Pseudoclamoris gigas information.

[Erica Clemente]

Hi everyone, hope all is well. I have a juvenile P. gigas and while I think I understand how to keep him/her, currently in a 1 gal cookie jar, cork bark, fake plants lots of holes water dish up high on a higher shelf in the room we keep our T’s in.... I can find very little information on them anywhere. Outside of lightning quick ( she has demonstrated) as housing her was pretty much the same as it was in Tom Morans video. She hangs out in a webbed up area near the top. She did molt in my care and decided to web it into her web. But I don’t really know the stuff like lifespan, sexual dimorphism, all the cool to know stuff I like to know. I find very little science data outside of what the world spider catalogue has. Anyone?

 

[Nightstalker47]

Lifespan for females is in the ballpark of 5-10 years, males are much shorter lived and can mature in as little as 18 months.

They are not sexually dimorphic until the male matures. Keep the soil semi-moist and offer water drops on the higher webbed areas every now and again, they are pretty hardy IME...never did anything special for them.

 

[Erica Clemente]

Thank you so much

 

[Nightstalker47]

Happy to help. Enjoy!

 

[cold blood]

Keep them just like any non avic type arboreal.

 

[The Grym Reaper]

Setup and care is the same as any other arboreal Psalmopoeinae.
Lifespan - About 10 years give or take.
They're only sexually dimorphic as mature specimens, immature specimens will look the same.

 

[Arthroverts]

I might also add to make sure they always have access to some moisture. Unlike most other species I've kept these will keel over and die as soon as the substrate dries out completely.

Thanks,

Arthroverts

 

[octanejunkie]

We have a P. gigas sling in a small Amac, no water dish. I spray the enclosure every other day. It basically lives in the Cholla wood stump. The only visible webbing ours has done has been a small amount between the stump and the side of the enclosure. It has it molted in our care yet but it eats with a vengeance.



Before becoming Psuedoclamoris gigas it was Tapinauchenius gigas. I found plenty of info on T. gigas online, but as been said here already, keep it like a non-avic arboreal.

 

[Erica Clemente]

I also have a water dish on the other side. I don’t know if you can see this one. It has molted in my care, but has decided to web it into its web Literally spun it directly in. I do sprinkle water into its web and keep some moisture in the substrate. I put some lizards nesting stuff on the bottom underneath the substrate that I read with arboreal gives a good vusual when its dried out