Today in the Spider Room?

[draconisj4]

Busy, busy, busy. Starting the second day of major rehousings, making new enclosures and trying to figure out where to put them. I need more shelves,lol. My house looks like a tornado hit it. There's cork bark, moss,substrate,etc scattered everywhere. Hot glue is stuck all over my counter and I burned my finger yesterday. The one bonus is that the rehousings went smoothly yesterday, high points were that my LP didn't kick a single hair and my C. fimbriatus moved into the catch cup like an obedient puppy dog and immediately started webbing in its new enclosure. Transferring some of my baboons today, I hope it all goes smoothly.

EDIT: Almost forgot, managed to finally reach the molt out of my P. auratus enclosure and it's a girl

 

[draconisj4]

So my juvie E. uatuman sealed its burrow a couple of weeks ago and today it threw out this. Blasted critter made a bolus out of its molt and threw in a bit of substrate for good measure. Darn thing is just going to keep me guessing as to what sex it is

 

[Rigor Mortis]

Last night in the spider room I decided to fill up my B. hamorii's second water dish since she's been sitting in it all week. From about early April to late May I kept two full water dishes in her enclosure but after she moulted I figured it wasn't worth the water to do that so I stopped. Anyway I thought maybe she expected water to be in the dish so I started to fill it and she took a page from my A. chalcodes' book and attacked the stream of water and jumped into the dish. She's usually docile as ever so it scared the daylights out of me, lol.

 

[Thekla]

My AF B. hamorii (she was my very first T) is preparing to moult again. Her last moult was in June 2018. It's fascinating to watch her laying down her moulting mat while kicking hairs like crazy to deter any predators. She normally never kicks hairs.

Edit:
It didn't take her long to flip after the preparations.

 

[Asgiliath]

-“Substrate dishes”
- a single loose cricket
-random moss on the floor
-my cat (please get out)

 

[Urzeitmensch]

My juvie L. Parahybana was rather shy since I got her, generally fleeing from feeders and every movement of her enclosure. Since the last molt she has was staying more out in the open, even giving me a thread posture once but still skittish.

About 2 month ago I got some male dubias from a T store as a freebie. I tried to feed them to my B. Harmorii as she is the only T with proper size but she ran from them. So all but one dubia died. Today I decided to try to feed it to my LP. It was nearly as big as the T so I crushed its head, expecting the LP to maybe scavenge it over night. I drop feeders with my tongs some distance from the T so it doesn't hurt its fangs on the metal.

Before I could even drop it, the T jumped at the dubia and literally ripped it from the thongs in the blink of an eye, immediately crunshing on it like mad. In the admittedly short time I kept Ts I have never seens such an intense and vicious feeding response nor in any video online. I would never have expected it from this specific T.

It was absolutely amazing!

 

[krbshappy71]

Gonzo doing a handstand at 1 a.m. S. calceatum, if it wasn’t for the cams I would declare them all pet holes.

 

[MainMann]

Traded my MM darlingi for a suspect female S. Javanensis! Gotta say, brown Ts are sooooo underrated!! Mine is soo beautiful! She's around 8-9cm DLS, and i housed her in a critter keeper with lots of deep sub for her to dig into. She hasn't made a burrow yet, but webbed up quite a portion of her enclo, and setup base under the corkbark i set down. Can't wait till this girl decides to dig down and never be seen again Would love to hear any feedback regarding her setup or this species' feeding habits!

 

[Marika]

1. Fill your waterdish with substrate. Repeat every time the dish has been cleaned and filled with water.


2. If you get caught, look innocent and deny everything.

 

[Asgiliath]

I’ve cleaned this water dish twice already today! I moved it to the other side of the enclosure, hoping they’re moving dirt that way while working on their burrow.

(a. seemanni BCF juvie)

 

[draconisj4]

Today was feeding day for all my inverts, so I opened my springtail colony to drop in some fish flakes. I keep them on very moist soil with a chunk of plastic plant so I can just pick that up and shake them off to wherever place I need them. I noticed something else crawling on the plant today. There's a tiny very fat spider living on it, little guy must think hes in heaven

 

[Asgiliath]

Just caught a. seemanni drinking!

 

[docwade87]

My B. Sabulosums which have been nearly pet holes since I got them months ago (1/4” in size) decided to show themselves last night and they are well over an inch in size. Time for Rehousing!

 

[krbshappy71]

S. calceatum sling was so busy eating yesterday she didn’t notice me taking a picture! I rarely get to see her out during the day, I was in awe. Sorry it’s a little blurry, I was taking it through the enclosure plastic.

 

[ColletteTZ]

I finally added a T. blondi to my collection!

 

[Tessa Clifton]

Mold infestation!! Hooray! I have 2 enclosures completely infested with mold, and 2 enclosures with mushrooms lol. Rehoused the two with mold last night, working on the other two, and of course, just my luck, they are all old worlds lol.

 

[malla]

Confirmed that my first T (B. albopilosum) is a female! Looks like I'll have many years with this fluffy little one

 

[MainMann]

Finally got an H. mac!!
The spider arrived earlier today, and might i say quite a bit smaller than expected so the enclosure is a bit oversized as well. Would love to hear feedback about the Ts housing'

 

[draconisj4]

I just got a good look at P. lugardi sling #2 that molted a few days ago. Poor little guy must have had a rough time with the molt. It's missing 2 legs on one side, 1 1/2 legs on the other and a pedipalp One leg is at a weird angle also. It's able to climb and is moving pretty well so here's hoping there weren't any other problems. I haven't been able to get a look at its fangs, and I don't have the molt anymore. Something else to worry about.

 

[lostbrane]

Rehoused my OBT today. I pulled perhaps one of the biggest bonehead moves in all my keeping thus far. I didn't realize I had a lid on the catch cup I was using. So I smooshed the poor girl. I seriously hope I didn't cause any sort of injury to her. . I looked, don't see any signs of external damage but no idea if anything happened internally. I am rather disappointed in myself. Didn't know I could be such an idiot. Should things take a turn for the worse, well...

She was so sweet though. Didn't throw up any threat postures despite me upturning her home and all she did was bolt around the tub. *sigh*

Update: As of right now it seems she’s just stressed out a bit. Which well I’ll take. She struck the brush when I got it close to her so I’ll take that as a good sign.