MindUtopia's Photo Thread

[MindUtopia]

Hey all,

Here are some pics of some of my kids...because I'm trying to procrastinate and playing with photobucket seemed like a good way to do it. Seriously, these pics are so old - at least a good year - but I have updated pics on my camera that I just need to get transferred to a CD so I can upload them. I lost my camera usb wire a long time ago, so taking pics has become a huge hassle because I actually have to go get the developed to put them on here. But this is a start. I'll hopefully upload the others sometime in the next week or so.

Starbright - my now nearly 3" A. versicolor likely-female

Zula - E. campestratus female

Zula molting

Cerulea - C. cynaneopubscens female

 

[Aunt Ant]

I lost the usb for my camera too, and decided to get a card reader. It transfers pics way faster than the wire did. Maybe it might be worthwhile? Radioshack and Best Buy have them, not terribly expensive

Your kids all look good! Lookin' forward to the new pics.
How do you like E.campestratus? I hear they're real nice, thinking of acquiring one eventually.. I'm living with people that think 3 Ts are a LOT.. so we'll see, lol

 

[MindUtopia]

Yeah, I should get a card reader. I've been trying to decide if I want to get one of those, try to find a new usb cable, or just get a new camera. Of course, that has been for the past year, so it's probably time to make a decision!

And yes, E. campestratus are great. I would highly recommend them. Mine can be a little skittish sometimes, but she's very sweet. The pink hairs, though subtle, are really pretty when you get a good look at her.

And I feel your pain about living with roommates who don't get T's. I have 3 roommates who think I have a lot of plants with all the potting soil they see me dragging home. We aren't allowed to have pets in our building, so I have to keep them a secret. That and if they ever found out there were 30 tarantulas and 2 snakes in my bedroom they'd probably kill me!

 

[Fingolfin]

Good luck on hiding that, or have you successfully for a long time?
I have a media reader in the front of my pc tower, it accepts all sorts of memory cards, so transferreing pics is fast and easy for me...

 

[Natemass]

im liking the pics specially that C. cynaneopubscens

lets see more!

 

[MindUtopia]

Good luck on hiding that, or have you successfully for a long time?
I have a media reader in the front of my pc tower, it accepts all sorts of memory cards, so transferreing pics is fast and easy for me...

Nah, it's easy. My roommates and I are all so busy, I'm lucky if I see another living person in my apartment twice a week. Otherwise, we keep to ourselves, which is great. More pics soon. I think I'm going to go with the card reader, but it'll be a few weeks. I have a T to buy right now and all my spare change is going for that!

 

[MindUtopia]

Well, thanks to Aunt Ant's prodding, I finally bit the bullet this weekend and got myself a card reader. Yay!! Here's all those pics I've been wanting to post forever.

First, an updated pic of Cerulea, my approximately 3 1/2" C. cyaneopubescens female

Another pic of Cerulea peeking at me from behind her very webbed up "shrub"

Mona, my now 4"+ B. albopilosum female. She and Cerulea were my very first T's.

 

[MindUtopia]

My officially 2 1/2" unsexed and namless Brachypelma baumgarteni (though my hunch is that it's a boy)

Unsexed about 3" Nhandu chromatus (also nameless - I got lazy with naming after a point)

One of my 5 Cyriocosmus elegans sub-adults - I forget which one this is, but it's one of my bigger ones so either Azareth, Rhodesia, or Lodea.

A not so glamorous pic of my close to 3" unsexed C. fimbriatus who doesn't come out to play that much.

 

[MindUtopia]

My very fat (I seriously have no idea why she is so fat! I don't feed her anymore than the others!) 1 1/2" unsexed Brachypelma klaasi sling

Mariposa, my 2" unsexed Megaphobema mesomelas (who I think is probably male, but I'm waiting for a better molt to confirm)

Nhandu (yeah, I know it's creative!), 2" Nhandu colloratovillosus (seemingly male as of this weekend's molt). I received this little one from my ex at 1/4" because he wouldn't eat anything for like 2 months and I have the spider nurse touch. Now he is getting so big! I can hardly believe it's the same T!

