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[Storm76]

I have a few of these species such as irminia, GBB, and versicolor. I see yours are mostly adults however where as mine are all still slings therefore I'm still a tad bit jealous Oh well, guess it's just a matter of power feeding and patience.

Not powerfeeding mine. I did with a few in the past, but adjusted that quickly. P. irminia grow pretty fast anyways, GBB's are (IMO!) on the slower side and take their sweet time and my versis were raised from sling within 1.5 years I think. Not fully grown yet. Patience is the most vital thing, not powerfeeding.

 

[Formerphobe]

Jan, I believe you have earned the title 'Enabler'. LOL

 

[Storm76]

Update on the A. geroldi slings and more...

Jan, I believe you have earned the title 'Enabler'. LOL

Apparently, yeah *puts title on shirt*


So the A. geroldi slings are doing well. So are my A. versi slings (the couple new ones) one of which molted a couple days ago. I also had a molt of my P. langenbucheri and I think it might be a MM if I saw that correctly. The little one doesn't want to come out of hiding yet, so I'll have to wait some before I can judge that - especially since the molt was totally torn apart and not good for sexing...*sigh*. Anyways, I guess you'll especially enjoy these Avics Michael

Unnamed, Avicularia geroldi sling, ~1.5"

Unnamed, Avicularia geroldi sling, ~1.5"

Unnamed, Avicularia geroldi sling, ~1.5"

Unnamed, Avicularia geroldi sling, ~1.5"

"Jewel", Homoeomma sp. "blue" female, ~5" - facial view

"Phaedra", Psalmopoeus irminia, adult female ~5"+ - that plastic plant to the right was once going over her corkbark - she corrected that!

"Phaedra", Psalmopoeus irminia, adult female ~5"+ - she let's me take a series of pics usually before she slowly moves back into hiding...she's so gentle for her species...

Thanks for checking on my pics

 

[papilio]

You guessed it Jan, so beautiful!! And it's amazing how massive your P. irminia is (or at least looks ) !

 

[Storm76]

You guessed it Jan, so beautiful!! And it's amazing how massive your P. irminia is (or at least looks ) !

She looks quite bulky on those pics, agreed. However, she isn't really. She had 3x adult Shelfordella sp. roaches after her molt and those are not that big as you know. I even saw one of them still in the enclosure moving, so she only got 2. Dunno if she's thinking about developing a dud-sac for me, though. Afterall, my T. violaceus did that twice already as you know


Edit:

Btw those who ask what camera I'm using, it's nothing special:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/Panasonic-Lumix-DMC-TZ7_Digital-Camera_review

 

[Balvala]

You're making my crave more Avicularia species to apply to my collection yet again. Gorgeous updates, my friend. I FINALLY, after nearly a month and a half, got my "Mystery Avic" to respond with eating my last, mature male dubia as a desperate attempt to gift her with some deserving meal after her normal habit of scampering away from the lateralis I normally offer.

 

[Storm76]

"Hera" - Chilobrachys fimbriatus out!

You're making my crave more Avicularia species to apply to my collection yet again. Gorgeous updates, my friend. I FINALLY, after nearly a month and a half, got my "Mystery Avic" to respond with eating my last, mature male dubia as a desperate attempt to gift her with some deserving meal after her normal habit of scampering away from the lateralis I normally offer.

I really like the genus, no matter how messed up it is taxonomically. Even if I take into cosideration how much will probably be re-classified once Fukushima is done with her work - they gorgeous, pretty calm arboreals that are a joy to keep and watch. And yes, I do enjoy raising them actually, too! I'm always smiling when someone is thinking about getting another species because of pictures I took of mine - it's a good thing! Glad your mystery Avic finally ate, sounds like she might have a hard time settling in - might want to think about changing the setup a little maybe? Just an idea...


For Michael especially, here the vid on the A. geroldi in the pics last page
[YOUTUBE]z6WWh_B5UuQ[/YOUTUBE]

And a couple pics of the A. diversipes...since I can't get enough of their colors you'll have to "suffer" now, too

And since I just had to see her, I decided to go ahead and carefully lure my Chilobrachys fimbriatus devil out - the female that is. "Hera" was slapping some, but not to bad. Didn't try to bite either, instead I witnessed her doing something quite funny looking: A weird "lightning fast triple slap". Anyone else saw that with their specimen ever? I want to find out if I got another oddball, haha - It's interesting that the female is calmer than the male, which was slapping, biting and even stridulating during rehousing, while this girl just slapped some and then went were I directed her to.

"Hera", Chilobrachys fimbriatus female, ~5" - she grew extensively that last molt and I'm not lying stating she's ~5" now!

