User Mike's picture thread

[Mike Withrow]

Two years I've been waiting on this lady to toss out a molt. Nope..and over a couple weeks she's been doing spider stuff and I've been waiting for her to drag one up.

She's molted twice in my care,how do I know for sure? She has a backing board and after two months underground,I looked and there was a molt shoved in one side. Her second was this February and came out in early April
skinny as a toothpick. My previous pics of her show's she's a healthy spider. So I know she went through a second molt.

This is what I akin to in my mind would find a burrow in the wild. I've posted pics of her since four or five months after I made an account here. I need a molt to send for 100 identification. Already got that lined out just waiting to get her to corporate.

Btw look at my early pics of her and you can see how much work she has done over the past couple weeks. Looks nothing like the same enclosure.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Two years I've been waiting on this lady to toss out a molt. Nope..and over a couple weeks she's been doing spider stuff and I've been waiting for her to drag one up.

She's molted twice in my care,how do I know for sure? She has a backing board and after two months underground,I looked and there was a molt shoved in one side. Her second was this February and came out in early April
skinny as a toothpick. My previous pics of her show's she's a healthy spider. So I know she went through a second molt.

This is what I akin to in my mind would find a burrow in the wild. I've posted pics of her since four or five months after I made an account here. I need a molt to send for 100 identification. Already got that lined out just waiting to get her to corporate.

Btw look at my early pics of her and you can see how much work she has done over the past couple weeks. Looks nothing like the same enclosure.

I prefer when they burrow in a spot they’re visible, must be a real stressor dealing with a pet hole in the middle of an enclosure/ I had same issue but the burrow collapsed. My last few molts disintegrated, so that’s just as bad as losing them in a burrow. Good luck !

 

[Mike Withrow]

Besides my Omothymus. This lady is food driven like crazy. She's been fed. Like four days ago a huge for her size roach.
Filling her water dish and she came flying out of her hide like I had laid a steak on the grill.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Beautiful spider. Very comical in a way. Also she's a very curious spider. I can be cleaning the glass and she will walk right out real slow like what's up.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Omothymus.Violaceopes.
She,I'm hoping is a tad over two inches dsl. My O.schioedtei is pushing four already. Both are currently in 36 oz cups. I've got more pictures to load of each . Seven rehousing coming up soon and I'm getting ready for the next couple of orders on my list.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Omothymus.Violaceopes.
She,I'm hoping is a tad over two inches dsl. My O.schioedtei is pushing four already. Both are currently in 36 oz cups. I've got more pictures to load of each . Seven rehousing coming up soon and I'm getting ready for the next couple of orders on my list.

Even red doesn't fool my H.macs so far all four are ghosts . Two are going to a friend for an juvenile P.muticus. my juvenile im keeping as well as the other that's not far behind.
The past year I've helped a friend and breeder with his collection. I'm wanting to get a few Phormingochilus now that I've gained some knowledge about them having reached out for it. Super super skittish hard to read and sonic boost built in factory.

 

[Mike Withrow]

I took this Oct the first goofing off before work. This is the best I can do for this year as far as representing the great spoodkin rising out of the spoodkin sac,err so to speak.

I can't compete with @NMTs who wields a mean carving knife.

 

[SpookySpooder]

The great slingkin rises. Very dramatic.

 

[NMTs]

I took this Oct the first goofing off before work. This is the best I can do for this year as far as representing the great spoodkin rising out of the spoodkin sac,err so to speak.

I can't compete with @NMTs who wields a mean carving knife.

The Tarantuween spirit is strong within you!!

 

[Mike Withrow]

Sooooo. Long story. Anyway pics coming soon of my omothymus schioedtei.
I've been moving and during the process destroyed my phone lost every password I had to everything so yeah this has not been a fun week.

Rehouse went great. She I hope is a she is absolutely gorgeous.
So sometime during the move I had another molt out. Shown no signs of even ready to molt other than a fat booty,but it's fine and has already had a meal.

This is at the end of the hole episode. She did go for a run on to the front of this tank which I use for growing a few plants and experimenting with. I really wanted a ventral pic but if she had got in that moss it would have been heck trying to dig her out.

@SpookySpooder
Last we spoke. That was my first night here at my new place. and I have not laughed that hard in years.

 

[SpookySpooder]

You're welcome. Now go find your keys Mike!

 

[Mike Withrow]

You're welcome. Now go find your keys Mike!

Found them!!!! Had some huge help,but it's covered.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Omothymus booty.

 

[Mike Withrow]

My Omothymus schioedtei. Different species than the other. This is the one I recently rehoused. Very shy and hard to get pictures of.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Caught her taking a poot. And some shots of others doing spider stuff after yesterday's cricket crunch.
Omothymus are absolutely eating machines.
Some or all of these pictures may suck because this camera on my phone sucks.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Been a while since I've posted anything. Just really busy. Anyway here is a picture I snapped of one of my Omothymus schioedtei that was hanging out this morning before I left for work. This one is the least skittish of the bunch so far.

 

[Mike Withrow]

This was the first time she's been out since April. I had made a post in another thread about her and was going as close to as I could remember until I could look at my notes.

From them which I do still have the pictures and video. In Nov 2023. She was out. Like I'm ready for food out. I got some nice pics and a cool video of her feeding.

I lost a friendly bet with Tom Moran. She's not 8 inches but she is a solid 6.5 maybe even pushing a tad over 7 inches.

She sealed up initially in late Dec and late April she had pushed bits or her molt out and the shoved a bunch of dirt in front of the entrance. The very next time she was out was yesterday. That's the first picture.

Next picture is from when I got home tonight.
You can see how much further she's out from her burrow. She's ready for a meal. Being this is post molt she got a male Dubia and will be another month before she's back out and I can feed smaller meals and see her more often.

I've had her a long time. She's really a stunning spider to look at and not bad skittish if she's sitting way out of her burrow ready for something to walk by.

 

[Mike Withrow]

This girl is not mine. Belongs to my best friend. I was there the day she came in as a sling. Pics do not do justice. Absolutely beautiful. A repercussion I've found when you go into the hobby and devote time like 98% to ow spiders and then as I did, offer to help rehouse a nw .
Going about my usual routine and not thinking about the defense mechanism nw use because I usually don't have that to deal with.
Such a rookie mistake and omg that sucked so bad I still cringe when I look at the substrate of any new world tarantula and think about rehousing.

I had to stop by there and get a hide in that minaxs tank and she was sitting out and I couldn't resist.