Genus Poecilotheria

[scuba113]

Thank you they all eat really well and thats just some of the pokies i have.

 

[catfishrod69]

all my pokies eat really well too, except my female P. metallica...she might be nearing a molt...i hope so...

 

[scuba113]

yea same with most of mine i try to feed them but never want it and end up molting a few days later. I finally got my female metallica to eat too

 

[catfishrod69]

i paired my female metallica not long ago..and she always just hangs out somewhere like a Avic...she doenst move much...and when i had the male in with her multiple times, they did nothing....she never bothered him, but there was no pairing....so im hoping that if she molts, and i get her fattened up maybe another male will get lucky....

 

[scuba113]

Oh that sounds great man. Its hard trying to time it right to get them to breed you never know what can happen. Iam hoping in a year or so i can pair up my metallica. right now i have a pair of fasciata, ornata as well. The fasciata i believe will be ready to breed after next molt

 

[catfishrod69]

i have 4 fasciata, 2 males, 2 females...i have a female ornata and about 3-4 younger ones....i think i have 6 pokie species now since i traded off my formosa girl...are your metallicas the same size?

 

[scuba113]

wow nice collection I got 11 regalis, 2 ornata, 2 metallica, 2 ghost, 2 fasciata, 1 formosa, and 1 lowland i think thats all of them the rest are something else. yea they are about the same size differnt blood lines.

 

[catfishrod69]

cool...the ghost are P. pederseni....my next ones to get are smithi, subfusca, ruffilata, tigrinawesseli, miranda, and the new ones i cant spell off the top off my head, ham something..haha....what i have been doing with my fasciata since they are all about the same size, is feeding the girls the biggest crickets possible, and the male medium to large crickets...hoping i can get the girls to get one molt past the males before they mature...

 

[scuba113]

oh thats cool man. i think iam going to stop for now just want to work with these guys first and the the other slings bigger. Yea thats what ive been doing trying to get all the females to mature first then work on the males. Iam sure my fasciata are both one molt away from being mature anyways.

 

[catfishrod69]

stop for now..haha...thats what i told my old lady...yet i got in 12 more last week, and should be getting 2 or more this week, and another 2 or more next week...

 

[Spiderman24]

Ill post mine here in a bit. I can see my metallica is venturimg imnher new home >.<

 

[scuba113]

yea i dont have the money to be spending on more tarantulas.
yea she is sometimes mostly hiding at the bottom of the tank. I also had to move her out so she can find food better

 

[Spiderman24]

yea i dont have the money to be spending on more tarantulas.
yea she is sometimes mostly hiding at the bottom of the tank. I also had to move her out so she can find food better

I tong fed her most of the time. So she probably sees you drop the prey in and is like "what the heck is this" lol

 

[scuba113]

lol really i could do that because she had so much room i didnt want her running out but its fine now i moved her out and she found the cricket ok now to get this one bigger

 

[catfishrod69]

well try not to push her much on feeding...just maybe feed her larger crickets....but if your male matured before she is big enough, i have a big girl...so does Ravin....

 

[scuba113]

yea i know they are about the same size right now hoping the mature around the same time but i guess i have to wait and see but this wont be until a year or so

 

[catfishrod69]

yep itll take some time...hope the timing works out for ya...and good luck pairing....mine didnt do anything at all, except spend time together...

yea i know they are about the same size right now hoping the mature around the same time but i guess i have to wait and see but this wont be until a year or so

 

[Spiderman24]

Dont send the male my way my ladys a killer. Lol

 

[catfishrod69]

haha...that does happen...my lady might not be into guys....

Dont send the male my way my ladys a killer. Lol

 

[scuba113]

hahahaha try a girl see what happens