Spermathecae pictures of tarantulas

Storm76

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metallica said:
be very careful with galleries like this. These stand or fall by the person who ID-ed the specimen before making the picture....... I allready see some problems in the ones posted there.
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Please elaborate? Those two people keeping that gallery up, are actually knowledgable and respected breeders over here - I'd like to know those "some" you already saw are wrong (assuming that's the case)?
In general, I'd agree to you regarding galleries, though.
 
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Regarding stickies: they must be produced internally, meaning derived from a thread here. We don't sticky the information if it's produced elsewhere in with respect to copyright protection;)

I would personally love to see some industrious members begin carefully cataloguing quality photos of spermathecae...lots of photo skills here and I think everyone would benefit from a little more attention to the physical details, anyway.
 
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metallica said:
C. fasciatum and B. angustum stand out.
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Thanks for the info, I'll check it out and contact them about it.

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At least I, personally, can only find -this- one from Bastian Rast that looks the same, just an older specimen and better angle? As for the B. angustum, I'd have to agree. However - since I'm not entirely sure of this - do spermathecae change a little over time with each molt until adult? Because one thing I'm aware of is that those pictures are from spider they own themself and it could be just a young specimen if that's true.

zonbonzovi said:
Regarding stickies: they must be produced internally, meaning derived from a thread here. We don't sticky the information if it's produced elsewhere in with respect to copyright protection;)

I would personally love to see some industrious members begin carefully cataloguing quality photos of spermathecae...lots of photo skills here and I think everyone would benefit from a little more attention to the physical details, anyway.
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Noted. Just thought it could be added to one of the other stickies else, as it was done with the "T escaping video" ;)
 
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metallica said:
I think this Bastian Rast made the same mistake.
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Now, that's quite interesting...I'm assuming you're referring to the fact that most C. fasciatum are not really C. fasciatum in the hobby? Chad pointed that out at one time, I remember that...

For the record, since I assume you haven't heard of him: Bastian Rast is member of the "DEARGE" which is the German Arachnologic Society, and has travelled to many habitats to check the T's out there for himself, like you did . He does a lot of things like prensentations on fairs, being chariman of one of the Swiss Arachnologic Societies and is a well-known expert in the hobby over here. While I know that everyone can make mistakes (G. Schmidt's books show that quite well :sarcasm:) I have to say that especially Bastian does his research thoroughly and I'm a little surprised.
 
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Storm76 said:
Now, that's quite interesting...I'm assuming you're referring to the fact that most C. fasciatum are not really C. fasciatum in the hobby? Chad pointed that out at one time, I remember that...
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Ooh, please ellaborate on this. What is C. fasciatum in the hobby? Has this been cleared up? More than two spiders or just a missed ID on the line we have?
 
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