Today in the Spider Room?

[spideyspinneret78]

Ichabod, my T. violaceus, molted into a MM today. He's gorgeous, but I'm sad because I know that his time with me is limited. I am stunned how fast he matured. I got him in March at roughly 2in, now he's about 3in DLS and mature. I'll post a picture of him once he stretches out. I might try to find him a girlfriend if the opportunity presents itself. This little guy has always cheered me up during the dark times of quarantine.

 

[Vanessa]

Ichabod, my T. violaceus, molted into a MM today. He's gorgeous, but I'm sad because I know that his time with me is limited. I am stunned how fast he matured. I got him in March at roughly 2in, now he's about 3in DLS and mature. I'll post a picture of him once he stretches out. I might try to find him a girlfriend if the opportunity presents itself. This little guy has always cheered me up during the dark times of quarantine.

I have a freshly matured male too. Aren't they just lovely?

 

[spideyspinneret78]

I have a freshly matured male too. Aren't they just lovely?

Truly. They're amazingly beautiful. The lavender hairs are so pretty! And those long legs too!

 

[Adrinium]

my a. iodius has a tendency to climb out of the enclosure when i open it and this time she wasn't budging to go in so i get my catch cup and it has a lid and i put it up against her and i'm like dang why isn't she going into it and wow.. I forgot to take the freaking lid off lmfao

 

[jrh3]

Since one of my N. Incei gold molted yesterday, hopefully I will get to sex it when I get home from work.

Update, its a female!!!

 

[Nevermore Exotics]

I was visited by the supervisor while feeding today.

 

[Cyriocosmus]

I'm raising 4 Cyriocosmus ritae and Cyriocosmus aueri slings each, they're tiny. The ritae seem to do very well and I can see them quite often. Just today I realized that they probably molted again.

 

[Teds ts and Inverts]

I saw my C. lividus (Cobalt Blue Tarantula) out of its burrow today. That in itself is remarkable.

Oh and my Red-Fang (P. haematostoma) slings molted....

 

[Cyriocosmus]

Soo.. I bought a (sub?)adult Cyriocosmus ritae today. I love it, it's beautiful. Well, I already have four 3i slings, but it'll be some time until they reach maturity. And since I have an adult now, I promised a friend that he'd get one of the little ones when they're grown up. Our friendship pretty much is based on spiders, haha.

 

[jrh3]

I would have been housing 6 new slings Last night but FedEx decided to delay overnight package due to too much volume In Memphis.

 

[Enceladus]

I did my first rehouse ever yesterday! It's something I've been nervous about and anxious for over a year now, just mentally prepping myself for all horrible possibilities. Luckily it went super well! I've uploaded some (poor quality, admittedly) photos to show my low tech way of doing things.

I have what I believe to be a C. schmidti, about 2.5 - 3 years old (sex unknown) named Moksa. It was pretty overdue for a rehouse. It was in one of the smaller Critter Keeper enclosures with only about 3 inches of substrate. I moved it into a Herpcult enclosure with about 5.6 - 6 inches of substrate. I really love the Herpcult enclosure, btw. I was extremely anxious and nervous to do it. Over the last year or so I've watched all the rehousing fail videos and read the worst case scenario stories. Because of all that, I went very slowly and methodically (probably took place over the span of 2-3 hours). Luckily it went pretty well.

I slowly dug out (with a combination of plastic spoon, wooden soup spoon and wood chopstick) most of the substrate from the old enclosure until it was a small layer at the bottom and the T was mostly exposed. At that point I carefully put a toilet paper tube (covered at one end) into the enclosure with the opening right up to where the T was curled up. I then just walked off to give it some quiet and when I came back 20 mins later, the T was all the way in the back of the tube near the closed end. At that point, I just placed the tube into the new enclosure and within an hour, the T was out and down in the starter burrow I made for it.

I woke up this morning to a pet hole (the T had expanded its starter burrow into an actual tunnel and can't see it anymore and lots of notifications on my motion camera app since Moksa spent much of the night (when not digging) out and exploring the new enclosure.

