Species Lasiodora parahybana

[koldaar]

Mr Ed, I do believe that L. parahybana slings grow quite fast. This is my first time owning this species, but from what I've read they may nearly double in size with each molt their first year.

 

[edesign]

Koldaar, you aid your slings were about 1" before the molt? Mine just molted a week or 2 ago from about almost 1/2" to almost 1". Are they pretty fast growers? Mine also has that bluish color too.

read a few threads where some people said there's have gone from about 1" to around 7" in a year...give or take, pretty fast i'd say People often report a significant size increase with each molt for the first year as well.

 

[laila]

Hi!!

Congratulations... You are a grandfather! :clap:

Though i forgot all about you? No, she just took her time to produce, and I have been away.

The eggsack ins't too big (this picture is taken on the day it was laid - it has increased a bit since then), but she finally did it.

I will keep you posted, but hopefully I can send you half a sack in May.
The other female molted, BTW.

 

[Beardo]

Here is a crappy pic of my Lasiodora parahybana aka Salmon Bird Eater. He is about 1" and recently molted....he is a voracious eater but is fairly docile as well.

 

[bagheera]

Mine is going on 2½" and voracious. He thinks he an OBT. I have seem him throwing threats at the wall! Unfortunately I am yet to get much of a picture since he won't sit still in view. Reading the board I am quite surprised at variations of personality shown with specie!

 

[siucfi]

Sweet pic I am hoping to pic one of them up for myself sometime soon.

 

[koldaar]

I have three 1.5" parahybana and they are incredible eaters! They eat one to two 1/2" crickets per day! They are the fattest little guys! Can't wait till they are adults!

 

[Beardo]

Here is a better pic of him eating a mealworm:

 

[Mike H.]

Female about 5 inches...

Regards, Mike

 

[Joe1968]

sweet!!! just look at her chillin like that, all relaxed.

 

[Mattyb]

Very nice pose. she is a beauty.



-Mattyb

 

[Mike H.]

she is in premolt right now...I raised her from a little sling...I have had her for about a year....great spider...massive feeder and always out in the open...


Regards, Mike

 

[Arachnomaniak]

I love the species. I have one I got a while back as a sling and it's growing like crazy! Gotta love a massive spider that's not shy

 

[shogun804]

i agree L parabyhana are great T's thats a cool looking pic too...

 

[Brian S]

Nice spider Mike!!! I have yet to get one of these.

 

[edesign]

I knew my L. parahybana sling was about to molt since it had started to finally refuse food about 5-6 days ago, maybe a little longer and had darkened substantially...got out of bed at 11AM and noticed it was sitting on the back of it's clay pot. Around 12:30PM I saw it had flipped on to it's back and was starting to molt...it got done at almost exactly 3PM Here's some pics i took while checking in on it periodically:

 

[edesign]

the rest of the story

 

[WhyTeDraGon]

when I click on the 2nd and 3rd linked ones, it gives me a page that requires me to log in.

 

[Fred]

Nice T. I wish I took pics of my L striatus molting....

 

[edesign]

when I click on the 2nd and 3rd linked ones, it gives me a page that requires me to log in.

the rest of them worked though? I've never had to log on to Image Shack before for them to host pictures. Hmmm, if anyone else has this problem please let me know and I'll find another way to post these. Not even sure why the first one is so big, they're usually thumbnailed like the rest of the pictures...

EDIT: *Nm...i see what you meant about log in, that's just the page to input the picture to be hosted. They should be fixed now, i was getting the same error when i clicked on them. First one does the same thing they were but it's so big no need to click if anyone else has problems lemme know*