Today in the Spider Room?

[l4nsky]

She's tunneled practically to the back wall and I expect she'll start enlarging the burrow space tonight.

Yep, sounds about right lol. Night two and she's back at it.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

The C. sp Orange slings however have adapted quite well. MUCH better than the Birupes slings atleast.

I actually grabbed two Birupes slings yesterday and have to agree. All of the Chilobrachys I've got only took minutes to adjust and start eating, while the Birupes slings are just sitting in the open without doing anything. I'll give them a week or so before I declare an emergency.

 

[l4nsky]

So you want to be a breeder............ .

The 2i Sabah Blue slings will be coming out of the incubator tonight. It's not too much work because it's a small eggsack, but I'm mentally preparing myself in case the A. sp Dragoons decides to lay..... Speaking of which, we're still in the same pattern. I removed all the burrow spoil this morning, fed her again, and I'm expecting her to keep going with her renovations overnight.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Got a new T yesterday. I've lost two in the last two months and I wasn't really intending on getting a new one, but this juvenile B. albiceps was impossible to resist. Easiest rehouse I've ever done, this is one gentle spider. It feels good to be getting a new one after my losses.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Got to see my E murinus today!
:-D

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

I actually grabbed two Birupes slings yesterday and have to agree. All of the Chilobrachys I've got only took minutes to adjust and start eating, while the Birupes slings are just sitting in the open without doing anything. I'll give them a week or so before I declare an emergency.

Well, one of them actually ate (live pinhead), now let's hope it will continue to do so and the other will also eat.

 

[sparticus]

I saw the T. Rasti! There has been visual confirmation of the spider, doing spider things. I caught it sneaking out to throw a bolus in the water bowl- it even froze long enough for a picture while it decided if it needed to bolt.
Hope I get to see it again someday.

 

[8 legged]

I saw the T. Rasti! There has been visual confirmation of the spider, doing spider things. I caught it sneaking out to throw a bolus in the water bowl- it even froze long enough for a picture while it decided if it needed to bolt. View attachment 453811
Hope I get to see it again someday.

I love them!

 

[l4nsky]

Did the dishes. Outside of making hundreds of sling enclosures, this is definitely my least liked chore in the spider room.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

Rigel was an angry little beast when I rehoused him in a larger enclosure today. He made a very elaborate system of tunnels in his sling enclosure. I gave him a lot more substrate in his new habitat so I'm excited to see what he'll do this time.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

Well, one of them actually ate (live pinhead), now let's hope it will continue to do so and the other will also eat.

And the T gods decided to punish me for my optimism by having one of my S. calceatum sling trio (which have all molted recently) die out of nowhere....

 

[8 legged]

Hogna radiata doing a great job!


Cyriocosmus leetzi 0.1 and Sahydroaraneus raja 0.1 - both adult


Young Brachypelma auratum / Theraphosa blondi 0.1 or just some legs...


Young Tliltocatl klaasi / Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 0.1


Classic Heterodon nasicus, adult male and a Candy Hognose (hopefully laying eggs the next three days...)

 

[MariaLewisia]

Psalmopoeus reduncus 1st instars darkening up for their moult into spiderlings. The whole C. elegans sac of 200+ EWLs I pulled the same day as this one just stopped developing and then perished for unknown reasons, so I'm very glad these have remained healthy with minimal losses.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

And the T gods decided to punish me for my optimism by having one of my S. calceatum sling trio (which have all molted recently) die out of nowhere....

And then, in another whiplash, the T gods decided that the other Birupes sling should start eating as well. Live pinheads seem to do the trick for this species IME.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Concerned for the wee ones hydration, as she hadn’t eaten in 3 weeks, I dripped some water on the right side (facing) of her web. Admittedly, I may have overdone it slightly. Her response to my dripping:

i think that’s a bit dramatic..

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

The second Birupes sling ate again (this time a dead prekilled cricket the same size as itself). Will feed the first one again tomorrow.

 

[zsiciarz]

Lost one of my two Cyriocosmus elegans freebie slings. Lost as in totally gone, no trace in the substrate. I guess it died a few weeks ago and decomposed entirely. The other one took down prey immediately, I'm glad that one is doing well.

 

[ATPikachu]

My H. pulchripes attempted to murder water

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

My H. pulchripes attempted to murder water

G iheringi did the same last night, then recoiled all her legs on one side like a half death curl…then walked away a few minutes later.

 

[ATPikachu]

Nice!

My H. pulchripes is the least chill one I've ever come across. Hoping it'll mellow a tad as it ages....maybe.