Today in the Spider Room?

[l4nsky]

Got a new shelf for all of my Ts a few days ago. Now they're all easily accessible and easily seen. It feels great to have them all together in one spot instead of scattered over several pieces of furniture.

Careful, getting organized is a very slippery slope towards acquiring more spiders lol. Speaking from experience, you'll soon have a room of shelves and shelves full of legs .



Anyways, I'm continuing to make a dent in my "must be rehoused" list. Last week, I rehoused 8 of my holdback Phormingochilus sp Sabah Blue. Now that they're out of the 5.5oz delis and in 0.5g's, I expect the little monsters to really start packing on the size.

So far today, I've rehouse a 0.1 Haplopelma sp Bach Ma around 4" DLS (@NMTs) into a haplotank:


The MF Homoeomma chilense I got last week has also been moved from her temporary deli to a small haplotank. She showed inclinations of wanting to burrow in the temporary enclosure, so we'll see if she ends up making one.



Finally, I also rehoused a 0.1 Phormingochilus sp Sabah Dwarf around 3.5" DLS and took the opportunity to get some good pictures of her without the glare/blur through her enclosure. She doesn't quite have her full adult colors, but she is gorgeous. Pictures don't do her justice.

 

[NMTs]

Careful, getting organized is a very slippery slope towards acquiring more spiders lol. Speaking from experience, you'll soon have a room of shelves and shelves full of legs .
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Anyways, I'm continuing to make a dent in my "must be rehoused" list. Last week, I rehoused 8 of my holdback Phormingochilus sp Sabah Blue. Now that they're out of the 5.5oz delis and in 0.5g's, I expect the little monsters to really start packing on the size.

So far today, I've rehouse a 0.1 Haplopelma sp Bach Ma around 4" DLS (@NMTs) into a haplotank:
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The MF Homoeomma chilense I got last week has also been moved from her temporary deli to a small haplotank. She showed inclinations of wanting to burrow in the temporary enclosure, so we'll see if she ends up making one.
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Finally, I also rehoused a 0.1 Phormingochilus sp Sabah Dwarf around 3.5" DLS and took the opportunity to get some good pictures of her without the glare/blur through her enclosure. She doesn't quite have her full adult colors, but she is gorgeous. Pictures don't do her justice.
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Nice - good way to spend the holiday! Hopefully my Bach ma male will be useful to you in the not too distant future - he's been spending a lot of time deep down in his burrow lately, so it seems a molt is coming soon. I don't think he'll mature this time, though.

The shelves are looking good, too, but I see some empty spaces - and the top counts as a shelf, too! We're planning a backyard remodel for this coming spring, which will include an insulated, ventilated, electrified, and plumbed "storage building" - nobody tell my wife that you don't really need insulation and plumbing to store shovels and ladders...

 

[l4nsky]

Nice - good way to spend the holiday! Hopefully my Bach ma male will be useful to you in the not too distant future - he's been spending a lot of time deep down in his burrow lately, so it seems a molt is coming soon. I don't think he'll mature this time, though.

The shelves are looking good, too, but I see some empty spaces - and the top counts as a shelf, too! We're planning a backyard remodel for this coming spring, which will include an insulated, ventilated, electrified, and plumbed "storage building" - nobody tell my wife that you don't really need insulation and plumbing to store shovels and ladders...

Make sure you get atleast two or three circuits in the future building, ya know, for the garden tools .

IIRC, you're Bach Ma is a few molts ahead of mine, so he might have to find a suitor somewhere else unfortunately.

As far as my empty shelves, they're mostly full now. Those pictures are weeks old lol. I don't however use the top shelves anymore. I had problems with those enclosures up there drying out too fast due to the air movement in my room, so I just don't use them anymore. I do have shelf mats on the top shelves though to block out most of the light.

 

[l4nsky]

Last rehouse of the day and you know it's something special when I have to break out the XXL catch cup lol.


This is my 0.1 Poecilotheria regalis who was my second or third tarantula and is probably around 7 or 8 years old (got her around 5" DLS). She's around 6.5" - 7" DLS when stretched out and CHONKY. She's been residing in a bioactive prototype 10g vert tank I made years ago. Sadly, the acrylic pane I used to replace the back (bottom) glass piece has warped over time, loosening the silicone in the process which has caused a lot of leaks. This is why we prototype though, to learn and solve problems like this.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

3/4” D sp panama reluctantly took a prekilled, small cricket last night, after a month of fasting. When she built the turret on one side of her hide and refused food twice, I expected an impending molt, but when she came out to investigate a water drop I left her, I decided to offer her food. She sat her 2 front feet on it for a full minute, then very, very slowly pulled it into her hide. May be waiting a while longer for that molt.

