Genus Poecilotheria

[Yellow]

Poecilotheria fasciata - female

 

[BEN-V]

Poecilotheria miranda female :



BEN

 

[eman]

Elle est vraiment superbe! :clap:

 

[Cooper]

^

"She is truly superb :clap: "

for the english people here haha

 

[eman]

LOL - thanks David...

 

[BEN-V]

Some of my little Poecilotheria metallica (3rd molt) :







BEN

 

[MachineRoad]

BEN-V : she's great!! is she realy after 3rd molt? she looks smaller

 

[Michael Jacobi]

Congrats!
Isnt that many for P. subfusca?

I know you have experimented a bit with this specie to make perfect conditions.. what did you do with this one?

Just wanted to let you know that I am not ignoring your question. I prefer to wait until all offspring have reached 2nd instar and begun to feed prior to commenting. I'm not superstitious; just cautious . Plus, I don't want to scoop myself! I am collaborating on an article with Billy Korinek and Bruce Effenheim from Theraphosid Breeding Project regarding the US breeding of P. subfusca for ARACHNOCULTURE 2(1). I will just say that I had 73 1st instars in 2004 and have 70-74 1st instars presently. The recent sac had a total of 94 eggs. The sac hatched by my co-authors included over 50 healthy spiderlings.

Cheers, Michae

 

[Bearo]

ok that sounds great good luck..
Phalagorn had alot of egs in his P. subfusca sac also.. I belive it was over 80.. maby 85? but just 2 survived to become spiderlings :/

 

[hamfoto]

new addition...

P. formosa

really fiesty! she gave me my first threat pose from my pokies...
now I'm up to: P. regalis, P. rufilata, P. formosa

thanks,
Chris

 

[tarsier]

very nice!!!!

 

[CedrikG]

BEN ... Theres 2 "Smilie" that make a perfect conclusion to what i've to say:


:worship: and :clap:

 

[Mechanical-Mind]

Poecilotheria rufilata; sub-adult female:

 

[Twysted]

My metallica and rufliata slings just molted...

here they are.

 

[MRL]

Hey did you get a chance to sex that Pmet?

nice pictures!

 

[Twysted]

If I told you what happened you wouldnt believe me....

But I will tell you anyways for a laugh...

I managed to get the molt undamaged.. Placed it in a plastic canister with a moist napkin. I was going to buy a microscope or a magynafying glass the next dday but that night MY DOG ATE IT!!!!

I left it out on my weight bench next to the bed and when I woke up I found pieces of plastic and parts of the molt EVERYWHERE!!!

I was not pleased...

will have to wait another couple months now again..

 

[MRL]

If I told you what happened you wouldnt believe me....

But I will tell you anyways for a laugh...

I managed to get the molt undamaged.. Placed it in a plastic canister with a moist napkin. I was going to buy a microscope or a magynafying glass the next dday but that night MY DOG ATE IT!!!!

I left it out on my weight bench next to the bed and when I woke up I found pieces of plastic and parts of the molt EVERYWHERE!!!

I was not pleased...

will have to wait another couple months now again..

Thats harsh. Kind of funny how P mets are what motivates people to actually go out and buy a microscope. I did the same and ended up damaging my molt (albeit tiny) while trying to view it under the scope.

 

[Twysted]

hehe that is very true.. I have had hundreds of T's molt and havnt bothered getting a microscope untill I got an intact molt of my metallica.. but now my dog has bought me another couple months before I have to get one again (damn dog..) hes just lucky it was just a molt, if that was a live metallica the T would probably have bitten him, not to mention what I would have done to him for eating a P metallica..

 

[CedrikG]

yeah ... Poecilotheria bite are bad on us, but its totally another story on animals

 

[phormingochilus]

Actually it seems as if dogs are hyper sensitive to theraphosid bites, whereas cats has no ill effects whatsoever ... strange ;-)

Regards
Søren

yeah ... Poecilotheria bite are bad on us, but its totally another story on animals