"Hera", Chilobrachys fimbriatus female, ~5" - typical posture after getting lured out

"Hera", Chilobrachys fimbriatus female, ~5" - ...doesn't change when I had to do it again since she vanished back into hiding the moment I started recording a vid... grmbl

"Hera", Chilobrachys fimbriatus female, ~5" - too much flash on this one, but close-up I couldn't get any better picture as she was swirling into my direction when the flash went off...lol

Here's the vid on her - going to remind you I usually don't poke my T's out of their burrows if they don't come out by themself, but since I wanted to check on her anyways...oh well. You know how it is sometimes - my curiousity got the best of me, I admit it.
[YOUTUBE]EKw_CdDi_6o[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Balvala]

I've noticed this multiple slap behavior with a friend of mine's Ephebopus murinus who, and this may be obvious, has nearly webbed its entire ten gallon. I think this response is more of an intimidating deterrent, as if to say the rapid, heavy movement could be used to ideally frighten anything away prey or predator related when she feels threatened or merely bothered.

 

[macbaffo]

Hey Jan!
I've seen a multiple slap on my C. fimbriatus female too: 3-4 lightning slaps, 1 second pause then again 1 slap. (Maybe last one is meant to be her fatality ) But was too fast too notice if they were actually bites or not.

btw: by chance will you happen to be at Marbach expo the 26th October?

 

[papilio]

Love the video Jan, Thank you! :biggrin:
Have you seen Avic. "Boa Vista" over there? AFAIK we can't get them in the states yet, but if you can find them there I promise you won't be disappointed! They're exceptionally beautiful, deep green instead of the usual Avic blue.

http://static.fotoalbum.hu/picturepreview/2008/11-03/lgm/DSC02161_224453.JPG
http://img.webme.com/pic/a/achtbeine/avi_guy_80-90s_ray.jpg

 

[Storm76]

Love the video Jan, Thank you! :biggrin:
Have you seen Avic. "Boa Vista" over there? AFAIK we can't get them in the states yet, but if you can find them there I promise you won't be disappointed! They're exceptionally beautiful, deep green instead of the usual Avic blue.

http://static.fotoalbum.hu/picturepreview/2008/11-03/lgm/DSC02161_224453.JPG
http://img.webme.com/pic/a/achtbeine/avi_guy_80-90s_ray.jpg

Hey Michael,

yeah those are available quite easily over here. I'm not too much interested in them, though. Personally, I think they just look like a greenish color variant of a normal A. avic. A. juruensis on the other hand....*drools*...still want one of those, but no luck so far and currently don't have the finances either anyways.

The A. velutina for example look like these "Isla Maragarita" btw adult - quite colorful and certainly different from A. avic: CLICK - pay attention to the very subtle leg coloring and the red lines on the carapace. Awesome. Slowest growers ever though...

 

[papilio]

Hey Michael,

yeah those are available quite easily over here. I'm not too much interested in them, though. Personally, I think they just look like a greenish color variant of a normal A. avic.

Hmmm, that sounds disappointing ... from the online photos I thought it seemed like an evergreen version of A. geroldi!

A. juruensis on the other hand....*drools*...still want one of those, but no luck so far and currently don't have the finances either anyways.

The A. velutina for example look like these "Isla Maragarita" btw adult - quite colorful and certainly different from A. avic: CLICK - pay attention to the very subtle leg coloring and the red lines on the carapace. Awesome. Slowest growers ever though...

A. juruensis are deliciously beautiful ... first one I saw was a large sling Chad and I were doing a shoot of at his place. I had no idea at the time what a special spider it was! (He's always pulling spiders out of his collection which I've never seen before. )


(Just in case you should one day find your interest waning ...lol),








And yes, that A. velutina does look enticing! :biggrin:

Your A. diversipes appears a wonderful jewel!! My one diversipes was small (turned out male) and its appearance once past the marvelous sling stage was somewhat less than impressive.


Btw, any camera with a Leica lens is worthy of much respect!

 

[Storm76]

Hmmm, that sounds disappointing ... from the online photos I thought it seemed like an evergreen version of A. geroldi!

Sadly not. Those pics are reworked quite some and photoshop is a mighty tool as we both know. They do look like this actually: CLICK

A. juruensis are deliciously beautiful ... first one I saw was a large sling Chad and I were doing a shoot of at his place. I had no idea at the time what a special spider it was! (He's always pulling spiders out of his collection which I've never seen before. )


(Just in case you should one day find your interest waning ...lol),

You just HAD to do that, right? *eyes* gorgeous T!

And yes, that A. velutina does look enticing! :biggrin:

Your A. diversipes appears a wonderful jewel!! My one diversipes was small (turned out male) and its appearance once past the marvelous sling stage was somewhat less than impressive.


Btw, any camera with a Leica lens is worthy of much respect!

Yeah, I mainly got the A. velutina since I didn't have them in my collection back then and I saw their pics and thought "interesting colors - needs!" and that did it .
The A. diversipes still looks nice as adult I think - unless it's a male though. Agreed.
The Leica lens and the overall good notes the cam got during tests was the reason I got it. Worth the price. Only problem I have with it is the relatively short battery run time and the high grain on higher ISO. Except that, it's a great easy-to-use cam for someone that doesn't have the knowledge of, or the money for, the expensive equip like you guys have.