My quick 4 1/2" Avicularia purpurea female (currently being bred with Varden's male). This was the best shot I could get of her before she jumped away and shot poo at me.

 

[ShadowBlade]

A not so glamorous pic of my close to 3" unsexed C. fimbriatus who doesn't come out to play that much.

Do you happen to hold it much?
Mine happens to be quite docile (for a OW'er). And was wondering if other's were like that.


Great pics by the way!

 

[MindUtopia]

Zula, my 3 1/2" E. campestratus female (the 3rd T I ever owned after Mona and Cerulea)

Flame Knee (again, way creative), my nearly 3" unsexed Brachypelma auratum

Starlight, my almost 3" ventrally sexed as male Avicularia versicolor (to be paired with my other A. versicolor, Starbright, in a few more molts)

And our newest baby - Stella! I snapped this pic today after Stella, my new about 4" or so Brachypelma boehmei female, was unpacked. She's hopefully going to be bred with my ex's about to mature anyday now male.

 

[MindUtopia]

And lastly, for now, Big One, my 2" male unidentified T.

This guy was given to me as a freebie in September 2004 as a 1/4" L. parahybana. As you can see from the growth rate, he's definitely not an L. parahybana. As of this most recent molt (yesterday!), I have a good idea of what I think he actually is: I'm thinking Brachypelma albopilosum. He's clearly New World, not a Grammastola (lacks a mirror patch), and his curly copper hairs and slow growth rate make me think B. albopilosum. Only time will tell for sure.

That's it for now. The rest are either too small or I haven't had a chance yet to photograph them. Also, check out my other babies in the Not So Spineless Wonders forum.

 

[MindUtopia]

Do you happen to hold it much?
Mine happens to be quite docile (for a OW'er). And was wondering if other's were like that.


Great pics by the way!

Nope, don't handle any of my T's except for breeding or packing purposes, but his set-up is pretty tall and narrow so that he can burrow, so I wouldn't be able to get my hand in there easily if I wanted to.

 

[MindUtopia]

Oops, forgot one!

Trixie, my 6" P. cambridgei female (she would very much like a boyfriend if you happen to know one!)

 

[Mujahideen]

im like all your ts awesome collection:clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[Kriegan]

Beautiful n. chromatus(1st pic):clap: and that elegans sling is so tiny! Good grief i don't know if i could handle something that small and fragile but nice pics btw:clap:

 

[ShadowBlade]

slow growth rate make me think B. albopilosum.

Thats no growth rate of a B. albopilosum I've ever owned or heard of. Unless you don't feed it much. I've seen (and read) in a year they'll reach almost 4".

The one in my photo thread I obtained at less than .5" last November, and you can see how big it is!

 

[Arachnophilist]

my albopilosum is molting circles around my smithi.. molted way fater and has outgrown it in one molt and eats more... even had a faster mlt recovery by a long while!

 

[MindUtopia]

A few more...

A few more pics of my children from tonight:

Starlight, Avicularia versicolor probable male sub-adult

Jo, Avicularia geroldi unsexed juvie

I like to call this one blurry minatrix on a stick! Avicularia minatrix juvie (unsexed)

Another pic of Cerulea, C. cyaneopubescens

 

[MindUtopia]

Thats no growth rate of a B. albopilosum I've ever owned or heard of. Unless you don't feed it much. I've seen (and read) in a year they'll reach almost 4".

The one in my photo thread I obtained at less than .5" last November, and you can see how big it is!

I think it depends on how you feed. I have a 4" female that I got almost a year and a half ago at about 3", so she's only grown 1" in a year and several molts. This little guy has grown from 1/4" to about 1 1/2-2" in a year on 1 pinhead every week to week and a half. I'd thinking it's probably B. albopilosum simply because there aren't many other T's that would fit this description, being black underneath with curly copper hairs. I'm curious to see what he looks like though after another molt because his color is just starting to come in.