Talkenlate04 Picture Thread.

[funnylori]

Turn up the purple in your pokies a little more! Sheesh! What ever is in your water, I want it... Lol!

 

[Talkenlate04]

Gravid Regalis.

With one sac pulled today, a new female moved into the mothers cube. She is a big big lady! I think she might have 3 weeks or so till she drops give or take, but right now you can see the eggs growing in her pretty easily.

 

[verry_sweet]

Your thread is so much fun to drool over… I mean to look through

Good luck with all your pretty mommas!!!

 

[Talkenlate04]

 

[Anastasia]

Formosa Girl, maybe Gravid

I really really hope she is and she will lay a huge sac for you, but looks like she really in need of molt
good luck to you, poecifarmer

 

[Talkenlate04]

I really really hope she is and she will lay a huge sac for you, but looks like she really in need of molt
good luck to you, poecifarmer

The Formosa is 7" and 3 1/2 months past her last molt. So I hope a molt is not the case!!!

 

[Talkenlate04]

Very Gravid Smithi

Got a few shots of this girl while I cleaned her tank for the expected sac.

 

[Talkenlate04]

GBB molted.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Oh Metallica Girly is growing up! She molts again!

 

[Tunedbeat]

Man, that P.irminia is a beauty!
It seems like your P.met is growing quite fast too.

 

[venwu225]

can i ask what camera and lens setup are you using?

 

[Talkenlate04]

can i ask what camera and lens setup are you using?

Nikon D80 with the 105mm VR macro lens, and a bracket flash.
Just like this,
http://www.nikonlinks.com/images/macro_flash.jpg
And I am about to upgrade to the D300.

 

[T Frank]

How in the heck do you get them to sit still long enough to take their picture? I would have tarantulas running loose all over the house;P

 

[Talkenlate04]

How in the heck do you get them to sit still long enough to take their picture? I would have tarantulas running loose all over the house;P

Oh I have a C. Brachy girl that's still missing from a photo shoot, About one week later,

 

[DeTwan]

Wow Ryan, you are really having some success with your breeding projects... you environment must be perfect.

I was looking at your P subfuscas and they look so different from one another? Why do you think this is? One is a male the other a female? Are they from the same sac?

 

[padkison]

This picture cracks me up

 

[xhexdx]

Ryan, the method you use to tell if she's growing eggs...do you only do the flashlight thing with pokies or can you do it with pretty much any species?

Is it possible to see the eggs through the top of the abdomen...i.e. it looks rippled from the shape of the eggs?

 

[Talkenlate04]

It's a size change in the abdomen. In the later stages you can see the eggs, but thats within weeks of laying that I have been able to see them. Before that there is a widening of the abdomen in the back 1/3 which indicates egg production.

 

[Scott C.]

With one sac pulled today, a new female moved into the mothers cube.

Forgive me if you've answered elsewhere already....

What do you mean by this? Do you have a single set-up for those deemed ready to lay?

Great photos by the way.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Talkenlate04]

Forgive me if you've answered elsewhere already....

What do you mean by this? Do you have a single set-up for those deemed ready to lay?

Great photos by the way.

Thanks,
Scott

I have about 4 cubes that are the "ready to lay" cubes. They have the most perfect pieces of cork in them that have seemed to be the females favorite when making an egg sac. So when one sac is pulled. The female is placed in another tank, the old tank is cleaned well cork scrubbed and the substrate is replaced, then another gravid mommy to be is placed in that exact setup.
Part of the reason I am doing that is I am very short on cork, but that is about to be fixed soon, so there will be less moving like that when I have all my tanks setup.
It helps that I got more cages today too because all 4 of the mother to be tanks are occupied, and there are still 14 more that have to find room and board.