Tarantulas and Spiders

Nice set ups arboreal cages always look good. You using ten gallon ones here?

They are 2.5 gallon tanks. They seem small but they will hold a good size T.
My 4.5" P. irminia has lots of room in hers.
I think I'm going to make a 5 gallon soon for an OBT.

Nice lot smaller then I thought. I'm not sure why i keep thinking Ts need big space

Those cases are amazing!

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Yay! 3 new slings: B. smithi, B. boehmei, and Nhandu chromatus. Thank you, Mike! And thank you 3skulls for your shipping advice!
I'll have to make a thread for them tomorrow since most of the pics are on my camera and the computer mouse seems to have grown legs, I can't find it anywhere.

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Thanks!

Glad they made it there :)

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Those cages look sharp, skulls

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They do!

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Okay, I made a thread and posted pics
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=195412
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It's amazing how beautiful these guys are! I'm so terrified of arachnids and pedes I probably wouldn't have the courage to have one.. Just looking at them gives me chills, but I admire people for handling them. Man they are so pretty! :)

You should get one and change those feelings :p

A. geniculata
Molted the other day. First sign of adult colors. :)
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/05/apamysa4.jpg

The little cricket frog was out so I snapped a pic of her too.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/05/dezuve3a.jpg

Caught the male out this morning.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/06/9ymyzy9e.jpg

He started webbing up the back of his hide.

Versi colors are awesome. They make the real cool funnel webs don't they?

Yeah they will make tubes that they retreat to.
The colors in person are really awesome.

I think a versi is the next T i want

It suprised me a little learning the different colors of all the Ts. Way more variation than I ever thought

That's why it's so hard to just have one.
They are all so different. Even if you get the same species they can act different.

versicolor are cool because they look so awesome as babies.
Another reason why I like to get them when they are little. You can watch their color change as they grow.
I really hope I can get a sac from this pair. :)

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Caught the male out this morning.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/06/9ymyzy9e.jpg

He started webbing up the back of his hide.

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Wow he is gorgeous! Im lovin avics more n more every day. I was lookin at the color variances between individual versicolors, and it is amazing! Im thinkin i gotta have me one of those!! :D

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If you get a sac I call dibs on one lol such a wrong sounding statement

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If you get a sac I call dibs on one lol such a wrong sounding statement

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Oh my.

It will be a while before they mature.
I really want to do some tarantula photo shoots soon.
Need to come up with a way to do it.

Might have some more cool stuff coming in this week :)

Stay tuned :p

Haha I will stay tuned

Versi's are AWESOME! Mine is the most unique T out of our entire collection, I love his little silk borrows and tubes and he's just gorgeous. Feeding them is much easier because you just drop the roach onto their webbing, no chance for it to borrow.

He's got more personality than most of our others too. I play tug-of-war with him with stands of my hair, just tickle at him a little with it and he zips out and grabs it and we pull back and forth and he drags it into his web tube biting it. After a while he seems like he gets annoyed that it's not really food and goes and sulks. Then I actually drop a roach in for him and he seems SO happy, he like seriously prances with the roach in his mouth. I'm sure he doesn't actually have much fun with it, but it amuses me to no end lol.

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Adorable :D im thinkin if i cant get a good deal on 3 p.metallica slings at Daytona i may just go for a versicolor...they certainly are much cheaper :p

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Haha just a little :p

My versi that just recently shed. Finally got a green carapace but legs and abdomen are still blue and some red hairs are starting to show. IF my sexing is correct, I believe I have a male :rage::taz:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ljr/4versi.jpg

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Adorable :D im thinkin if i cant get a good deal on 3 p.metallica slings at Daytona i may just go for a versicolor...they certainly are much cheaper :p

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Get both!! And if you don't have long hair, I'm sure you can play the same games with unwaxed floss ;)

Here's a crappy cell pic of mine, he recently molted. I've yet to learn how to sex so no clue on that. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/07/8ery8adu.jpg for size reference, he's in a standard size peanut butter jar. He's getting a larger home very soon. Although he appears larger in comparison to the size of his home in these pics than in real life, odd.

