I honestly couldn't choose as i really love Thrixopelma, but i like dwarf species also. The G anthracina looks like a pulchra with a red shadow and the P cochleasvorax is known as a Cuban snail muncher as snails make up part of their food source
I was just made aware of these, they look great and seem like very interesting T's. For my first bioactive setup I want a bromeliad with a bromelicola (and a white orchid setup for Hymenopus coronatus - Orchid mantis).
... so much cooler than bird eater.... snail muncher....
Really? I though they were meant to be fast growers like G. iheringi.
Kept mine with a bromeliad, decided to dig a burrow instead. Didn't even want to touch the plant in its enclosure. Rehoused it to match my other Avic-type arboreals with a piece of cork bark and it seems... happier? Makes a tube web a lot like my other Avics. I'll revisit this issue when it gets a bit older and bigger.
I guess define fast grower. Eats a lot, molts a lot. Grows maybe 2 mm or so in DLS per molt... Definitely molts more often than any of my "slow grower" genus slings. I've had it since mid-June and it's molted four times. Maybe it's grown a centimeter and a half in DLS since then... Putting my A. purpurea to shame in the slow-growth/lots of molts department.
Wow, and I thought my G. pulchripes was slow, my G. iheringi has moulted 4 times in the year or so I've had her but she puts on a lot of size with each moult, she went from 3cm to 4 inches in that time.
That's weird. Acteon usually grows like crazy. My 3 slings grew plenty in size with each molt. The male went from 2i to a huge 7"+ MM in a little over 2 years but the females have only reached 5 1/2 inches in 3 years - definitely slower growing. Sooo, if you believe in a study with an n of 3 your's should be female
There should be a 'jealous' emoji. If I ever see a female G. anthracina for sale I'm so getting that one... I've been looking for over a year and never seen one. The cajamarcas are on my extended wish list, too.
It took me 13 months of searching before i finally found a G anthracina and all was going well until i went to work and came home to find it was stuck mid moult, it took me 3hrs to free the 1" sling only for it to die 48hrs later. A few months later while searching tss i came across 1cm slings and i had to have one and now it's around 3.5" of stunningly beautiful suspected female that's yet to give me 1 intact moult.
"I hear the train a comin', rollin' round the bend..."
Mine too.