Well, I mentioned in my last post about molting, have had two recently. First off, the G.aureostriata molted through the night on Sunday 1st June, and then the following Thursday, the 5th June Junior the B.smithi molted as well.
Both spiders have grown massively, and I am especially pleased with Junior for two reasons.. first off he has regrown his missing pedipalp and secondly he now actually looks like a little Red Knee as his proper orange colouring is starting to shine through on the knees.
As for webbing, the G.rosea has put down a load of silk this last couple of weeks, webbing up his water bowl as well as his hide, building a small construction of dirt and web to the side of the entrance. Also the H.maculata has now completely barricaded its self into the cork tube, again with dirt and webs, and has been ignoring all food for about a week now so fingers crossed hes in pre-molt!
Saving the best for last I have also received 4 new tarantulas today!
First one is a lovely Poecilotheria rufilata (Redslate Ornamental) which is a large juvenile, amazing yellow and blue striping on the underside of the front legs, next up is an adult female Ceratogyrus bechuanicus (Rhino Horned Baboon) who has a great light grey carapace with the namesake horn coming out the top with darker grey markings elsewhere. Would be very interested in breeding with her once she has settled into her new home and established a new burrow. She has already laid down quite a bit of webbing, covering up half the floorspace in her tank. Lastly two little ones have arrived, both are Haplopelma sp. "Vietnam Earth Tiger" possibly 1.5 to 2cm leg span and are little dark speed demons ;)
Some photos will follow later on tonight
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Thursday 12 June 2008
Wee update
Since I moved house I dont yet have the internet in yet so updates havent really been happening, but I can ow check from the library so as soon as I can I will be updating properly in the next few days.
Loads happening, couple of molts, lots of webbing, lots of eating... all good!
Loads happening, couple of molts, lots of webbing, lots of eating... all good!
Thursday 29 May 2008
Monday 26 May 2008
The Tarantula Mapping Project
This has come about after I had an idea earlier in the week to utilise Google Maps to show the geographical distribution of our favourite beasties.. the tarantulas.
To find out all about it I have set up its own blog which is viewable at http://tarantulamaps.blogspot.com
Please feel free to head over to have a look :)
To find out all about it I have set up its own blog which is viewable at http://tarantulamaps.blogspot.com
Please feel free to head over to have a look :)
Saturday 24 May 2008
P.imperator catches a locust
First time I've managed to catch her eating, she has grabbed prey while I've watched but never eaten
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Fangs is Female?
After I caught that photo of Fangs the P.murinus on the side of the glass last night I put a close up on Arachnoboards to see if I can get a guess at its sex, so far the opinions show that people are thinking that shes female :)
Will wait until I get a molt from her to hopefully confirm it 100% though
Will wait until I get a molt from her to hopefully confirm it 100% though
Tuesday 20 May 2008
P.murinus (RCF) hiding on cork bark
Pterinochilus Murinus (RCF) - Usumbara Red Baboon (aka Orange Bitey Thing ;)
Pterinochilus Murinus (RCF) (Usumbara Red Baboon) "Fangs"
Well, the post arrived nice and early today so had a chance to take my time and get him properly settled into his new home before work.
Decided within a minute that Fangs would indeed be an appropriate name for him.. I put his shipping container inside the new enclosure, opened the lid and with the long tweezers carefully opened up the packing with him inside After he took few seconds to think about things he bounded out with fangs on display and proceeded to attack the packing. Tried him on a cricket which he pounced straight away. On checking him later the cricket was gone and hes off exploring.
Being semi arborial he has been set up in Skittles's old exo terra (after a good clean out and new substrate) so he should have plenty of ground room as well as height, which he at first impression seems keen to use as he headed off up the plant at the side to hide in. i've also offered him cork to climb around, as well as a flowerpot hide so he can decide himself if he wants to go up or down :)
Decided within a minute that Fangs would indeed be an appropriate name for him.. I put his shipping container inside the new enclosure, opened the lid and with the long tweezers carefully opened up the packing with him inside After he took few seconds to think about things he bounded out with fangs on display and proceeded to attack the packing. Tried him on a cricket which he pounced straight away. On checking him later the cricket was gone and hes off exploring.
Being semi arborial he has been set up in Skittles's old exo terra (after a good clean out and new substrate) so he should have plenty of ground room as well as height, which he at first impression seems keen to use as he headed off up the plant at the side to hide in. i've also offered him cork to climb around, as well as a flowerpot hide so he can decide himself if he wants to go up or down :)
Sunday 18 May 2008
Large brown cricket molts
This cricket which I put in with the scorpion hasnt been eaten yet, however when I checked it just now I was lucky? enough to find it mid molt, heres a photo of it nearly finished, you can clearly see that it now has full wings on it.
Saturday 17 May 2008
Skittles passes away
Sadly I found my Avic "Skittles" curled up dead last saturday (10th May). Although he had been off his food for a bit he had seemed to be quite happy the last few days so came as a bit of a surprise to find him like that, tried ICU just in case but no luck. :(
Going to clean out his exo terra this weekend with new substrate for its new occupant who is arriving next week (An OBT)
Going to clean out his exo terra this weekend with new substrate for its new occupant who is arriving next week (An OBT)
Spiderman grabs a locust
Thats his third feeding this week, decided to give him a juicy locust for a change, this will do him for a few days now
Thursday 15 May 2008
Spiderman catches a cricket
Here we have my Grammostola Rosea (Chile Rose) tarantula called Spiderman catching a nice big juicy brown cricket :)
Thursday 8 May 2008
Augacephalus sp. "Mozambique" (sling)
Just arrived today (cheers Phil!)
This is about the best photo I could get before he went into his new home as he seems to be quite quick at running, and good at going up as well as along ;)
This is about the best photo I could get before he went into his new home as he seems to be quite quick at running, and good at going up as well as along ;)
3rd Smithi Molted
Thats the 3rd one in 3 days ;)
This one is certainly larger than the other two, I'll get some photos on tonight, just waiting for the post to arrive before I go to work..
.. posts been .. spiders here and well :)
This one is certainly larger than the other two, I'll get some photos on tonight, just waiting for the post to arrive before I go to work..
.. posts been .. spiders here and well :)
Wednesday 7 May 2008
Snip Snip
P. Imperator guards his home, hes actually dug right down to the bottom, I think I will get him a deeper tub tomorrow give him some more space to burrow
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