Today in the Spider Room?

[fizox]

P. Irminia and P. Murinus dcf slings arrived today courtesy of Mini Beasts Canada. Stoked on these guys.

 

[Mike Withrow]

Lol they're not quite up to hazmat levels, atleast not normally lol. I let the lats go awhile between cleanings to get a lot of ootheca to reset my pinhead incubator in one fell swoop. Usually, they get cleaned every 3-4 days.

The dubia get spot cleaned frequently for deceased, but generally produce less waste then the lats (or go through as much food.... ). Plus the nymphs tend to live in the frass.

Do you have them on any heat? Are they being exposed to the 50's or is that just the nighttime outside temperature? Honestly, I keep things simple with both colonies and it seems to work. They get a commercial dry diet, big bowl of water crystals, supplemental heat via a thermostat controlled seedling heat mat (which I've actually had off for the dubia to curb the colony's growth for a few months), large amounts of top ventilation, eggcrates, no substrate, and kept clean.

I've got a heat mat on a thermostat I used during the last part of this winter in hopes that wouldn't stop breeding after I moved but,they did until it got warmer and I kept the heat off during the summer. I've not tried a commercial dry diet. I feed them salad greens and small pieces of fruit I buy from the grocery store that's pre cut and sold in 36oz deli cups every so often. I have a bin inside a bin with a screen I replaced the bottom of the inner tub with.
Top of the inner tub has a screen insert in it as well and the outside tub has ventilation holes drilled on the sides.
That was from an idea I picked off on YouTube and it does work but I'd really have to hunt for the right size opening in the screen to allow more of the frass to drop through and let the nymphs not. I still have to have a good look before I go to dumping.

 

[taranbandido]

My go to Avic morphotype knowledge repository is this thread:
https://arachnoboards.com/threads/avicularia-morphotype-identification.337729/

If instead you're just after general care information, they don't differ in care from other Avics in general and there is plenty of threads on their proper care here on the boards .

Thank you

 

[MariaLewisia]

Had a big scare today when doing routine maintenance and feeding. My recently moulted adult female Orphnaecus sp. 'Blue Panay', Eve, was sitting out in the open. Okay, that's odd. And she wasn't moving. I looked down and her legs were curled under her. Ten seconds of freaking out ensued before I could get her enclosure out into the light. I open the lid and...

... she stops grooming and comes walking, perfectly normal, like "Sup, got any roaches?". Phew... I throw in a "thank you for not being dead but still screw you for scaring me like that"-roach and close the lid. No more scares like that, please, my heart can't take it.

 

[taranbandido]

Had a big scare today when doing routine maintenance and feeding. My recently moulted adult female Orphnaecus sp. 'Blue Panay', Eve, was sitting out in the open. Okay, that's odd. And she wasn't moving. I looked down and her legs were curled under her. Ten seconds of freaking out ensued before I could get her enclosure out into the light. I open the lid and...

... she stops grooming and comes walking, perfectly normal, like "Sup, got any roaches?". Phew... I throw in a "thank you for not being dead but still screw you for scaring me like that"-roach and close the lid. No more scares like that, please, my heart can't take it.

When I see those YouTube videos stroking them with a brush, it makes me want to respond: It's better if the brush has softer bristles! .. Greetings

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Last night in the spider room…
After having rehoused my genic juvie into something with more roaming space, I got to see him run and tackle his cricket. Also good to see his legs stretched out more instead of pulled into his body.
In other feedings, I attempted to get a video of D sp Panama doing her ‘wave of legs’ stalking, but the cricket ran directly into her hide and didn’t come out. Maybe next time.

 

[8 legged]

Hogna radiata

 

[Mike Withrow]

Hogna radiata
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Not familiar with this species of Hogna,I've kept tigrosa in the past but they are common here.

 

[corydalis]

Today it was kind of a relief when I realized that my susp. male juv. C. marshalli is very much able to consume its prey after all. I was a bit concerned that he may have sucking stomach issue because he failed to eat, weeks after his last molt; took down his first cricket vigorously, only to release it hours later, hell he didn’t even kill the poor thing, messed up its legs and the wings, but that's all. Next day tried with a slightly smaller one - similar result, took him hours just to dismantle its head, then he tossed out the body uneaten. Let almost a week pass till I gave it another shot, this time with an even smaller cricket and thankfully he devoured it completely, then few hours later another one. Thank God he is okay, looks like he was just trolling.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Mold spotted in phampho tank.

