Today in the Spider Room?

[spideyspinneret78]

Theraphosinae sp. piura develop...
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Ch. Kaeng krachan are slowly catching up!
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That is just so amazing and so precious. When they're that tiny and start getting their setae, it's beyond cute. And just an amazing thing to see. They look like they're doing fantastic.

 

[CommanderBacon]

Today I added some tempered glass Kallax shelf dividers from Ikea and reconfigured the spider/comic book shelves to fit everyone on better.

I like how these shelves turned out:

I’ve wanted something like this for ages and it’s so nice to have exactly what I wanted for a steal!

I’ve got a few more areas to organize and then I’m going to have to wait until my males start maturing and go away.

 

[Rozwyrazowana]

Today I saw my C. elegans for the fourth time. For the first time since November. It's the second time ever when it voluntarily left its den, the other two sightings were unpacking and rehousing. Turns out it's a boy. MM to be precise. I got him as a freebie in July, he already had some coloring so he was after few molts. He's never thrown a molt out so I have no idea how many times he molted.

At the moment I have 9 tarantulas: 2 MM, 1 adult female, 1 juvie female, 5 unsexed juvies. I really hope for at least 2 females among the unsexed crowd. I'm waiting for 4 new enclosures for my growing Ts, hope they'll arrive on Tuesday-Wednesday because Thursday is a holiday here.

 

[8 legged]

Today I saw my C. elegans for the fourth time. For the first time since November. It's the second time ever when it voluntarily left its den, the other two sightings were unpacking and rehousing.

That inspires me and proves top care! I'm not a fan of digging for the animals all the time.

 

[Benson1990]

Changing my T albopilosum's water dish and got a shock at the sudden leap and speed from her, I had the dish up with the tongs and she literally leapt at it knocking it off the tongs...I honestly thought I was too far away from her for her to interfere with me but there ya go, gave her a morio worm after and she trotted off into her hide with it. I like to think of myself as overly cautious but still you can never be too careful with any of them.

I have actually noticed out of all 11 of my tarantulas she has the most spazzy behavior, very prone to quick movements and such.

 

[8 legged]

P. murinus (rcf) are reproducing... Spring!

 

[CommanderBacon]

P. murinus (rcf) are reproducing... Spring!
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Nature is healing.

 

[l4nsky]

I'll be prepping a 1.1 Phormingochilus sp Akcaya pair for cohab tomorrow. This guy already cohabbed with another female last week and it was a learning experience for sure. I tried pairing the first female under supervision and it was a nightmare. During the day they just act like rocks, during the night I was chasing spiders all over my room (the first female would bolt to the top of the safety tote and just leap, it was quite impressive). Ended up feeding her and then web swapping the male and female a few hours later. Next day, I sharktanked the male around 5pm and covered the enclosure with a black cover. A few hours later after lights out, I carefully removed the cover to find the female next to the MM in his deli cup. Female bolted to her hide when I released the MM, and when I came back to check on them at 5 am, the male was desperately trying to escape the enclosure, but the female was nowhere to be seen. When I pulled him, I noticed that his palpal bulbs looked discharged so fingers crossed. He made another sperm web a few days back, so he's ready for round two. Hoping he survives this time as well, so I can cycle him back through both females enclosures again. I also paired a female P. sp Sabah Blue last week using the same methods. She was definently interested, drumming on the MM's shark tank. When I checked on them in the AM, I found her chasing him around, having already removed one of his legs and pedipalps. Pretty sure that one went well as I was able to closely inspect the dismembered pedipalp and the papal bulb also looked discharged. He also made a new sperm web, so I'll probably cycle him back through the female's enclosure, but it'll probably end up being a feeding. God, they can be brutal.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

