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P.o. # 2 rehousing goes smoothly
Hey y'all, Had much work to do today but the air went out last night
:wall:. The apt is very hot and I couldn't sleep so gonna do that tomorrow. They'll be here to fix it sometime after lunch, thank God.
I decided to go ahead with the rehousing of P.o.# 2, along with other t related maintenance this morning. I've now moved it from it's 3.75"x 2.5" cube into a cylindrical 6" x 4" 1 liter container.
I brought the two enclosures out into an open area in short bermudagrass in the front yard. I opened the cube and pulled on the piece of bark at the top of the burrow. Sure enough, the little one rapidly exited the burrow, ran up the enclosure wall, across my hand to the back of my arm, then onto my shoulder before I could blink. I put my right hand up to my shoulder to goad it back down. The spider ran back down the back of my arm, then jumped into the grass and tucked itself firmly in a ball between clumps of thatch at the base. I parted the short grass, prodding it back onto my hand. It jumped again, burrowing into the grass. Finally, with third time charm it sat in my hand momentarily before leaping into the new enclosure.
Briefly admiring it on my hand in the sunlight, I was amazed by the intricate patterning of the opisthosoma, the reddish hairs, and noted that the prosoma now has a faint greenish tinge. The colors definitely show better in natural sunlight as opposed to the dim lighting of the t room or led flashlight. I again estimate the dls as slightly over 2.5". This is one BEAUTIFUL sp!......and are they fast in more than one way!
Hey y'all, Had much work to do today but the air went out last night
:wall:. The apt is very hot and I couldn't sleep so gonna do that tomorrow. They'll be here to fix it sometime after lunch, thank God. I decided to go ahead with the rehousing of P.o.# 2, along with other t related maintenance this morning. I've now moved it from it's 3.75"x 2.5" cube into a cylindrical 6" x 4" 1 liter container.
I brought the two enclosures out into an open area in short bermudagrass in the front yard. I opened the cube and pulled on the piece of bark at the top of the burrow. Sure enough, the little one rapidly exited the burrow, ran up the enclosure wall, across my hand to the back of my arm, then onto my shoulder before I could blink. I put my right hand up to my shoulder to goad it back down. The spider ran back down the back of my arm, then jumped into the grass and tucked itself firmly in a ball between clumps of thatch at the base. I parted the short grass, prodding it back onto my hand. It jumped again, burrowing into the grass. Finally, with third time charm it sat in my hand momentarily before leaping into the new enclosure.
Briefly admiring it on my hand in the sunlight, I was amazed by the intricate patterning of the opisthosoma, the reddish hairs, and noted that the prosoma now has a faint greenish tinge. The colors definitely show better in natural sunlight as opposed to the dim lighting of the t room or led flashlight. I again estimate the dls as slightly over 2.5". This is one BEAUTIFUL sp!......and
are they fast in more than one way! 