I've been stressing about this moment for quite some time now and happy its over (and happy Moksa is happy and loving its new enclosure!)



Forgot to attach a screen shot from my webcam!

 

[Cyriocosmus]

Yesterday, my Cyriocosmus elegans emerged from its burrow after over 2 months underground. Well, its legs were poking out and gladly taking a roach. I guess it molted, but it always keeps its molts down there, so no way to tell.. Pretty sure its an AF by now, since I've had it for about 2 years and it was already subadult when I bought it. Haven't seen it so many times since then.

 

[Rozwyrazowana]

Yesterday, my Cyriocosmus elegans emerged from its burrow after over 2 months underground. Well, its legs were poking out and gladly taking a roach. I guess it molted, but it always keeps its molts down there, so no way to tell.. Pretty sure its an AF by now, since I've had it for about 2 years and it was already subadult when I bought it. Haven't seen it so many times since then.

Mine has a burrow in a corner so I see him even when he is there. I've had him only for 3 weeks now, but I' haven't seen him out. When I offer live pray he grabs it, but without leaving his burrow. He has a nook in his burrow where he keeps his molt and what was left after his meals.

Exciting news from my spider room today is that all 5 tiny slings I got as freebies 3 weeks ago (C. elegans was one of them) has already molted. I think that my C. elegans is more of a juvie than a sling because it already has almost adult coloration. It has around 1/2" DLS so it's not that small for C. elegans, but tiny compared to others.

 

[CommanderBacon]

By some miracle, both of my C darlingi were out and about when I woke up this morning:

My male (left, about 2.25" dls) had buried himself for a few weeks, but the female has been out and looking for food every day. She is a little ahead of him on growth.

 

[KenNet]

I had the day off due to the Corona, so I was spot cleaning all the enclosure, feed the spiders that were hungry and rehoused my female Haploclastus devamatha into a more natural looking enclosure. It was a pleasure to see that she so quickly found her way up the slope and into her new burrow. I hope, and think, she will enjoy the new space. I took some pictures, but it looks so wrong, both with the perspective and the colours. I will give it a try again with the pictures when she has settled in.

 

[dangerforceidle]

My Homoeomma chilensis ate her egg sac. Yep, finally after three years of successful pairings and cooling them over the winter in my expensive incubator, I got an egg sac from one girl. It was perfect in every way and, with only a few short days before I was going to take it away to incubate it, she ate it. I am absolutely devastated.

I also lost my MM Grammostola pulchripes - only four months shy of being mature for four years.

I'm so sorry, Vanessa.

It wasn't today, but my mature male Harptactira pulchripes passed two years mature on the second of August. Two years! I went to get a photo of him, and the one time I want to he's not in his normal spot on top of his web sheet spanning the entire enclosure. He took a mealworm today but I couldn't lure him out.

 

[Royalty]

I gave my G.Pulchra a new waterdish. It dabbed a foot in then I could see it "fanging" the side. Not really like biting but like it was testing it. It dabbed the feet in more and is now perched on the pile of subtstrate. I can already tell what it is thinking

 

[KenNet]

Just finished a new enclosure for one of my Poecilotheria females. I think it turned out quite ok. What do you guys think?
I will rehouse her in a few days.

 

[scooter1685]

When I checked on my spiders this morning, I saw that my Ephebopus uatuman had blocked the entrance to her burrow. Haven't seen her do this before, so I'm hoping it means she's going to molt soon. This will be her first molt since she arrived 7 months ago. She's already about 4.5 inches, so hopefully I can find out if she's actually a she!

 

[Royalty]

When I checked on my spiders this morning, I saw that my Ephebopus uatuman had blocked the entrance to her burrow. Haven't seen her do this before, so I'm hoping it means she's going to molt soon. This will be her first molt since she arrived 7 months ago. She's already about 4.5 inches, so hopefully I can find out if she's actually a she!

Good luck! I have a couple slings that have recently closed their hidies. I think it is funny when they make a whole mountain. I would take a pick but I would have to open it and I do not want to disturb it if it is in the middle of molting.