Ice Cold Milk Picture Thread

[Ice Cold Milk]

Acanthoscurria geniculata, Avicularia versicolor

My big female Acanthoscurria geniculata molted a couple weeks ago---
decided to take her out for some pictures while her abdomen is still flawless (going to mate her soon).

Also 2 of my versicolor females just molted--- here's one of them.

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

I don't keep many birdeaters, so this girl's one of my largest terrestrials---
figure i may as well post a pic of me holding her for size comparison.

Her leg-span is 18.5-19.5cm (just shy of 8"). My hand may make her appear small, cuz i'm a pretty big guy...

I really like this spider (always have a special place in my heart for this species, it was the first species I kept years ago).

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[Ice Cold Milk]

Great pics . always amazing..
how about sharing those lighting techniques

Since this picture i have upgraded the setup, it is more functional for me now---

but this picture should give you the general sense of what i use. High wattage lighting (1000+ watts), and a tripod for small f-stops with long shutter times.

I never use flash anymore. too difficult to get nice color balance with it. (i can't afford nice external flash setups).

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Haplopelma albostriatum & Grammostola porteri

Giving this female H. albostriatum a photo-op before she gets mated...
and throwing in the G. porteri (i'm not going to argue the ID, so let it go) since she needed to be done as well.

Please forgive me for mimicking another ab.com member's style with borders

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[No One]

thanks for the tips .
your setup looks really nice. I think i must try something like that..
Nice h.albostriatum, hopefully she doesn't decide to eat the male

 

[fartkowski]

Nice shots Matt

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Euathlus sp. "Red" / Chile Flame

Thanks for the kind words, guys!

Here's a re-do of something i've already posted...I feel it's necessary to repost this species because for one, it's a fresh-molted specimen, and also have the new camera which has given me better pics!

Euathlus sp. "Red" (Chile Flame) female.

 

[No One]

She's looking very Nice . How big is she now..
Mine are still tiny, but the one just molted and is starting to show a little bit of red .

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

She's looking very Nice . How big is she now..
Mine are still tiny, but the one just molted and is starting to show a little bit of red .

She's about 8-9cm (3.5") legspan now i think?

Here's some new ones--
Harpactira hamiltoni (Gauteng Province)
and an unidentified Harpactira species from somewhere in South Africa, unfortunately the owner can not tell me where it's from (it was sold to him as a king baboon...some dolt sold these as babies to pet stores all over town, saying they were Kings.. )

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Grammostola aureostriata

Some post-coital imagery---

This smaller female G. aureostriata just had a long mating session.
She is 2 weeks post-molt. Her furrow is still quite swollen at the time
of the photo, and upon closer inspection you may see that her genital opening
may be a bit mal-formed this time!

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

more G. aureostriata

Some more Grammostola aureostriata / Chaco Golden Knee

adult female

 

[Neuroticax]

Very cool!

 

[BCscorp]

Really nice pictures,,Thank you for sharing!

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Lasiodora klugi egg sac

A long long time ago (february/march) I mated some L. klugi's for some friends... didn't expect anything as the female wasn't freshly molted. well... October 1st she laid a sac and today we opened it (day 28) to reveal what appear to be a small number of healthy nymphs .

Probably one of the largest egg sacs I've ever seen, about 8cm at its widest point (it was slightly oblong). Egg sac picture is on a grown man's hand, i think he's a member here, not sure!! And also pic of female, i'd say she's nearing 18cm legspan?? hard to remember... and another pic with the contents before we sorted them and put them into the incubator.

I guess the lesson to be learned is not to write off egg sac production, even when the breeding conditions weren't perfect, and the production wasn't timely!

 

[fartkowski]

Holy crap, that's a huge egg sack.
Did you get a count on how many were in there

 

[Apophis]

Dang, that's quite a few klugi's!
Good luck with 'em!

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

There's a rough estimate of about 1200 actual eggs-with-legs, about 10-20% of the eggs haven't hatched. i'd say a VERY conservative estimate would be 900 eggs with legs.

We separated them into individual tubs, like talkenlate's incubation method, so i will probably be able to post some pics soon where the eggs are countable.

i'm pretty lucky, i am being given a portion of the egg sac for helping breed and raise these babies (i didn't own the mother or father).

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Brachypelma vagans

Not the best picture- i try never to disturb T's makin sacs or scorps giving birth--

anyway this fits in with the whole "don't lose hope" on egg sac thing-
This female was mated back in February of last year as well i believe. I had given up on her since she was not fat and no egg sac had been produced quickly. Surprisingly, she laid a very small eggsac the other day. Unfortunately, it wasn't folded very well, and i am betting it will be dried out by the time I pull it.
Thing that is interesting is that I mated her in August '07 and she produced a sac in October '07, then she molted and i mated her in Feb '08, and she waited until October AGAIN to lay a sac. I think she is staying on a 'cycle'.

Also thinkin' i'll throw in a pic of a freshly molted C. marshalli...just for fun.

So here she is:

 

[Neuroticax]

Very nice. :worship:

 

[Ice Cold Milk]

Poecilotheria fasciata, Holothele incei, Uroplectes olivaceous, N. cinerea

Here's a general sample of some stuff,
P. fasciata adult female (pics of her brood coming soon)
Holothele incei (eating voraciously since she was mated),
Uroplectes olivaceous (local South African scorpion),
and figured i'd get a pic of a lobster roach

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