Today in the Spider Room?

[MariaLewisia]

Lol I've shared some in the past, but chopping and formatting it, uploading to a host site, and then embedding it here is, well.... A lot of extra steps lol.

Don't worry, I'm just pulling your leg! I do a lot of video editing myself and yeah, it's more work than you'd think, especially when it comes to sharing/embedding. Very much appreciate the ones you have shared though!

 

[fcat]

Jose Chung, Tliltocatl verdezi. Negligibly short of 2" after this recent molt so it was time for a new home. Was 0.5" in August!

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Well I guess he told me..
“I am a solid 5”, not 4 1/2”! Update my profile!”

 

[fcat]

Well I guess he told me..
“I am a solid 5”, not 4 1/2”! Update my profile!”
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Legs for days!

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Legs for days!

Yep. Startled me when I came home, seeing him in full pokie.

 

[ladyratri]

Legs for days!

That might even be weeks.

Can't wait for my dude to like, come out of his fortress... He's *still* hunkered down with his old exo 75 days after his maturing molt... 🫤 I thought by now he'd be driving us nuts seeing as he's housed right next door to my MF...

 

[NMTs]

This guy molted a couple weeks ago, so I figured it was time for a photo shoot.

1.0 Theraphosinae sp. Mishana, 3.25" DLS





And yeah, definitely male:


He's not mature yet, but I figure he will be this summer. All the ladies will be swooning, I'm certain!

 

[Mike Withrow]

I thought my Omothymus had some legs at that size,well one of them are but , wow that is some legs.

 

[fcat]

That might even be weeks.

Can't wait for my dude to like, come out of his fortress... He's *still* hunkered down with his old exo 75 days after his maturing molt... 🫤 I thought by now he'd be driving us nuts seeing as he's housed right next door to my MF...

Same here! My 5" versicolor still hasn't left his hammock/fortress. I'll have to tear siliconed corkbark to get to him so I haven't. I did put a bunch of her webbing at the entrance to his basement. He's since... rotated in there. Meanwhile I have had two *juveniles* hook out, the largest being 3.25" so far. After seeing a video of a male get rejected by 4 or 5 different females in one go only to be eaten by the last one, I am not pushing it. Also, there's a year old MM (year since maturing) at one of my LPS who Ive never seen wandering. A whole year!

My mail order bride Quasar (lest he forgets I bought her for him) is also unamused by his presence. She only leaves her hammock to spray poop all over the viewing windows.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

This guy molted a couple weeks ago, so I figured it was time for a photo shoot.

1.0 Theraphosinae sp. Mishana, 3.25" DLS
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And yeah, definitely male:
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He's not mature yet, but I figure he will be this summer. All the ladies will be swooning, I'm certain!

He's quite a handsome dude.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

I thought my Omothymus had some legs at that size,well one of them are but , wow that is some legs.

All the better to push her fangs away with, hahahahahaaaa.

 

[Shokoon8legs]

Sharing this 5 beauties, fed them today


P. Irminia (1.5cm)


P. Irminia (same t above) took down a roach


First meal of my D. Pentaloris after molt


B. Auratum (1inch) premolt, goodluck soldier🫡🫡


P. Metallica in premolt I think, not touching the roach and lethargic. I'll wait for tomorrow if the roach is still there (pre-killed it)


Lastly, my L. Nigerrimum as usual eating the food while not letting me see her/him

 

[fcat]

Huge start to the day... First time I have seen her out in all her glory in forever. I must've said E cyanognathus three times



Here's the baby I hope is a male



This is Elvira, the B emilia I had on bark chips layaway for a week. I barely see her, but when I do, she's standing in the same spot That is to say spends most of her time between her burrow and on top of the cork bark that covers it. She seems to like that spot. This was a happy dance, otherwise it's just toes. Somewhere along the way she makes a pit stop and puts debris in her dish.


Milagro, Psalmopoeus Ecclesiasticus. This poor thing got an overdue rehouse. Surprisingly the smoothest one yet. After an hour or so he(?) had already began webbing. When I carefully pulled the feeder plug out to give him a wax worm, he threat posed me!!! He loves it!!!


This little Phormingochilus sp Rufus is one neat little tarantula. He has already made a new labyrinth including an underground burrow/tunnel, and a little surprise hatch to pluck feeders from.

