User Ladyratri's picture thread

[curtisgiganteus]

When I saw your first pic there, I said, ahh, keeping them without lids. Now that's a new approach! lol

Honestly once they astablish themselves like @ladyratri’s you probably could and they wouldn’t go too far lol

 

[ladyratri]

This is how I have been keeping all my Avics. They are all currently .5-.75

These look fine to me, but I like to give them more space. I started my A. purpurea even at .75 inch in a 16 oz deli cup. Never had trouble keeping my eyes on it, and it never had trouble catching food. Didn't have any bark, just gave it one nice big fake leaf, and it made hammocks.

The Early Days:


Hard to see in that exact photo, but there is some ventilation on two sides... You can kinda see it above the water dish through the bin.

I’m relatively new to keeping Avics.

So am I! Just hit a year with this little booger last week.

Honestly once they astablish themselves like @ladyratri’s you probably could and they wouldn’t go too far lol

Haha I think it depends a bit in the individual. My versi will probably never leave its web tube again

This stinker has a little more personality. It tends to go through a little cycle where it is timid for a while after molting. Not just a couple weeks, but until it really starts chunking up again. Then it goes into exploring mode for a while, until it gets too fat to be bothered. I suspect that if I actually left it open during "exploring mode" it would eventually explore out of the bin. That said, I've also seen it feeling around when I had the bin open for checking water etc, and watched it hook like two toes over the edge and immediately freeze... And then very deliberately unhook them again and retreat back into its nice safe home. So yeah.

 

[ladyratri]

G. pulchra "Lava" needs to keep tabs on the water dish any time I open its lid. Not even 24 hours post-molt. Leg for days...


A. purpurea "Baby T" still scrunching...I think this molt might have taken it by surprise. It just ate 8 days ago and didn't web the exits shut like usual.

 

[ladyratri]

A. purpurea "Baby T" through a year of stretching:


Arrived with us in Feb 2022. Size check before its first molt with us:


Updated size check a year later:

 

[ladyratri]

A. purpurea "Baby T" starring in Return of the Tree Squid:


Also been working on his (probably) pokie pose -- back in September we had two legs not tucked in:

Now just one straggler left:


Meanwhile, next door, G. pulchra "Lava" is really annoyed that the disturbance she detected turned out to be just water, and not food, so she's sulking on the other side of her bin:

 

[curtisgiganteus]

A. purpurea "Baby T" starring in Return of the Tree Squid:
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Also been working on his (probably) pokie pose -- back in September we had two legs not tucked in:
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Now just one straggler left:
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Meanwhile, next door, G. pulchra "Lava" is really annoyed that the disturbance she detected turned out to be just water, and not food, so she's sulking on the other side of her bin:
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I need my purpurea and sp Colombia to get that big so I can stop stressing lol

Edit: Scratch that, I need ALL my avic slings to get that big so I can stop stressing

 

[ladyratri]

Fresh A. purpurea leg floof is officially out of control.

After a couple meals, I'm definitely going to have to figure out how to get this pretty boy to sit out for some proper pictures.

P. irminia "Spunk" got a turn helping to control the lesser mealworm population in my cricket bin:

Nice fang, sweetie.

G. pulchra "Lava" wanted to know why her neighbor got treats and she didn't:

Because you'll get fat to fast honey, I just fed you like 2 days ago.

 

[ladyratri]

A. purpurea "Baby T" ventured out of his complex hammock-and-tube system today to have a little lounge on his tree


Clearly still nervous when I made noise walking into the room, and this is without any natural light, but those gorgeous colors are starting to show!

 

[ladyratri]

You gotta post it up when it does. The a purpurea I have is a lil sling.

Omg!!!! Looking so good..! I too cant wait to see the brilliant purple as it starts to come in

The purple is real!

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Lava seriously looks forlorn there, lol

 

[ladyratri]

Lava seriously looks forlorn there, lol

Like a little kid drooling on the glass case at the bakery when their parents say they can't have anything

She was at it again today. Those back legs are just out of control.

 

[ladyratri]

P. irminia "Irma" still hasn't molted yet. She was sold to me labeled 3" but uh...

That sure looks closer to 4" to me. Definitely got more spider than I bargained for. She's still gorgeous though.

 

[Dementeddoll]

The purple is real!
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What a beauty!

 

[ladyratri]

Judgemental slings/juvis lately.

A. purpurea "Baby T" judges me for being too slow to clean up the leftovers.


G. pulchra "Lava" judges me for saying she's already getting a little chonky and we'll have to slow down on the crickets.

She wants me to know she can still lift up that booty just fine.

 

[ladyratri]

P. irminia "Irma" back out modeling her fully leggy gloriousness now that she's no longer full of phantom eggs.


A. purpurea "Baby T" (lol) hanging out on its tree. Seems to have acquired a bit of a bald spot, but still gorgeous.

 

[ladyratri]

I hear imitation is the highest form of flattery...

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Such beautiful ladies!

 

[Pedipalpable]

P. irminia "Irma" back out modeling her fully leggy gloriousness now that she's no longer full of phantom eggs.
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A. purpurea "Baby T" (lol) hanging out on its tree. Seems to have acquired a bit of a bald spot, but still gorgeous.
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Oh dear. Your photos are convincing me that I need to get myself an arboreal! Something about the way they sit spread out like that is just so elegant and captivating. But I'm not quite there yet. Sometime in the future though.

 

[ladyratri]

Your photos are convincing me that I need to get myself an arboreal!

I'm really quite smitten with them. Got my sights set on maybe getting a tapi later this year... Still really want to get a Y. diversipes sling. Getting a DOA last October was rough, and I actually still have the enclosure all set up for it that I never took apart.

I love how they hunt, how they move, the proportions, and the coloring... Hope I will be in a position some day to get a pokie and an H mac. that camouflage

Rest assured, if and when I do, they'll be featured here!

 

[ladyratri]

Something about the way they sit spread out like that is just so elegant and captivating.

And sometimes ominous.