JBM's Photo Thread

[Alltheworld601]

That nigerrimum cracked me up. That was certainly the most dramatic threat posture i've seen in a while..

 

[jbm150]

Look at that beautiful behemoth!

I'm not sure of her legspan but its gotta be 7" at least. It's her bulk though, her legs are so stout. To think she may get bigger yet!

Just magnificent Jeff!!! :biggrin:

Sorry to be such a noob, but what is she?

Haplopelma schmidti, I'd love to see what your photography could do for the species

That nigerrimum cracked me up. That was certainly the most dramatic threat posture i've seen in a while..

Yeah, everything is so serious to her lol

 

[Shell]

Love that nigerrimum! Great pics, Jeff, I hope all well with you.

 

[papilio]

Haplopelma schmidti, I'd love to see what your photography could do for the species

So would I!! :biggrin: Just made my Most Wanted list, what a glorious-looking spider!

 

[jbm150]

Love that nigerrimum! Great pics, Jeff, I hope all well with you.

Thanks Shell, doing alright. Work is stressful and bummed with physical ailments but my Ts make me laugh (as per below)

Fed Llama, my auratum. As per her MO, she flung her body from across the enclosure onto the cricket. However, as she did, she bit both it and her plant at the same time, setting off a battle of evenly matched wills lol


When she couldn't do her happy dance because she was stuck with a tree in her mouth, she seemingly became confused and angry. She pulled and pushed and just couldn't figure it out


The cricket fell behind her but for whatever reason, she proceeded to savage her plant. Picture a frustrated, growling dog or cat and this was her



At this point, 5 minutes later, I felt bad for her. The cricket was just a memory and the battle with the plant wasn't going her way


I chased her off of it and she eventually found her cricket which she was able to eat, triumphantly I'm not sure what she thought she was doing but I don't think tarantulas are ever going to be accused of having high-level problem solving skills

 

[Alltheworld601]

I lol'd. Brachys have so much character.

 

[Brizzl]

Man those pictures are awesome. Please, more of llama!

 

[Storm76]

LOL - funny you caught this, Jeff! Good one

 

[papilio]

Yeah, like Jan said ^!
:biggrin:

 

[freedumbdclxvi]

She wanted some salad before the main course.

 

[jbm150]

Been a long time since posting, wish it were under happier circumstances. For the past couple of weeks, Nerezza, my Borneo black, had been acting abnormally, then clearly sick. She started coming out a lot more and wandering. I don't feed my spiders that often but her appetite was good. She was very thirsty though. Then I found her out of her burrow, sitting on the ground, very sluggish. I gave her yet more water, which she drank up. A few days later, though she was still out of her burrow, she gave me a threatpose. Good sign. Then she disappeared back into her burrow. I kept her sub damp and made sure she had plenty of water. Well, I just found her again, outside her burrow, dead. I pulled her out and sure enough, similar to others have had with their L. violaceopes, she died of impacted bowels. Her abdomen was very full and firm, her anus hard and crusted up. A slight incision around the anus produced a copious amount of very liquidy poop. God this sucks

Apologies for the morbidness



Not sure how and why this happens, especially so frequently with Lampropelma species. Susceptible to hard water maybe? She recently molted, perhaps something went wrong....

 

[freedumbdclxvi]

Damn, I am sorry to hear that.

 

[papilio]

That's a horrible story Jeff, sad to hear about that.

I have a couple of B.b. slings which Chad bred, don't have any experience with Lampros yet but I hope they make it alright.

 

[jbm150]

Damn, I am sorry to hear that.

Thanks Dustin, appreciate it

That's a horrible story Jeff, sad to hear about that.

I have a couple of B.b. slings which Chad bred, don't have any experience with Lampros yet but I hope they make it alright.

I've had this one since a tiny sling, with nary a problem. Then all of the sudden, she up and developed this problem. I'm sure yours will be fine Michael but keep an eye on them, especially as adults. If you notice yours significantly changing behavior, that may be a clue something is up. I don't know what can be done preventatively but maybe just be sure to keep the enclosure humid. I did but maybe it wasn't enough....

 

[papilio]

You know what Jeff, I just now remembered ...
I had one of the first Borneo blacks from Chris. As a juvie I noticed that it hadn't surfaced for a while, so I dug it up ... it was still alive, barely, but had exactly this same thing happening to its abdomen.

 

[hmbrower]

JBM, I had a 7" female L.violaceopes die the exact same way....... She was my favorite t at the time. Heart breaker.

 

[Storm76]

Geez, that sucks! Sorry about the loss, Jeff!