Today in the Spider Room?

[Thekla]

Rehoused my T. cyaneolum today, and after loads of butt waving it's now sulking like a truculent teenager. There's just no appreciation with kids these days.



Oh, and I caught my D. diamantinensis doing some spider yoga the other day. That position must have one of those fancy yoga names, right?

 

[Marika]

A. eutylenum has closed off both entrances to her burrow, so maybe she's in premolt...or maybe she's just mad at me for giving her a new, substrate-free waterdish

 

[RonC]

My G. pulchripes decided to redecorate last night. Built a levee around its water dish without filling it and deepened the hide. Also been offering small meal worms which she ate one earlier in the week but has refused any more. Got a few very small crickets and dropped one in this morning and it lasted about 3 seconds.

 

[antinous]

Regular maintainence

 

[antinous]

Well saw that the flammifera molted and was ecstatic, but then that didn't last as I saw it had most of it's abdomen still stuck in it's exuviae. Spent the better part of 30 min slowly taking it off while the tarantula was running around it's enclosure, but I'm pretty sure I got it all off with the help of two pairs of forceps and a wet q-tip. Time will tell, but hopefully it's fine.

 

[Arachnophoric]

Had to fix a problem in my 6" female S. cal's enclosure - a decorative branch came unstuck from the glass and fell against the front door, keeping me from opening it lest the branch come toppling out, along with the hide and a likely angry African OW. Thankfully I had a top opening to get in and work with, or this would have been much trickier to tackle. She behaved herself and hid away in her den while munching on a superworm, allowing me to get to work without the hassle of having to dig her out first. 5 minutes and 3 sticks of hot glue later, I don't think it'll be a repeat problem. Didn't even dream of letting the entrance to that den out of my sight for a second though.

She was nice enough to let me grab a pic of her for my troubles.

Glimpse

• Arachnophoric
• Oct 21, 2018
• calceatum featherleg baboon tarantula featherleg tarantula stromatopelma stromatopelma calceatum

Haven't seen this girl in her entirety in at least 3 months. The only reason I knew she was...

 

[Marika]

G. rosea sling came to say hi...


...and G. pulchra loves food.

 

[antinous]

Flammifera seems to be fine, went to check on it today and it came running out with its bum in the air and wiggled it around at me. Probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen a spider do tbh

 

[WildSpider]

G. rosea sling came to say hi...
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...and G. pulchra loves food.
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Those pics of them are adorable! Wanna wave back to the little G. rosea.

Flammifera seems to be fine, went to check on it today and it came running out with its bum in the air and wiggled it around at me. Probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen a spider do tbh

Glad to hear it turned out alright, Phormic.

 

[RonC]

Last night my G. pulchripes I've had for a week decided to close the entrance to its hide. Don't even have a pet hole anymore . Had a fat black booty last time I saw it yesterday. Time will tell.

 

[Gaherp]

Paired one of the first female C. elegans to drop a sad this season for the second round, and took a little peak at a female elegans that is guarding her sac. Also fed a few of the little slings I have growing up of various species my misses held back for future breeders. Below is the pairing and the female elegans with her sac. Sling pics will be grouped with tomorrow's since I will be doing a lot of transferring tomorrow.

 

[Marika]

I decided to rehouse pulchra.

Her new enclosure:


"Ok, there's the garbage disposal unit."


"Darn it, I think I'm stuck!"


"Yep, my butt's too big."




"That's enough, no more pics!"


Already started to bulldoze under her hide. Came out to check if the waterdish was still in the same place, then went back to bulldozing.

 

[RonC]

Well mine decided to dig out of its hide so no molt for now I guess. Only in for one day. T was feeding on a small cricket.

 

[SpaceM]

Said goodbye to my first and only scorpion today (Heterometrus longimanus i believe although i'm not sure) in a part exchange for a juvenile P.metallica. Sad to see her go but had hardly seen her since I first got her 6 months ago so wasn't really getting much out of having it.

 

[boina]

My MM Tapi sanctivincenti went out to breed today. His new breeder was so impatient he immediately introduced him to his females when he brought him home and sent me a vid. Nothing came out of it yet, of course, so we will see.

 

[antinous]

Watching my Pamphobeteus sp. 'cascada' molting right now! It's really interesting to see all the 'prep work' they do before molting.

 

[miamc12321]

Bean, H chilensis, after fasting, and fasting, and fasting... Not only ate his piece of meal worm, but dragged it up and down his 'burrow' trying to decide what he wanted to do with it It was so hilarious! You really would have had to have been there!

 

[antinous]

Watched the entire process of the Pamphobeteus sp. ‘cascada’ molting while drinking wine...anyways, I’m pretty sure I have another male sadly...cool process to watch though! Also when I say ‘sadly’ it’s because I know I’m going to have a pretty hard time finding a female in the short amount I time I have him. That, coupled with the fact that I haven’t seen anyone else really have this species, is going to be a major headache..

 

[miamc12321]

Watched the entire process of the Pamphobeteus sp. ‘cascada’ molting while drinking wine...anyways, I’m pretty sure I have another male sadly...cool process to watch though!

also if anyone wants to venture a guess go right ahead
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Edit:
You've got a cutie there!
Bilbo decided to come out of Mt. Doom to eat. She snatched up the meal worm, and ran right back. I don't have any pictures of her because she is so elusive!

 

[Enrgy]

my half inch obt molted today after getting it October 1st with a molt already inside it's cup when i got it.(my dealer didn't have them long either) extremely fast growers i see lol...