though, so I'm hoping she will eventually.

 

[nepenthes]

Beautiful T's you have their! I can only imagine how they look in person. One of these days Ill get a Poecilotheria.

 

[Storm76]

Weird with your P. met there - hopefully, in a few more molts, she'll be completely alright again. Love the "deathcurl" pic T's take so funny positions sometimes

 

[Hobo]

M. robustum finally dropped this past weekend! It looks a bit wonky, so I hope it's good and she doesn't eat it.

 

[crawltech]

nice work man!...hope it plumps up for ya!

 

[Storm76]

Good luck!

 

[Hobo]

nice work man!...hope it plumps up for ya!

Thanks man! Nice seeing you posting around again. Hope everything's well.

Good luck!

Thanks!

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Just a few more shots. When she first rolled it up:

And just this evening:

So she's still hugging it after the first week, only a couple more to go!

In other news, the largest of the GBB sac slings I've kept molted, and it's a she!

I'm pretty exited about her, as I suspected she was female after seeing what I thought was a microscopic flap in her second instar molt. Now I'm 100% sure that's what it was. There are a few others I've seen too, and hoping for a similar result.

 

[Hobo]

Some of the ones I haven't photographed in a while:

Holothele sp. Colombia, last remaining of the six I started out with (4 were male, this one ate the other one)

B. emilia, molted almost a year ago... it's still only about 1"

P. lugardi, freshly (sort of) molted, and having her first meal

And a drink from the "rain"

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And, I pulled the M. robustum sac a couple of weeks ago.

Looked alright when opened...

But an egg seemingly ruptured some time ago, and most of the eggs were gross and/or wet. there were only 30 (31 counting the one that 'sploded). Did my best at drying them off by transferring them through different coffee filters until they were dry.

Looking at them close, I could see no signs of development (as if I know what it's supposed to look like anyway...), so I thought they were bad anyway. Since I went to the trouble of slapping together a nice incubator and didn't feel like scrapping it right away, I decided to put them in there anyway. Left them there for a week and forgot about them.
Was going to chuck them out this weekend, and noticed that there were a few that hadn't become raisins. I took a flashlight to them and was plesantly surprised:

Evidentally, slow developers. Crossing my fingers and hoping they make it!

 

[Alltheworld601]

not much is cuter than a baby robustum Good luck!

 

[Storm76]

Lovely shots - haven't seen egg pictures like that so far...great!

 

[Hobo]

not much is cuter than a baby robustum Good luck!

I hope I get to see that for myself!

Lovely shots - haven't seen egg pictures like that so far...great!

Thanks. Check these out.

Did some sorting, and I think it seems that I only have three that might actually make it.
The rest have either shown no growth at all, or very clearly deformed growth that I do not see them developing into anything but deformed, horrible mutants. Let's take a look!

Here, the one on the right seemed to have gown the legs nearly parallel to each other, and the prosoma seemingly has failed to develop properly, leaving the legs to grow longer and farther apart, nearly tangling up with the other side.
Although it is difficult to see, the one on the left has fared a little better, but still is quite deformed on it's left side.

Here we see a similar situation, the two rows of legs seem to have drifted very close to each other.

I couldn't get any good pics of the regular ones, unfortunately, but they look much better than these ones. You can see the prosoma, palps and fangs. I hope they make it!

 

[MarkmD]

Brilliant pics and T's Hobo, it was good to see from old pics to new pics and the eggsac slings were very nice shots, you have an amazing collection of T's.