Today in the Spider Room?

[Spinnenfritzi]

i gave my B. klaasi a little christmasgift today.

She is slurping on some scrambled eggs atm.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

My female P. ornata was paired a few months ago and now looks like a tick about to burst. I was finally able to get a photo. She's been expanding her burrow and webbing more than usual. Hopefully soon we'll get an egg sac!

 

[Smotzer]

My female P. ornata was paired a few months ago and now looks like a tick about to burst. I was finally able to get a photo. She's been expanding her burrow and webbing more than usual. Hopefully soon we'll get an egg sac! View attachment 463568

very exciting!! P. ornate and P. vittata are the best and I miss my females of those!!

 

[fcat]

I have several empty glass terrariums sitting around that I am going to have to move to the new house regardless if there's a spider in them or not, so I figured I'd get started on rehousing some of my queens.

I build my girl Bob, Pamphobeteus machala, a three story penthouse, albeit small which I feel bad about but I'm really not fond of the dimensions on these tanks. There's a reason I have them empty.

She's got a roof top terrace (she prefers to remain covered), a side yard, a covered breezeway, and a dark, moist basement to retreat to. I was mostly concerned about ventilation, well I always will be lol, so her basement is open on both ends, at the front right near the vent and the back left corner about where she's standing in the picture. I blocked the vents on the left side with moss before she could fill it with substrate, there will also be a water dish there.



The first acrylic sheet was cut to fit inside the lid, but I only had super glue and not enough real estate to get the glue to affix to the frame of the lid, so my boyfriend had to make a new sheet, cut to replace the lid entirely. I still need to figure out spacers between the acrylic and the lock tabs, but for now it's a very snug fit. Just for giggles I made it rain and the water runs off the rooftop terrace into the basement and the water dish corner while m'lady is unaffected on the breezeway


I dropped a cricket in, which she took immediately. I still need to place her 2 other water dishes (she needs one to poop in and one to put substrate in of course) but she has been loitering/eating right where I need to put one of them and I'd rather she eat and get settled. The other is a magnetic one for the right door, level with the rooftop terrace and to mitigate the 6-7" fall to the water dish in the basement, which she can access from her main/breezeway level on the right side as well.


Yes, she's as sweet as she looks. I don't know how big she is yet because she is yet to stretch her legs lol, but her molt is 6".


I went ahead and made the tank earthquake proof so the move doesn't undo all my hard work. The cork bark is wedged in, and sitting on cork bark posts/risers (I don't know what you'd call them) that are sitting on the base of the tank. The rooftop terrace could've been a floating platform but I did sneak in one supporting beam in the breezeway. I don't use glue/chemicals (I know 100% silicone for aquariums is safe, but who has time for that) except for the lid usually, so this was a 100% organic build this time.


Was this all a complete waste for a spider that barely moves? Probably, but I'm hoping she does seek out her preferred environment if I give her three different choices. I'll certainly be back if it looks like she's suffocating in there.

Wait... Enhance....


She found the basement!!

 

[TLSizzle]

My Sericopelma had a rough time after molting. So moved it to a slightly bigger enclosure and really made 1/3 DAMP. It's hanging out on that side now completely stretched out. Hope it bounces back.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Update on my N. chromatus that had the bad molt: She is doing leaps and bounds better. Unfortunately there's still a piece of the old exoskeleton attached to her, but it doesn't look like it's obstructing anything. I fed her last week and she ate fine, she's been climbing more and this morning her abdomen was looking way more normal. I think she just might be out of the woods now. I'm relieved to see it, but of course I'm still keeping a sharp eye on her.

 

[fcat]

Couple more rehouses today

Dante, D pentaloris - Holy smokes can she move fast. I finally got to see the freeze before the bolt tonight. I went with a voluntary rehouse because shes winding down for a molt bit didn't have enough room in her current enclosure to get it done. She's been a crazy webber since the sling vial.


Cyclone, P sp rufus - embarrassingly easy rehouse once I got him out. Had to go the flood method on this one. There was not one visible area left of his old pen. Didn't realize how much he had overgrown it. Hopefully I afforded him enough fixings to make a mess of this one too.


Enzo, L sazimai - at first disturbance this young lady slowly turned around to face the paint brush, then reared back and tried to go for it. A lot more of that. Took a while to rehouse her. No hairs kicked, no threat poses, just bitey.

 

[l4nsky]

Did a few rehouses and prepped for even more future rehouses as well this extended weekend. First up, I moved this female Phormingochilus sp. Sabah Blue into a new enclosure. She's heavy premolt, not paired. This is a rest molt for her after 2 eggsacks, but they can REALLY gorge themselves given the chance.


