Purchased My 1st Old World T

[MILKYTOAST]

It was hard to even get a picture but my first old world is an sp. hati hati and I wish myself luck! After keeping 3 new worlds I've decided I should give it a try. I'm curious with people's experience with this species.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

They're very reclusive and you'll probably almost never see them, but when you do it's a treat! They're also amazing hunters and grab prey lightning fast. Give them plenty of substrate because they burrow a lot, but will also climb a piece of cork bark. Their growth rate is moderate-fast I'd say. I got my female about 6 months ago when she was around 1in DLS, and now she's about 2.25in DLS. They're also very skittish. Mine has never been aggressive or done a threat posture, and always sprints back to her burrow when disturbed. They need moist substrate in order to thrive. I use a curved tip syringe to inject water into the bottom layers of substrate.

 

[viper69]

It was hard to even get a picture but my first old world is an sp. hati hati and I wish myself luck! After keeping 3 new worlds I've decided I should give it a try. I'm curious with people's experience with this species.

You should have picked a different genus IMO, like Ceratogyrus among others.

It’s a faster locality no doubt.

 

[Irithyllian]

It was hard to even get a picture but my first old world is an sp. hati hati and I wish myself luck! After keeping 3 new worlds I've decided I should give it a try. I'm curious with people's experience with this species.

I myself picked one up just a couple weeks ago!! I just had a chilobrachys elec blue deliver in the mail just the other day, but I’m excited for the hati hati too!

Old worlds are nice, don’t let them intimidate you, a few things I’ve learned here is about all T’s old and new world are all fast, in fact a thread I made some of the vets on here insisted a couple new worlds and even true spiders can blow the doors off of old worlds in terms of speed. Old worlds just seem much more likely to run. that said buying a sling is nice, you get to grow your experience as they grow too. One tip I wish I knew before, any rehousing and the like do in your bathtub, with the drain covered. I had a M balfouri sling escape during a rehouse and lived in my recliner for 3 days till I box cuttered the thing.

Ps. I regret to say, that butchered chair is still being used with a massive blanket covering the corpse of itself.

 

[AlbaArachnids92]

I had a M balfouri sling escape during a rehouse and lived in my recliner for 3 days till I box cuttered the thing.

My Mrs would rather use the box cutter on me in that situation haha

 

[Smotzer]

Please try and use the full latin names when referring to species, "sp. hati hati" is not a correct way to refer to this species. Chilobrachys sp. Hati Hati is.

@Irithyllian Hahahah I remember that recliner episode

 

[Spoodfood]

It was hard to even get a picture but my first old world is an sp. hati hati and I wish myself luck! After keeping 3 new worlds I've decided I should give it a try. I'm curious with people's experience with this species.

I would have waited a bit, but good luck.

 

[Edan bandoot]

Please try and use the full latin names when referring to species, "sp. hati hati" is not a correct way to refer to this species. Chilobrachys sp. Hati Hati is.

@Irithyllian Hahahah I remember that recliner episode

Aren't they Cyriopragopus?

 

[Smotzer]

Aren't they Cyriopragopus?

Precisely my point!!!……I don’t know what it is because there no full Latin binomial nomenclature!!!

 

[l4nsky]

Aren't they Cyriopragopus?

Yes. Cyriopagopus sp Hati Hati, Omothymus sp Hati Hati, and Orinothoctoninae sp Hati Hati are all synonyms for the same undescribed species.

@MILKYTOAST, not the best first Old World IMO. In addition to the OW speed, attitude, and venom potency, C. sp Hati Hati is also a moisture dependent species. They need moist, deep soil and adequate ventilation. It adds a bit to the challenge, but the challenge isn't insurmountable. You just need to do a bit of research and pay a little more attention to them. I've detailed the husbandry methods for the moisture dependent species in my collection here:
https://arachnoboards.com/threads/l4nskys-methodology.343787/post-3161927