 

[NMTs]

Over the weekend I rehoused my recently acquired Liphistius cf yangae "Suwat" trapdoor spider into a deeper, 32oz deli cup. I provided a starter burrow, and sloped the substrate to mimic the hillside type of locations these are often found on. It took to the starter burrow, but hasn't done much excavating or started a trapdoor.


It had been sitting at the mouth of the burrow, legs out like so many of my other fossorial species do when hunting, so I dropped a cricket in last night. It wasn't interested, and went as far as kicking the cricket tumbling down the slope, so I removed it. Today I found out why:



I don't have enough experience with these to tell what premolt looks like, but now I know a little better. Seems like all went well, and I'm guessing that once it hardens up it'll start constructing it's burrow and trapdoor in earnest.

 

[MariaLewisia]

Nothing beats watching the L1s take their first prey! 3/4 of them have now eaten either a pinhead roach or a cut up mealworm. This one got a fresh decapitated mealie head still wriggling around and pounced on it. Ferocious little beast!

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

Not a T, but recaptured a Catageus sp. longispina that had been on the loose for a few days. I don't think I've seen my household members scream as loud as they did today when they found the thing crawling around on the floor, dehydrated and completely harmless in any case....

 

[TLSizzle]

Today in the spider room?
My albiceps escaped
Flame me if you want. I can't stop you.

The lid had the slightest rise in the middle and I guess it squeezed thru. The T is tiny. Less than an inch.. I feel like I got sucker punched in the gut. I loved that little thing and was incredibly excited to have it with me for years and years. I've let it down big time.

 

[l4nsky]

A very rare daytime sighting and an even RARER event during the husbandry rounds today...

My proven female P. sp Akcaya was out during the daytime AND SHE WASN'T HUNGRY. She's not on the skinny side, so I'm not too concerned, but it's definently not in charachter lol.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

AND SHE WASN'T HUNGRY

This is the first time I have seen a Phormingochilus not immediately destroy a feeder...

 

[ATPikachu]

Well today I had an argument with my G. pulchra about whether I was permitted to remove, clean and refill their water bowl....



Aaaand the murder bunny H. pulchripes murdered fresh water. Again.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Well today I had an argument with my G. pulchra about whether I was permitted to remove, clean and refill their water bowl....



Aaaand the murder bunny H. pulchripes murdered fresh water. Again.

It’s a thing. Mine will “chase” me as I move down the line feeding, watering and cleaning.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Rehoused A geniculata juvie. With all the Urs talk, I went in armored to the nines, but everything went amazingly smooth. No brush attacks, not a single hair kicked. He (suspected) has found his water bowl and like so many others here, is hanging out with one front foot on. (Pic before he found said water dish.)

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

Rehoused my Tapiauchenius rasti sling (now juvenile thanks to molting a few days ago).

 

[Asti]

I'm tempted to get a Theraphosa apophis sling. Maybe two. Thing is that at adult sizes I don't have a ton of room, but ... my slings are slow growing species and if they reach full adulthood healthily than I guess I could always sell a few for quite a nice buck, right? Right? Should I buy?

 

[spideyspinneret78]

I got Margarita ( A. moderatum) from an expo yesterday and she was very active and curious right from the beginning. Immediately started exploring, munched on a small cricket, and started constructing a burrow. By morning she'd burrowed all the way down to the bottom of her enclosure, and is now creating a series of tunnels. I'm really impressed so far! And to top it off, she's so stinking cute.

 

[CrazyOrnithoctonineGuy]

Had sling loss yesterday and it's an especially major loss this time; one of four (three purchased and one freebie) Cyriopagopus sp. "Bach Ma".

This loss actually follows the same pattern as two other sling losses I've suffered this year (a Stromatopelma calceatum slings a few weeks back, and a Chilobrachys sp. Kaeng Krachan months ago):

- All losses happened shortly after a seemingly successful molt

- The T ended up in a soft death curl as if dehydrated in spite of not having any reasons to be such (most substrate, and for the Chilobrachys and Stromatopelma I also misted the webbing to provide drinking water, something I do as a normal protocol for immediate postmolt Ts)

- Other slings of the same species housed in the same conditions all did fine (and are still doing fine)

- The abdomen was relatively flaccid in all three cases, but not shriveled up.

What's different about this particular case is that I observed some white secretions around the anus, indicating impaction, but that wouldn't fit with how flaccid the abdomen was.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

My new B. albiceps proved herself to be a little killing machine the other day. She's pretty timid and jumpy so I wasn't expecting her to go after prey like an Acanthoscurria. Great to know that she has a healthy appetite though.

 

[MariaLewisia]

My Kochiana brunnipes female FINALLY agreed to breed with the male I got on loan a month ago! He has tried his very best four separate times these last weeks but she's ignored him completely each time, even chasing him away once. I was almost inclined to message the keeper and ask if they wanted me to keep trying or if we should find another female to send him to, but then this happened! I'm very pleased.