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Sexing tarantulas can be a tricky task. With slings it is much harder since you have to be able to use its most recent molt and look under a microscope. With larger specimens it's much easier to spot with the naked eye. I'll use my pic as an example. You see the little flap that's circled? that's the spermathecae where the female holds the sperm after mating so this G. rosea of mine is a female. No flap = male.

You're welcome.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ljr/1rosea.jpg

P. cambridgei is starting to come out and explore her new home.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/07/u4ajuny9.jpg

It looks like my E. campestratus shed today :D all my babies are on a roll! This one's now a little over 2" and showing the pink hairs.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...mpestratus.jpg

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Non spider but I talk to you guys the most. I'll have to start a new thread.

Super Tiger Monkey Frogs!!!
Female
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/08/vavanape.jpg

Male
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/08/uvupupup.jpg

Hehe :o

With frogs do you just set communial housing?

Yep. In my "native" tank I have frogs, toads and salamanders all living together.

These new guys will live together in there own setup.
I guess you could house two species together if their care was the same.

Oh and they were about the same size.

Those frogs are adorable! :)

They are really cute in person.
Started a thread here
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?t=195633
If anyone wants to follow along.

My GBB took a roach off the tongs. I think he's my favorite.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/11/gytaby9u.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/11/a6y7eduz.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/11/e3are4e8.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/11/y8e5ygu4.jpg
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My B. vagans and B. boehmei both ignored theirs though. I just left them in there and figured they'd find them.

They do look really cool.
Going to be cool once he starts webbing it all up.

I have a package a Ts lost in the mail right now :/
I have been on the phone most of the day. I freaking HATE the USPS!!!

That would be stressful hopefully they show up!

That GBB is sooo pretty Mike!

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Btw, found out my wolf spider was a momma...http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/11/usedyzun.jpg

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The P. pederseni finally made it in!!
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/y3azu9a4.jpg

These little guys are quick!
First 2 I opened up ran up my arm before I knew it :o

Cute! Did you poop your pants a little? :p

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If they were a little bigger I might have :p

If and when I have to ship these guys or the OBTs out. I might need to wear a diaper :o

They went straight into bigger cups :p

Hey Mike and carlson. 1 of my vagans molted and my Chacos all molted.

Sorted my roaches and got all the spiders watered and fed. That's becoming a part time job :p

The C. darlingi are webbing up their cups and doing great!
A. hentzi looks like they are heading into a molt. As soon as they molt into 2i I think they will make it. I read that you lose some with this molt. :/

I added up all the Ts
Give or take a few with the A. hentzi, and the new ones that came in today, I'm at 175 :o

Here are some pics

My Wolf has a sac too :)
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/5upezyru.jpg

P. pederseni already trying to escape.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/azu2apad.jpg

P. cambridgei hanging out in her new house.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/abu7e9u8.jpg

H. lividium has one of the best burrows / webs out of everyone. She is hanging out at the top.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/e8ypy3uq.jpg

I'm still waiting to see a molt. Both the brachy's may be headed towards a molt since they didn't show any interest in the roaches i gave them. The vagans butt looks huge and has that dark spot so im thinking she should be due to molt soon. Shes dug herself a bigger hole and made a back entrance. I was happy to see the GBB chomp his roach down though.

Looking like this?
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/epejuhy4.jpg

I'll get a pic tmrw in the light. Um... Sorta looks like that, i think.

So... one of the pederseni worked his way out through the hole in the cup.
An hour later and he was found.

Had to tape up 180 holes. Ugh.

K sweet, hope mine does soon then! Seems like the roach I dropped in today is going ignored so see tomorrow an take it out.

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So... one of the pederseni worked his way out through the hole in the cup.
An hour later and he was found.

Had to tape up 180 holes. Ugh.

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That would have been a pain!

Haha yeah, it's been a long day :p

Yeah if your Chaco doesn't eat, I bet she is in molt or has molted. Give her a week if she doest eat it.