Questions About Neoholothele incei and Holothele longipes (ex H. sanguiniceps)

[N33c0l3]

I'm looking into Neholothele Incei and Holothele Sanguiniceps. Is there anything someone can tell me about their care? I haven't been able to find much online about them. I'm specifically looking for information about their appetites, burrowing habits (as I think they are both terrestrials), and whether one requires more humidity than the other?

 

[MikeyD]

Neoholothele incei are easy to care for. They like some moisture in the substrate and I usually jusy wet down half their enclosure and some webbing as they really just web over the water dish and make it difficult to use. They need anchor points and enough substarte to burrow and then they will web everything up. I usually start them off with a piece of cork bark or some other small hide and have it partially buried and they then remodel as they see fit. They spend a lot of time in their burrows but readily appear when food is offered.

The Holothele is different in its behavior. The happiest mine had been is when I gave it a 4x8 inch Euro style container with the front flip up lid. I had it a couple inches of substrate and then filled half the container with flat pieces of cork bark and left the front portion open with a small water dish. It tunneled underneath the wood and made multiple chambers and exits and it’s been happy ever since. I keep it with most of the substrate dry but wet down a portion in the front and near the bark so it can choose where it wants to be. Its much more shy than the Neoholothele and tends to stay hidden and is not nearly as responsive to food.
If you are trying to decide between the two I would say get the Neoholothele. I have both the gold and the olive colour form and they are great Ts to have. And if you want a more interesting display with webbing then absolutely get the Neoholothele.

 

[Ungoliant]

Moderator note: I moved this question to its own thread, where it's more likely to get responses.

I'm looking into Neholothele Incei and Holothele Sanguiniceps. Is there anything someone can tell me about their care?

I used a GBB-like setup for my Neoholothele incei (terrestrial but with lots of anchor points), except I moisten some of their substrate. (She never burrowed under her cork. That was just something else for her to web.)

Neoholothele incei Enclosure

• Ungoliant
• Mar 5, 2018
• enclosure holothele incei holothele vellardi incei neoholothele neoholothele incei trinidad olive tarantula

small Exo Terra Breeding Box (8" x 8" x 5.5")

My incei is by far the most persistent about webbing over her water dish. At one point, she had a stack of four water dishes because I kept adding a new dish when she made the previous dish inaccessible for cleaning. That's why I often drip water onto her webbing instead of fussing over the dish.

This species eats well and grows quickly.

Holothele Sanguiniceps

It looks like the name is now Holothele longipes.

 

[Teal]

I loooove Neoholothele incei. They are prolific webbers that burrow more as youngsters than adults, in my experience. They are hardy and quick to mature. They can be skittish, darting back into aburrow at the slightest disturbance, but I have a few that are rather bold.

 

[viper69]

I'm looking into Neholothele Incei and Holothele Sanguiniceps. Is there anything someone can tell me about their care? I haven't been able to find much online about them. I'm specifically looking for information about their appetites, burrowing habits (as I think they are both terrestrials), and whether one requires more humidity than the other?

There's tons of info on incei on this forum. As I type this message there's a a number of incei threads that have popped up below this text field. Check it out.

 

[boina]

In contrast to @MikeyD I keep my Holothele moist (because the breeder told me to do so) and my Neoholothele dryer. I think that just goes to show that moisture levels are not that important for both species. You could try to keep both species on half moist/half dry sub and see what they prefer.

Since information on Neoholothele is plenty I'd just like to add that the Holothele webs much less and burrows more, but my AF is out of her burrow often enough and quite visible. She is crazy skittish and nervous though, and incredibly fast.

 

[Ungoliant]

You could try to keep both species on half moist/half dry sub and see what they prefer.

My N. incei seems indifferent to which area is damp, as she just chills in her web tunnels anyway.

 

[MikeyD]

The younger of my two N incei enjoying a snack. The older of the two is the gold color form and it didn’t eat tonight because I found a fresh molt when I opened it’s enclosure.

 

[buzz182]

N.incei has been by far the easiest T in my collection to care for, sub I keep fairly dry to start as they soon create a more moist sub when they web the water dish, I add a hide for them either to use in their web house or ignore completely. Both mine have less substrate than my other terrestrials as they soon fill the space with webbing.

I have seen different behaviours between the two I have with one being quite reclusive while the other seems to be constantly on show. Both are great feeders and finding their water dish becomes a fun weekly game.

Holothele longipes (ex H. sanguiniceps)- I got mine as a freebie and could not find a great deal of information on the species, after some adaption on how I keep my other terrestrials he now seems settled in a 10"x5" enclosure with 2" of substrate once he found his cork bark he seemed to burrow more. I keep the sub slightly moist and provide a water this. This is probably my most active T, In researching I found that these guys can be quite shy but mine appears the opposite and always runs towards the forceps rather than going into hiding.