Today in the Spider Room?

[Spinnenfritzi]

Today is old world rehouse day.
C. darlingi rehouse went rather smooth. Except for the fact that she was determined to not leave her webnest. In the end i cut the webbing around it and took the whole websnugglebed with her inside into the new enclosure.
Oh well next is the OBT (may the rehousinggods be with me)

update:
OBT went bonkers... had to dismantle some furniture to catch it again.
i sweat a bit and want a cigarette but she is in her new home now.

small children, chaotic living conditions because we moved in our new home two months ago... you get the picture

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

When Ephebopus murinus, Kuyuri, matured, he decided he was living life on top of the ground now. As he was set up fossorial, his ground space was very limited with no hiding spaces and he threat posed to the point of almost falling over every time I fed him or refilled his water dish.

Having lived arboreal as a sling, fossorial as a juvie, and becoming a master turret builder as a sub adult, he now would be terrestrial as an adult. I opted to create his new home from Sacha’s old enclosure instead of buying a new one. It was a little larger than I’d like to give an MM, so I used the “fillings” to reduce wandering area. One side squeezed in by almost 2” with cork against the wall and the opposite side another 2” in with the top of a side entry tunnel (should he wish to go back underground), and a biggish bunch of plant.
I found him reliving his childhood.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Last night, I fed little I mira her first meal with me. I saw her 1-day trapdoor was more like a dirt blanket. (I believe NMT’s had made a comment about these being more like blankets, too)
When I opened her enclosure to feed her, she darted those toes back under the blanket and if I hadn’t seen her do it, I’d never have known there was anything there. I dropped a small mealworm in front of her door and waited. It was like a cat playing under a comforter. I saw a little bump under the blanket move halfway up and stop…then a little more and stop, then a bit more and the tiniest bit of toes came out…after another pause, she lifted the lid, grabbed the worm and held it high in the air like godzilla, tiny fangs spread and ready to pierce like Dracula, before disappearing back under the blanket. Video next feeding.

Sling’s First Trapdoor

• IntermittentSygnal
• May 20, 2025
• 3
• idiothele mira

I’m barely able to contain my excitement. This morning she was in the burrow I made for her...

More great news, I saw 18 months mature, Psalmopoeus irminia, Wei, eating the super worm I left him last night, after 3 months refusing. Yippee, go old man!

Edit: I forgot someone!
N fasc, Ipeorkun, was hungry enough to bolt to the top of her entrance when I laid my offering at her turret, but then just froze there with a foot just above the offering for hours. Being reminiscent of MM GBB, Kerü’s playing with his food that he doesn’t eat, I feared I had another MM. I was able to get enough of a fuzzy picture in the dark hole to see what I believe is a pedipalp unmodified. Still unsexed, but at least not a MM and due for an upgrade. Hopefully I’ll get a sexable molt then.

 

[l4nsky]

Fridays are when the majority of the big adults get fed at the facility. At last count, that's about 33 specimens over 5" DLS, so collectively they'll really burn through some feeder roaches each week, even though I tend to follow a small meal, high frequency feeding plan to ensure adequate hydration lol.

 

[NMTs]

Thrixopelma pruriens made a sac last night! She was paired on March 1st...



I love this species, can't wait for babies!

 

[Spinnenfritzi]

Possibly oot but techincaly it was in the spiderroom.

My Firesalamander nymph made it's first steps on land!
I am very proud of him

 

[spideyspinneret78]

Well, I was certainly surprised today! One of my spiders that I was convinced was female molted out into a mature male. I tried to molt sex this spider as a tiny sling and mistook male accessory organs as developing spermathecae under the microscope. I looked at his most recent molt under the scope out of curiosity, and he was in fact a very well endowed male. Definitely a reminder to keep checking when they're very small. Things can change drastically from one molt to the next, including size and shape of reproductive organs on very small slings. He's very bright and colorful as a mature male (D. diamantinensis).

 

[NMTs]

I paired these 2 last summer, about 11 months ago. The female molted without producing a sac in April. The male is old but still spunky, so we're giving it another shot. Aphonopelma moderatum:




I haven't seen this male make a sperm web in a long time, so I'll see if he makes a new one in the next few days and try pairing them again if he does. Fingers crossed she makes a sac this time!

 

[jennywallace]

Rehoused Paravaejovis spinigerus, now hiding in new hide! Fed my slings.

 

[jrh3]

11 months later she finally dropped a sac cyriopagopus schmidti ke bang. Not sure how many this species have in a sac but it’s bigger than a golfball right now.

 

[NMTs]

11 months later she finally dropped a sac cyriopagopus schmidti ke bang. Not sure how many this species have in a sac but it’s bigger than a golfball right now.
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Congrats!

 

[spideyspinneret78]

Edgar being naughty with his water dish. Seriously dude?

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Edgar being naughty with his water dish. Seriously dude? View attachment 497871

All hail the Royal mischief maker!