The next one moved was a paired female Cyriopagopus sp. Sumatran Tiger (who unfortunately ate her mate, first time in a long time since I've had that happen). She was paired pretty late into her molt cycle, so we'll see what the end result will be probably sooner rather than later.


Finally, I finished prepping some of the 0.5g and 1g enclosures I'm going to need in the next two or three months. A lot of grow outs are getting ready to graduate from the sling racks.

 

[8 legged]

Juvenile Brachypelma auratum in all it´s beauty / Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens 0.1


Grammostola pulchripes with the most beautiful knees / Thrixopelma pruriens juvenile


Tliltocatl vagans juvi...

 

[sparticus]

Super entertained this evening by the cyriocosmus sellatus sling threat posing at the fruit fly I dropped in there. Nothing quite as intimidating as a 1/4" sling showing off its fangs and big scary arms. Such a sassy little creature! It did eat, after making sure the fly was properly intimidated first.

 

[fcat]

It's so rewarding seeing pet holes surface - Xanthus, O aureotibialis


T verdezi pair - A lot of tapping going on since I moved them next door to each other, but she hasn't responded and they've been taking turns visiting the ventilation holes. He's there now, and she's now webbing them shut. Tonight is the perfect night because I am home alone and there's no one here to come barging in asking me how it's going, but she took all 3 crickets today.

 

[TLSizzle]

My versicolor sac mates are housed next to each other. If one grooms, the other grooms. If one goes on a walkabout, the other does. When one molts, the other is not far behind.
Is this all a coincidence or do they have some sort of hive mind? So cool to continue to see.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Dehydration is the largest killer of MM's IME as they don't predate well and tend to spend too much energy wandering. Luckily though, I've found that most MM's will readily scavenge feed. I've kept quite a few notoriously fragile males alive looooong past their estimated shelf life by placing prekilled roaches at the entrance to their hide every feeding day and making sure they're enclosure is on the moist side of the spectrum for the species to reduce their moisture loss.

This is super helpful as I’d thought of leaving prekilled for mine, but wasn’t sure if it was worth it. I will now. Thank you.

 

[TLSizzle]

Newly acquired C cyaneus molted a little over a week ago. Since, it has not shown much interest in eating. It's getting thinner than I'd like to see my Ts.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that it shows interest soon.

 

[MariaLewisia]

Super entertained this evening by the cyriocosmus sellatus sling threat posing at the fruit fly I dropped in there. Nothing quite as intimidating as a 1/4" sling showing off its fangs and big scary arms. Such a sassy little creature! It did eat, after making sure the fly was properly intimidated first.

Lol when I tried feeding my 1/8" C. perezmilesi its first pinhead roach it sneaked closer and closer like it was going to snack it... but then! Threat pose! Didn't matter that I had prekilled the roach, it was spooky as heck and needed to know its place! They are adorable when they try to be big and scary.

 

[Lucianoluxx]

It's feeding day for my Caribena Versicolor - as usual, prekilled cricket, the way she likes it the most Yet again she shows no mercy as she leaves behind the legs, parts of the body and just goes straight for the big head once more... It's really funny watching her take a cricket's head that's almost as big as her own head with her to a spot she finds suitable to destroy it at
("She" is still just suspected, so I apologize if you ever see me referring to my spider with other pronouns and confusing the hell out of everyone)

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Happy day, my MM ate. Comical he webbed his cricket onto the wall before eating it.

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[ATPikachu]

Well....yesterday I rehoused my T.vagans and H. colombia finally.....got more to do today.

Also, I found my B. chamela on their back but they're still there this morning. They're young and my gut tells me I've lost them. Gutted.

 

[MariaLewisia]

Hello, young madam. May I interest you in one last worm this year? It's very yummy!



Well okay then, I'll take that as a no. See you in 2024.

 

[NMTs]

Rehoused the last of my Phormingochilus sp. Sabah Blue group of 5 today. Lambda was the last to molt, but put on the most size, and is a confirmed female.

0.1 Phormingochilus sp. Sabah Blue - 2.5" DLS

• NMTs
• Dec 30, 2023
• juvenile female phormingochilus phormingochilus sp sabah blue sabah blue

This one is Lambda, confirmed female, about 10 days post-molt.
Rehoused her today and she was...

She did give me a little wave goodbye...


Also got some pics of Olive, my freshly molted T. pruriens. She's just gorgeous - who doesn't love a green T?

0.1 Thrixopelma pruriens - 4.5" DLS

• NMTs
• Dec 30, 2023
• 4
• female pruriens theraphosinae sp. "piura" thrixopelma thrixopelma pruriens

Olive, 3 days post-molt, looking appropriately sparkly and green for the season.