User Ladyratri's picture thread

[Stu Macher]

I recently picked up a G iherningi. I love that thing. Great pictures

 

[ladyratri]

My big, beautiful girl has gotten big! And is still beautiful.

P. irminia "Irma"



I doubted myself when I bought her...even more when I got her home and realized she was a solid inch bigger than advertised. I waited a week to rehouse her out of the pet store container so I could prepare some better rehousing techniques and get a better enclosure for her.

I have not regretted getting her for an instant since.


Just gorgeous.

 

[Michael Livote]

My big, beautiful girl has gotten big! And is still beautiful.

P. irminia "Irma"
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I doubted myself when I bought her...even more when I got her home and realized she was a solid inch bigger than advertised. I waited a week to rehouse her out of the pet store container so I could prepare some better rehousing techniques and get a better enclosure for her.

I have not regretted getting her for an instant since.

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Just gorgeous.

She's a beauty!

 

[Stu Macher]

My big, beautiful girl has gotten big! And is still beautiful.

P. irminia "Irma"
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I doubted myself when I bought her...even more when I got her home and realized she was a solid inch bigger than advertised. I waited a week to rehouse her out of the pet store container so I could prepare some better rehousing techniques and get a better enclosure for her.

I have not regretted getting her for an instant since.

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Just gorgeous.

She's a beauty. I really love this sp. I'm going to rehouse mine into something better than a bin with more clarity. I don't feel right looking through a milky container with this one. I may possibly go all out and just give her a 12x12x18. She's out much more She's close to 6" dls now

 

[Michael Livote]

She's a beauty. I really love this sp. I'm going to rehouse mine into something better than a bin with more clarity. I don't feel right looking through a milky container with this one. I may possibly go all out and just give her a 12x12x18. She's out much more She's close to 6" dls now

Wow, shes a big'un! I always put any spood over 5" in a glass 10 gallon fish tank, great clarity and easy to work with.

 

[Stu Macher]

Wow, shes a big'un! I always put any spood over 5" in a glass 10 gallon fish tank, great clarity and easy to work with.

So with arboreals do stand the cage vertically?. I'm curious about this option. Do you have an example setup you could show? (if you're not busy)

 

[Michael Livote]

So with arboreals do stand the cage vertically?. I'm curious about this option. Do you have an example setup you could show? (if you're not busy)

I personally don't have any arboreals myself now, but when I did I used reptile tanks for that. They have doors in the front and a waterproof bottom, good all around for them. I know of no cheap way to keep them sadly.

 

[ladyratri]

Serious new housing development going on at the end of the block. Hope you got all the right permits for that new construction, Drama Queen.



Meanwhile, T3 has some kinda raised ranch situation going on, after I messed everything up trying to extract the mealworm it wouldn't eat.



Notice, however, that the new front door is in fact big enough to fit a cricket through

 

[ladyratri]

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Hide: The Roofdeck Edition, by G. iheringi:



How Dare You Get My Butt Wet, by P. irminia "Irma"


Stealth Mode, by Y. diversipes "Drama Queen"


Does This Make Me Look Thin Enough To Feed, by T. sp. violaceus "T3"


And, of course...
"Spot The Psalmo!" by P. ecclesiasticus "Spot"

 

[ladyratri]

Y. diversipes "Drama Queen": you got any more of those 'cricket' things? Just, uh, for research, you know.


P. irminia "Irma": if she does, kid, I'm getting them first.


G. iheringi: wait, there's crickets?!


Tapinauchenius sp. violaceus "T3": there WAS crickets......

 

[ladyratri]

T3 hon, are you really waiting for....more food??


Drama Queen, on the other hand, is definitely done eating for this round. Dramatically so.


Irma is still a beautiful derp.


P.S. Irma would also like me to be inescapably aware that she noticed I refilled her water dish.

That's the same molt she dumped up on top of her cork bark a while ago and then promptly STOLE IT BACK before I got a chance to grab it.

 

[ladyratri]

Could've sworn I heard the world's tiniest polite cough ever from over by the spider desk.

"Ahem? Excuse me?"

"I was just wondering, ma'am, if you perhaps didn't hear me a couple days ago, when I said '... cricket?'"

3 hours later.....


Meanwhile, next door, friend iheringi pounced on the water like starvation was imminent, so I offered a cricket. Apparently, it just wanted cuddles.

 

[Michael Livote]

 

[ladyratri]

Friend iheringi had been having fun with the extra-jumpy crickets from the fancy pet store.

I, however...have been having perhaps less fun with them.

Yes, she got it back. And this time, she pounced it so hard she tore up the edge of her lovely web carpet with it.


Meanwhile, Drama Queen is having some challenges too

 

[ladyratri]

His maturing molt was October 29. I really don't know what to expect but I'm hoping he'll make it to the end of 2024 with us.

Awww bless him . I asked and males live about a year once mature

I remain impressed that Spunk stuck with us for almost an extra 5 months past a year. I love my Irma girl, but he's the one who convinced me that my collection, while very small, will probably always contain a growing Psalmo.

Spot (P. ecclesiasticus) is definitely growing -- becoming more visible with some decent size, and embracing the classic Psalmo sling hunting methods:

And the size gain is finally starting to catch up with the other slings...

Spot:


T. sp violaceus T3:


Meanwhile, next door, Madam iheringi is showing off her fresh new size and gorgeous floof:


Strongly considering naming her Magma. Because, y'know, her neighbor Lava has been sequestered underground for like a year and a half, but this girl is always topside and didn't even bother digging.

My husband: "... Wait, isn't that backwards?"
Me: "yes. Yes it is. Thank you for explaining the joke."

Because I am easily amused, and half my spoods have a "long" version of their name (e.g. "Lava, The Floor Is") hers is probably "it's Magma when it's underground, derp".

Likely she'd be Maggie for short.

 

[Charliemum]

I remain impressed that Spunk stuck with us for almost an extra 5 months past a year. I love my Irma girl, but he's the one who convinced me that my collection, while very small, will probably always contain a growing Psalmo.

Spot (P. ecclesiasticus) is definitely growing -- becoming more visible with some decent size, and embracing the classic Psalmo sling hunting methods:

And the size gain is finally starting to catch up with the other slings...

Spot:
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T. sp violaceus T3:
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Meanwhile, next door, Madam iheringi is showing off her fresh new size and gorgeous floof:
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Strongly considering naming her Magma. Because, y'know, her neighbor Lava has been sequestered underground for like a year and a half, but this girl is always topside and didn't even bother digging.

My husband: "... Wait, isn't that backwards?"
Me: "yes. Yes it is. Thank you for explaining the joke."

Because I am easily amused, and half my spoods have a "long" version of their name (e.g. "Lava, The Floor Is") hers is probably "it's Magma when it's underground, derp".

Likely she'd be Maggie for short.

He did amazingly well! All hail your handsome boy

Got big quick well done little ones

That's a perfect name plus get to do Dr Evil impressions then , although she will always be friend ihiringhi to me