 

[PanzoN88]

Finally rehoused the new additions that I got at the expo on Sunday. The Avic was simple to rehouse, the P. cambridgei was a pain to say the least, and the O. ornatus millipedes were obviously no trouble at all. Finished all the enclosures a 2 hours ago after a long nap and a dead drill battery. I’m actually impressed with how they look and I’m not even creative.

 

[8 legged]

All have left the egg sack!
Proud Hogna radiata mom with some tiny clones ;-)

 

[Mike Withrow]

Nothing too exciting today other than getting a good look at my O.schioedtei. legs for days and days really impressive.
I've moved their food up in size as they have grown. Tonight both were out and I dug in my roach bin and got them both a decent sized nymph "fed them as well" crushed the heads and dropped them in front of their burrows. Both these spider's are insane eaters especially the O.violaceopes. with in a few seconds of me putting the lid back on and the slightest twitch from the roach,the rest happens so fast it's hardly a blur.

Other than watering everything and checking on my tiny avic that's ready to molt soon and giving it some water to it's webbing as well as it's dish pretty boring afternoon.

 

[MariaLewisia]

Rehoused three Heterothele gabonensis ladies and this one was sitting out in the open. Grabbed my phone, turned on the flash -- nope! Only legs left. Still, some nice legs, they are.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Happy to see my E murinus sling out on her front porch most every evening. That’s as far as she’ll go, so I’m prekilling feeders and leaving them there, which is working well for us.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

Fed my 2” baby curly a mealworm beetle, it went very well!

 

[zsiciarz]

Two of my most secretive spiders showed up after molting.

My smallest Cyriocosmus elegans.

Cyriocosmus elegans

• zsiciarz
• Sep 30, 2023
• cyriocosmus cyriocosmus elegans dwarf tarantula elegans new world

Booster, an unsexed juvenile, a week after molting.

And a crappy phone photo of Pani Mroku (Lady of the dark) - a Psalmopoeus irminia female. 45 days since I last saw her.

 

[l4nsky]

Successfully paired Aphonopelma sp Dragoons and the male survived. Hopefully my second female molts soon and the male is still around. I'll also be sharktanking the Ornithoctonus sp Ranong Blue tomorrow night and hopefully pairing them the following night as long as I see some promising behaviour during their initial introductions.

I also have another 6 females of various species I'm hoping to pair before the end of the year. Looks like I'm in for a busy winter .

A little over 45 days since pairing, this 0.1 Aphonopelma sp Dragoons is quite comically large at this point. She's been eating 1-2 prekilled female lateralis a week that are the same body length as her and is being kept on indirect and constant belly heat at 80°F (she's on top of my incubator with a pulse proportional heatsource).


She has started moving more dirt this week and she does candle, so I'm getting hopeful.

 

[NMTs]

A little over 45 days since pairing, this 0.1 Aphonopelma sp Dragoons is quite comically large at this point. She's been eating 1-2 prekilled female lateralis a week that are the same body length as her and is being kept on indirect and constant belly heat at 80°F (she's on top of my incubator with a pulse proportional heatsource).

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She has started moving more dirt this week and she does candle, so I'm getting hopeful.

Whoa... Has she started asking for pickles and ice cream yet? That would be a telltale sign, lol. Good luck!

 

[l4nsky]

Whoa... Has she started asking for pickles and ice cream yet? That would be a telltale sign, lol. Good luck!

Thanks, first time trying to breed Aphonopelma spp so I think I'll probably need it. There's not a lot out there about breeding Aphonopelma spp at all. Most people seem to swear by a cooling period and I'm choosing to forego it, so brave new trails lol.

My concern is this is a WC female, although a well adjusted long term captive, and we're months past their breeding period in their natural habitat. I hope I can induce an eggsack without having to wait until possibly next year.

I also hope this second female Dragoons molts before the male kicks the bucket...