 

[Storm76]

New molts! Homeomma sp. "blue" now a MM for example!

In this vid:
Poecilotheria miranda slings x2
Chilobrachys fimbriatus "Ares"
A. diversipes
Homoeomma sp. "blue" - "Neelam" is now a mature male!

[YOUTUBE]44Cy9wQMD5M[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Storm76]

Some updates

I haven't posted in a while since the stuff hits the fan here. My whole personal life is basically going down the drain into nothingness currently. Thanks to the health-insurance company and the lawyers being slow as heck, I'm financially ruined now. Great, hu? Guess EfEmAl fits perfectly...might as well post them as long as I'm able to keep them.

Whatever, here's some updates on some species...

"Neelam", Homoeomma sp. "blue" MM, 6.5" legspan !!! Insane, right? He's looking awesome and he certainly dwarfs my female...

"Kenno", Brachypelma boehmei, juvie male, 2.5" - in heavy premolt

"Phaedra", Psalmopoeus irminia AF, 5.25" - after the last molt she's out way more often again, seeing her daily (and as you can see, Michael, not really that bulky )

Unnamed, Avicularia diversipes, 99% juvie male - still not sure about the sex of this one really - insane colors however and very defensive after the last molt...

"Moriko", Psalmopoeus cambridgei AF, ~6.5-7" - sorry for the glare, she always seems to sit on there when I check on here, seldomly somewhere else. She's still very skittish

 

[advan]

Nice adds Jan! I see your getting more Poecilotheria. A sac of A. juruensis was recently hatched in Europe. You should be able to find some slings. -Chad

 

[papilio]

Gorgeous spiders and pics Jan!! :biggrin:

I just got some more E. olivaceas and H. incei "golds". Will soon be getting diversipes too, and L. niggerimums.
Fun getting new spiders, huh?!

Chad said that both versicolors and diversipes will be moved to a new genus any time now!

I'm always thinking of you Jan, I know how hard stuff like that is.

 

[Storm76]

Nice adds Jan! I see your getting more Poecilotheria. A sac of A. juruensis was recently hatched in Europe. You should be able to find some slings. -Chad

Got them a while ago in exchange for my MM P. subfusca, yeah. Can't afford any new T's currently, not until this whole crappy situation is sorted out which will take quite a while I recon.

Gorgeous spiders and pics Jan!! :biggrin:

I just got some more E. olivaceas and H. incei "golds". Will soon be getting diversipes too, and L. niggerimums.
Fun getting new spiders, huh?!

Chad said that both versicolors and diversipes will be moved to a new genus any time now!

I'm always thinking of you Jan, I know how hard stuff like that is.

So, Fukushima making progress with the reclassification of the Avicularia genus I take it?


Feeding vid:
[YOUTUBE]yH9qq_25e0Y[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Storm76]

This (or soon enough, we'll see...) might be the last time I'm posting something on my pic-thread as I'll probably won't have internet for a while once the stuff hits the fan for real. Certainly not sure how long I'll have access which will take a while to get it back once that happens. Either way, I got some pics of a few of my precious here for you:


"Medeia", Acanthoscurria geniculata, 6" female - this girl is nuts: I came against the ventilation ribs today and she jumped the plastic plant next to it and bit it firmly...psycho much?

"Aurora", Avicularia minatrix, ~3" female - she's so reclusive, but very skittish if disturbed, probably my only Avic that tries to bolt out of the enclosure more often than any of the others I own...

"Moriko", Psalmopoeus cambridgei, ~7" female - I have confirmation: She's still a nutjob and totally defensive + skittish: Took this picture, then...

"Moriko", Psalmopoeus cambridgei, ~7" female - ...she teleported away from the flash and from this very picture, calmly walked back into hiding...talk about being psycho... :sarcasm:

"Ares", Chilobrachys fimbriatus, ~4.5" male - during eating...webbed the heck out of the enclosure by now and is way more bold (doesn't care if I move the cage or open it) and daring...

"Ares", Chilobrachys fimbriatus, ~4.5" male - different angle a beauty, isn't he? If this boy ever decides to charge at me, I'll be in for a nasty bite, because with his speed, I probably won't be able to avoid it. Hence, I stay far away from him with my hands He's stridulating ocassionally already when I open the enclosure...geez ::

Hope you enjoy. My collection is doing fine currently, thanks to the help of a breeder friend of mine who donated some feeders to me. So at least, my fluffies and devils are doing fine. On a sidenote the Poecie slings molted, one of the GBB slings molted and I'm still waiting for my E. sp. "red" and the B. boehmei to do so Patience is a virtue...luckily I have enough to watch instead while waiting...

 

[paassatt]

The webbing in the C. fimbriatus enclosure is crazy! I love it.