 

[Shokoon8legs]

Update on my pokie sling (1.75cm to 1inch)

Didn't touch the roach that I pre-killed and made some hammock of some sort. After will rehouse her

This is her/her enclosure

This is her/him chilling without the web hammock thing


This her enclosure after webbing


This is the side part of his/her enclosure yesterday. He/she didn't take the roach. You can see her web hammock. Built the hammock last few days


So he/she is in premolt I think.

 

[fcat]

Vlad the Hairkicker, Brachypelma boehmei, got rehoused and learned a new trick. He got so mad he hissed at me. Kicking in the front and in the rear.

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And Hank, who required two crickets before he decided the paintbrush wasn't food.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

Did some rehousings today. Skyler (D. diamantinensis) and Esmeralda ( T. pruriens) were put into new and improved enclosures today.

 

[NMTs]

Rehoused 4 T's in the last couple days...

1.0 Ybyrapora diversipes, penultimate male (Aether), around 4" DLS:

1.0 Ybyrapora diversipes - 4" DLS

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Penultimate male. I'm not a great photographer, but the colors on this guy look good even in my...

0.0.3 Ornithoctoninae sp. Ranong blue dwarf. These guys are probably the most defensive slings I've got, and that's saying something considering some of the species I keep. They're truly tiny terrors. For example, this one threat posed me so hard it ended up on it's back:


Eventually it cooled off:


This one wouldn't come out of the old vial without letting me know how displeased it was about it first. For scale, that's my fingertip in the background:

It calmed down, too:


This last one was the smallest and was just happy to get to explore:


I know there's been some conversation about whether or not there's a regular version and/or a dwarf version, but this trio just finished their third molts with me and they're still only 1.25" DLS max - pretty small.

 

[fcat]

One of the best days in the spider room

Quasar, My Lady versicolor was out. Historically, she stays in her hammock and refuses to use any of the 3 water dishes EXCEPT right before a molt. HOWEVER, I just placed my mini MM versicolor on top of her enclosure before I left for work yesterday morning. He is betrothed to a babe in NM, and I was hoping to get his gears going before shipping, to get some libations and tasty morsels before the trip. Keep in mind she has paid no attention to my first born, who still won't leave his molt hammock. Watered the webbing there, he drank too.

After I filled all three of her water dishes, and her hammock (where she usually drinks from, and where I figured she would head when I started banging around in her enclosure), she returned to that access point and started delicately tidying her webbing...

Does she look like she's going to molt the day after I send off the only male that may have ever piqued her interest?


Or maybe she's just thirsty...

This is a double whammy, a Mature Male Appreciation post and one worthy of "May I buy you a drink?" Which makes this gentleman classy af.


The gentle man part was a little concerning though. When I came home yestershift I saw that he was on the wall, with one pedipalp slightly raised off the wall. I checked on him later, same position, so I gave him time to rule out being asleep. Several hours later and no change in position, I started to worry. I dribbled some water along the wall. He was slow to respond and seemed weak, an abrupt change from his previous behavior of making sperm webs and loading. Honestly, the substrate looked quite damp, since all the webbing was wicking the water out of his dish, but I wasn't too concerned because he's got ventilation on every surface and I had only ever been dealing with the substrate drying out too fast. He refused food for the first time.

I guided him into the lid and turned it on its side, so I could add water allowing space for a puddle to form in the corner and under his mouth parts. His movement was coordinated but looked like a stop motion/claymation cartoon on fast forward. And again, he was cooperative and gentle, not his normal. We sat like that until he moved away on his own. About 10 minutes later he was seen preening.

While I had him in the lid, my boyfriend swapped out the substrate. I gathered up his webbing in the base section so it still felt like home but wasn't anywhere near the water dish. I hung up a crushed mealworm in the corner which you can see he did not take.

This morning. Drinking from a water dish. I didn't get close enough to see if he ate the cricket. I have never seen him drink out of a water dish before.

 

[l4nsky]

Changed the HEPA filters on the air purifier I run in my facility. They lasted a year and put in some work. Glad I wasn't breathing all that roach dust....

 

[ladyratri]

Tonight apparently was irminia day in my spider room.

Had our first sighting of mature male "Spunk" out of his web fortress:



Took him 80 days to come out -- he molted on October 29 -- and I can't tell if he only just discovered that he lives right next door to Irma, or if he has just been terrified the last 80 days that she was gonna eat him. Either way, she was somewhat conspicuously out as well...


How very neighborly they seem to be.