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P. Ultramarinus Female

 

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"The Wall"

Room is kept at 78 degrees at night, 80 degrees day with a space heater.

 

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P. Cascada Female, around 3inches. Both the male and the female are very "leggy" more so than any of the other Pamphobeteus species.

 

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Female P. Metallica. Getting big!

 

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Male P. Casada.

 

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A. Versicolor

 

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P. Cambridgei.

 

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P. Regalis

 

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I. Mira Female. Slowly recovering from what i think was a wet molt of some kind, the molt was on 12/9. Spent the first 5 days sort of "sliding" around on her abdomen, 2 rear legs dragging/useless. Took her first meal(prekilled dubia) on the 17th. Hasnt built a new burrow and just kinda of lays around but seems to be improving alot. She webs up the surface of the substrate and still looks scraggely. Is now eating live meal worms if placed right in front of her.

Both the female and the male I. Mira are the only two of my T's that were kept on zoo med clay excavator(70/30 mix with eco earth) and neither of them seemed to thrive at all. Both are now on coco fiber and the male is back to tunneling and trap dooring. I believe the female will be alright if she can get through the next molt. I think my mistake was not letting the clay mix completely dry out before putting it in the enclosure. It was slightly damp when it went in and even though the enclosure was never misted(maybe once) and the water dish was the only source of humidity the clay was still wet as soon as you scratched the surface a month later. Where as with coco fiber it will dry out on it own after you mix the brick. I don't know if the wet molt was because of the amount of humidity in the burrow or not but after that i switched both of them to eco earth. Maybe a species like I.Mira, where tunneling and trap doors are so engrained in there biology, will simply stay in the burrow even if the humidity is to high. Unlike other species that tunnel to seek shelter and regulate their environment.

 

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P.regalis Male, gettin big!

 

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A. Versicolor

 

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P. Everetti #1 pictures. Growth rate compared to Everetti #2 is astonishing. Both are molting within a day of each other, and this one is quickly on the path to doubling the size of the other.

 

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P. Cascada Female.

 

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N. Chromatus #1, 4 molts in 4 months.

 

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I.Mira Male, Back to lovin life on the coco fiber.

 

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P. Everetti # 2

 

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P. Everetti #1. Getting calmer with each molt.

 

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P. Cascada Female around 2 1/2"

 

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P. Everetti #1

 

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P. Cambridgei. Close to 4 inches now, was at most 1 1/2" in mid September.