I've been blessed by so many pictures of different Tapinauchenius recently and they're all so beautiful! Your Se7en is stunning! I really need to get some slings for myself this spring.My now 5.5" DLS Tapinauchenius Polybotes, Se7en, molted last week but was waiting on my new phone for a proper pic....
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She's so chill, always out on that web curtain just hanging out...
Yh you should, they are a sleekly gorgeous sp.I've been blessed by so many pictures of different Tapinauchenius recently and they're all so beautiful! Your Se7en is stunning! I really need to get some slings for myself this spring.
. Just waiting on her next molt...
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First thing I saw when I walked into the tarantula room was this! I was 75% this geniculata was a female but turns out I was wrong, he just has big accessory organs. Oh well!
Edit: two seconds after posting I noticed that one of my six Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus slings had also moulted. He's the only confirmed male of the bunch and he's now almost double the size of most of his sacmates at 2.5" DLS. Just crazy growth rate compared!
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Go Stevie you can do it !!!
(there isn't a cheer leader emoji so celebratewill have to do )
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First thing I saw when I walked into the tarantula room was this! I was 75% this geniculata was a female but turns out I was wrong, he just has big accessory organs. Oh well!
Edit: two seconds after posting I noticed that one of my six Psalmopoeus ecclesiasticus slings had also moulted. He's the only confirmed male of the bunch and he's now almost double the size of most of his sacmates at 2.5" DLS. Just crazy growth rate compared!
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First thing I saw when I walked into the tarantula room was this! I was 75% this geniculata was a female but turns out I was wrong, he just has big accessory organs. Oh well!
Actually been waiting quite some time, it's been looking about ready to pop for weeks now.
What a name!Twilight Sparkle, 0.0.1 Caribena versicolor, freshly molted and extracting all the juices from the discarded exoskeleton. The first molt since I've had it here.
I haven't had a chance to sex the molt from this Thrixopelma longicolli yet, but I did manage to get a couple unobstructed pics of it today. Around 24 hours of hardening up and some nice colors are coming in:
My little dorados must be sac mates of yours - the last one to molt is just the same size and showing the same colors. Also, really sorry to hear about the diversipes - it sucks to lose one like that and makes you feel helpless.More moults, my Davus sp panama Opal moulted no pic though as she's in her burrow and not showing herself atm n no chucking the moult yet but i can see in her tiny window she has moulted... I say she
My Theraphosinae sp Dorado Don Juan moulted and is starting to show some of that gold on the carapace, moult was 1 inch but way to small for me to mess with so still no gender. View attachment 467221
And unfortunately I have to report one failed moult, Skittles my sons Ybyrapora diversipes male had a real bad moult last time he moulted loosing 3 legs and buckling 2 more poor little man held on he still ate and drank and I was hopeful he would correct himself on the next moult, 2 days ago he made a web matt i had been checking (hourly) to see if he was ok but late last night I found him, he had popped the carapace between the carapace and abdomen but didn't get any further and is gone. Gutted doesn't cover it I struggled so hard with this little man and still don't understand what went wrong and why he had the bad moult in the first place , but felt I should say because successful or not was a moult in my care.
Thank you he was doing so well till those last 2 moults we had raised him from sling and he had never had problems before he had a nice viv with good ventilation corkbark moss leaf decor to web too waterdish, he always ate well and I saw him drink alot, I really am at a loss.My little dorados must be sac mates of yours - the last one to molt is just the same size and showing the same colors. Also, really sorry to hear about the diversipes - it sucks to lose one like that and makes you feel helpless.
pretty cool I think
So sorry for your family’s loss. Not sure how old you son is, but that’s got to be hard to break to him, too. It sounds like you did everything you could. It is frustrating to not have an explanation. :-{
Thank you, he is 9 and it didn't go down well, like me because skittles carried on eating drinking and even hunting for himself the bairn expected him to correct the bad moult. We buried skittles this morning and I think it helped the bairn let go a little. He understands though sometimes things happen, it's better to cherish the time we got then dwel on the time we didn't.
