mitchnasts pics

[mitchnast]

figued I would start one of these.

freshly molted C. marshalli juvenile, unsexed

recently molted, P. irminia sling

after a few roach nymphs

freshly molted, P. cambridgei juvenile

freshly molted east african trapdoor babboon

another one

 

[jbm150]

East African trapdoor baboon? What is that? It looks more like a T than a trapdoor...:?

 

[Fred]

Your C. marshalli is awesome. She has some awesome colouring. The trap door is also really cool.

 

[mitchnast]

yeah, I have 3 of these trapdoor spiders, I showed them to Rick West and he said they were either Tanzanian or South African. Nobody really knows exactly what they are, but they make strong burrows, topped with a silk-reinforced trapdoor. The best guess I could muster after hours of comparitive speculation up and down each family tree was Cyphonisia sp., "East African Silver tunneling spider" that's a big maybe.
someone else posted at the atsdb forum, a spider identical to mine as Cyphonisia spp.
http://www.atshq.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23055
So I reckon thats what I got.
heres one on the arm.

My male Poecilotheria fasciata Juvie. He chewed his own leg off before I got him, He is in BAD need of a moult, maybe most of the leg will regen this time.

My little wee Brachypelma albopilosum a week before moulting. and a week after.

The P cam after 2 adult male dubia roaches.

 

[mitchnast]

That P. cambridgei did a molt that it did not chew up.
Thats the good news, the ho-hum news is the result.
about what I expected though. He was looking light-tan, feathery, and spindly-legged.
So I have a real sausage fest going on.

 

[Mattyb]

Nice collection you have

 

[mitchnast]

A little photoshoot for my finest G. rosea. Ive had her a while since i picked her up at a pet shop for $20
I consider her to be an exceptionally fine example of her species, and a better specimine than I paid for. Its hard to catch how remarkable she is in pics.
Gaze upon her subtle complexities and know them.

 

[x Mr Awesome x]

There's some nice pics and T's in here!

-ben

 

[mitchnast]

Brachypelma albopilosum molted again a couple weeks ago,
Heres how much it has grown since mid august. Not bad for fighting off a paracitic mite infestation, which, seems completely resolved.

 

[mitchnast]

Somebody molted... after I took this pic, it turned around, and projectile shat a
defensive turd at my face then scurried away into its hide. Good aim too, would have gone bang in my right eye if not for the plastic between us.

 

[Teal]

Gorgeous T! So fluffy

 

[mitchnast]

Yeah, a feller here who was moving cross the border to live with his fiancee gave him to me 4 months ago. He haid he had had it about a year and I asked if it had molted, he said no. It has molted twice since I've gotten it.

 

[radiata]

nice collection you have ....

 

[crawltech]

nice pics man!...good to see some B.C guys on the board!

 

[mitchnast]

the lil p. irminia sling i posted back in september now looks like this.

 

[mitchnast]

above P. irmina, molted

just a shot of my setup, door closed, locks.

and open

its an MDF cabinet with acryllic window in door my employer way throwing out, I lined it with corrugated vinyl (found in dumpster) and ran heat cable around it, I put in an ultrasonic humidifier ($4.99 from value village) on low volume at 60%, added small light and makeshift foil reflector (that you cant see from the outside, and voila, everything ghetto, pro-looking enviromentally-controlled chamber.
stays 28°C and 60%rh all the time. actual enclosures may be warmer, I arrange them in warmer spots based on country of origin.

Heres my male P. fasciata, just molted, you can no longer tell he ate his own leg before I got him 2 molts ago.

 

[mitchnast]

Antrodiaetus hageni

found immediately as I had begun my first hunt for them

 

[mitchnast]

Another molt from my curiously greenish-yellow patterned female P.irmina

 

[jbm150]

I don't know the story about this one, thats an irminia? Looks like a dark cambridgei....

 

[mitchnast]

yah, Ever since I got her many molts ago, she seemed like something other than suntiger by color. At first I thought she was a male, and going towards a lighter color, but she just keeps molting out shades of green-yellow, And I determined last molt that she is definately female.
Everyone who knows the genus has vouched for irminia