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Well, I went to the T store today to buy the spiders for my future research, and this is what I bought:
20 A. geniculata slings
5 Davus (Cyclosternum) fasciatum slings
All for the nice price of 20 euro's (1 euro = about 1 dollar)
But man, are they small! Like 1/4 to 1/2 ", must be about 2nd or 3rd instar. The geniculata's were all together in a box at the store (about all 900 of them...), the guy at the store took them out with tweezers and put them into a small deli-dish with paper towel. I thought he must have hurt some of them with the tweezers, but they were all in good condition when I put them into seperate containers. The research is gonna be with the geniculata's, the fasciatum's are just for my collection (very nice addition though....
). The guy in the store checked kinda rough if the fasciatum's were alive and well to do, and he fed and watered them. When I came home 4 of them were munching away on a cricket, and one had just molted so that one wasn't hungry yet. It surprised me that with all that disturbance and 2 hours in the train and on train stations (not very warm) they were eating already, tough little buggers!
My T-count is now 35, although I won't keep all of the geniculata's, will sell some of them back when I'm finished with research.
Time to do some cricket-breeding, will need lots of pinheads...
Joost
20 A. geniculata slings
5 Davus (Cyclosternum) fasciatum slings
All for the nice price of 20 euro's (1 euro = about 1 dollar)
But man, are they small! Like 1/4 to 1/2 ", must be about 2nd or 3rd instar. The geniculata's were all together in a box at the store (about all 900 of them...), the guy at the store took them out with tweezers and put them into a small deli-dish with paper towel. I thought he must have hurt some of them with the tweezers, but they were all in good condition when I put them into seperate containers. The research is gonna be with the geniculata's, the fasciatum's are just for my collection (very nice addition though....
). The guy in the store checked kinda rough if the fasciatum's were alive and well to do, and he fed and watered them. When I came home 4 of them were munching away on a cricket, and one had just molted so that one wasn't hungry yet. It surprised me that with all that disturbance and 2 hours in the train and on train stations (not very warm) they were eating already, tough little buggers!My T-count is now 35, although I won't keep all of the geniculata's, will sell some of them back when I'm finished with research.
Time to do some cricket-breeding, will need lots of pinheads...
Joost
