Species Lasiodora parahybana

[arachna]

Hi all,
This is Bambi Dolores, my female L.parahybana. She molted last night, and is out enjoying her new tank.

 

[Nico]

great picture and super good looking T congrats :clap:

 

[Northwave]

All of my five LP slings - except one - have finally started eating. Two of them even attacks the food when I put it infront of them, very entertaining.

Anyway, I just got myself a new camera and shot a couple of close-up's during feeding time, enjoy! I might add more later.

BTW, these two were born on 2004-05-15, and has been in my possesion since late august. They're about 1.5 cm's across.

 

[Northwave]

Here's another photo that turned out great. It's my female genic eating a cricket.

 

[manville]

Very nice picture of your parahybana eating. Nice tarantula too.

 

[manville]

lucky tarantula. congrats on the molt!

 

[Northwave]

Nice! Can't wait 'till my LP's gets that big.

 

[Vanan]

Nice! How big is she now?

 

[arachna]

She stretched about 3 cm's after the molt. She has approx. 13-14 cm legspan.
I got the whole molting on DV-tape, just have to buy a firewirecard so I can edit it on my computer before publishing it..

 

[c7me]

Just a few pictures of my small L. parahybana. Before the molt he/she was about 1.5”

 

[c7me]

A solid 2” now!

A solid 2” now! And a new home.

 

[Bpkid]

What exactly is molting?Thats a nice specimen

 

[nightbreed]

very cool pics I love the fourth one when they are in that pose and all white they remind me of a Giger pic

 

[c7me]

What exactly is molting?Thats a nice specimen

Molt
To shed periodically part or all of a coat or an outer covering, such as feathers, cuticle, or skin, which is then replaced by a new growth.

To shed or cast off (a bodily covering)

Edit: I hope that helps? :razz:

 

[jeffh_x]

tarantulas molt to grow..as they start to grow bigger on the inside, their old skin cant hold up any longer..thus, Ts shed skin to grow..

 

[Bpkid]

So its like shedding right?

 

[Silver.x]

If you wish to use that term, than yes. The proper term is, however, moulting.

Aidan

 

[Tarantula Lover]

Very nice pictures of the pary moulting, it looks very transparant. My paryhbana (sp.?) died after its first molt Good Luck with yours,


James

BTW- They get HUGE!

 

[manville]

very nice tarantula you have there..mine is about the same size as yours..

 

[BugToxin]

I relly wanted to post these yesterday just a few minutes after the molt, but I'm still just learning how to use my new camera and couldn't get the pics even close to what I wanted. I'm not much of a photographer yet, and it seems that the tricky part is getting the gorgeous photos down to the 100k limit. Anyway, my little baby (getting bigger each time) was just too nice to keep to myself so here are a few photos.