Today in the Spider Room?

[IntermittentSygnal]

Earthquake today. Can home to check on my T’s and found P sp Dominican purple, Guabensex, still prepared for aftershocks.

 

[NMTs]

The littles are turning black and will molt to 2i any day now:


Preparations are underway!

 

[corydalis]

Molted a month ago, she had 3 lateralis since, but still appeared a bit on the skinny side, so last night as she finally decided to linger outside rewarded her with something more substantial. Honestly, I was a bit worried, that those times, when she showed herself more frequently were over, so I took a hellova lot picture of her. Just a few of them:

 

[l4nsky]

New piece of kit for the facility. I've always viewed this as a luxury purchase, but with some of the fossorial projects in the works this year, such an item has become a necessary investment lol.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

I lost A sp Columbia, Cuchavira. I’d noticed a few days ago what appeared to be a molt in a well webbed section of her enclosure. That or her scrunched, it was hard to see. I didn’t see it move in the next couple of days and assumed that was the molt and she must be in the back of the cork stretching, but I didn’t check until today. Four of her feet were deformed and two others were still stuck in the molt. She had obviously been struggling while hardening to still get out. When I removed her, those last two feet came out fairly easily. Her suffering and death were completely preventable if I had looked closer sooner and realized she needed help. Knowing I looked in on her (and all the others) a couple times a day every day, but didn’t take that extra couple seconds to turn the enclosure around to check crushes my heart.

 

[Motherofspiders112707]

We went to an expo today, and I have a wolfie in my collection again! Her name is Rhadium