Linothele megatheloides

[tarcan]

I had the chance to buy one a little while ago from Tarantula Canada, but I opted not to because the dealer isn't so knowledgeable about true spiders and much much more about tarantulas. I remember seeing similar species and people telling me that their venom is bad. I could be wrong though so don't take my word for it.

Hey Jesse,

I might not be too knowledgeable about true spiders, but one thing I do know, these are not true spiders, they are mygalomorphs!

Martin

 

[JesseD]

Oh really. Sorry Martin.

 

[cjm1991]

Where do you buy these at??

 

[What]

As far as I know the only dealer in the US selling Linothele sp. is Crazy Dave's Inverts.

 

[spiders4life]

Lnothele fallax freshly moulted;P

Regards Mikael

 

[BoBaZ]

This species is so great.

I must buy this spider

 

[case214]

More Linothele fallax

 

[case214]

 

[Bastian Drolshagen]

adult and fully grown/colored female and mom of at least 300 spiderlings (from different sacs):

 

[Bastian Drolshagen]

L. megatheloides:

 

[proper_tea]

I've got an idea...

How 'bout you all just give them to me?

sound fair?

 

[Erigo]

Hi guys, i have a question:

how much humidity Linothele megatheloides need?

 

[Bastian Drolshagen]

hi,
dunno in percent, but if you keep the substrate moist you won´t have any problems with keeping this species

 

[Erigo]

Thank you very much!

 

[Scott C.]

Any tips on sexing these? Same as T's with the molt perhaps? I tried, and failed with a very small skin.... looked different inside to me.... I have some larger fresh molts though at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated... I really like these, and would love to send L. fallax 'round the states.

Also, anything out of the ordinary when breeding these? Average number of eggs in a sac?

Cheers,
Scott

 

[Bastian Drolshagen]

hi,
sexing is a little bit more difficult at Dipluridae, since the spermathecae sclerotizes very late during their development. Before it is sclerotized chances to find are much higher when using a lighting from below rather than from above.

Before the spermathecae look like this they´re almost transparent and therefore harder to find - but their shape is almost the same.

Nothin special about breeding Linothele sp., only that you should seperate the spiderlings early. I made some test on communal keeping them (possible at Ischnothele caudata - mother feeds her offspring) and they soon began feeding on each other, although there was plenty of crickets/fruitflies.
Females almost never kill their male.
Depending on the size of the female the amount of eggs within a sac is between 80 and 120.
Opened a sac of L. megatheloides yesterday - bottom of the cricket box is covered with prelarvae

 

[josh_r]

megatheloides is in the US and will be distributed soon enough.

 

[Scott C.]

Thank you kindly Bastian

...and very cool Josh

I'll get some pics up in the near future.

Cheers,
Scott

 

[Scott C.]

Here's those pics...

Shy little guys, but here is what I could get so far....

0.0.1 Linothele fallax

Here's some various ways I'm keepin 'em

and here's part of the burrow from that last set up...

Cheers,
Scott

 

[buthus]

Scott...thats one fine lookin spidie! Love it. May I ask... did u get it from Crazy D?