I'll be prepping a 1.1 Phormingochilus sp Akcaya pair for cohab tomorrow. This guy already cohabbed with another female last week and it was a learning experience for sure. I tried pairing the first female under supervision and it was a nightmare. During the day they just act like rocks, during the night I was chasing spiders all over my room (the first female would bolt to the top of the safety tote and just leap, it was quite impressive). Ended up feeding her and then web swapping the male and female a few hours later. Next day, I sharktanked the male around 5pm and covered the enclosure with a black cover. A few hours later after lights out, I carefully removed the cover to find the female next to the MM in his deli cup. Female bolted to her hide when I released the MM, and when I came back to check on them at 5 am, the male was desperately trying to escape the enclosure, but the female was nowhere to be seen. When I pulled him, I noticed that his palpal bulbs looked discharged so fingers crossed. He made another sperm web a few days back, so he's ready for round two. Hoping he survives this time as well, so I can cycle him back through both females enclosures again. I also paired a female P. sp Sabah Blue last week using the same methods. She was definently interested, drumming on the MM's shark tank. When I checked on them in the AM, I found her chasing him around, having already removed one of his legs and pedipalps. Pretty sure that one went well as I was able to closely inspect the dismembered pedipalp and the papal bulb also looked discharged. He also made a new sperm web, so I'll probably cycle him back through the female's enclosure, but it'll probably end up being a feeding. God, they can be brutal.

That sounds intense, and like a LOT of work! Hopefully she ends up gravid.

 

[l4nsky]

That sounds intense, and like a LOT of work! Hopefully she ends up gravid.

Lol it was definently intense and I was so glad I decided to stay sober when I went out to eat with some friends prior to the pairing lol. These will probably all be futile attempts as I have it on very good authority that the females of these species usually aren't successfully reproduced until their close to max size and all of my girls are very young, but I had the males and I couldn't find anyone to take them off my hands lol. I don't have high hopes, but you miss 100% of the chances you don't take.

 

[spideyspinneret78]

I just watched my juvenile female T. albo spin a molt mat, line it with urticating hairs, and flip on her back to start molting. No matter how many times I've seen this, or how many spiders I have, I'm always just amazed at this process. Such incredible creatures.

 

[Finikan]

My GBB sling is spying on me while I do maintenance. Crappy cell phone pic, incoming.

 

[8 legged]

Chilobrachys kaeng krachan:


Theraphosinae sp piura:


Rehoused some N. inceis:


And one hour of feeding time ;-)

 

[yetkin]

My "not any t bolted since 4 monts" record is broken for someone doing this for 10 months ı think it was not bad at all

 

[Tarantulafeets]

Went to feed lp.
Dropped the roach near the water dish, and the t started searching around the water dish with her feet.
She then turned around and pooped in the water dish, and went to the other side of the enclosure.
I dropped it in front of her, waited a while to see if I can get some pics, but then I went to clean the water dish. She decided to grab the roach while I was away, and when I came back, I had to fiddle with the lens because it didn't connect properly.
Ah, the joys of keeping a t.

 

[Rozwyrazowana]

I did 4 rehousings this week: 2 N. incei, 1 P. cambridgei, 1 B. hamorii. Rehouses went smoothly, I used the bag method with N. inceis and P. cambri.

Last week I wrote that my C. elegans molted to be MM recently. Today I found out that one of my two N. inceis is a MM as well. The other one is pre molt, they are sack mates, it would be a bummer if it molted to be another MM. The good news is that I tried to sex P. cambridgei, I don't feel very confident sexing molts, but I do think it may be a girl. I'm leaning towards a female with my other P. cambridgei, they are my favorites, so it would be really nice if both of them were girls.

 

[8 legged]

After I have mated my P. murinus, I will send the male tomorrow so that someone else can try his / her luck. During the pairings (two attempts) the male was easy to steer, but today ...
The devil in orange, it took me thirty minutes to put the OBT in the wet can. And I'm glad I don't have to unpack it ;-)

Good bye and good luck number 031...

 

[Lice1721]

Today is a sad day. 2 of my 9 tarantulas just molted and discovered they are both mature males so last molt for them . Also I was suspecting both of them to be females so it's super dissappointing and crappy feeling that I'm going to lose them in 1-2 years

 

[DomGom TheFather]

Super crazy rehouse!


Just joking. It's a little curly and my daughter helped me. Smoothest thing ever.

 

[8 legged]

Trichonephila inaurata madagascariensis 0.2 came today. One for my daughter, the other one is now in my office and started webbing where I want to have her
I´m happy!