Couple old-worlders

Hehehe - no she definitely won't be taking care of it. She saw the longipedum in action hanging on the screen lid making little tchhhhk noises (you could actually see it stridulating) and striking the screen at any overhead movement. I rehoused it with deep substrate (a seperate "puckering" adventure) and started a tunnel in the corner in the hopes it will take to burrowing once it's settled in. It doesn't take kindly to any husbandry efforts and i'm not at all anxious to get bitten so at very least a big ole pair of tweezers is gonna have to come my way!

http://www.madwag.com/exos/longipedum2.jpg
http://www.madwag.com/exos/longipedum3.jpg

That one just looks evil :shock:

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Originally Posted by green_man

man, that just creeps me out... im strangley enthralled though...
im actually considering.... lol

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I'm right there with ya man!

hey smulkin, i use a 2 liter bottle to catch them. just cut the bottom out and find something to cap it with. (cardboard or plastic lid) and use the bottle like a funnel. cool t's, looks like an asian type!

thanks
vaughn

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Hehehe - no she definitely won't be taking care of it. She saw the longipedum in action hanging on the screen lid making little tchhhhk noises (you could actually see it stridulating) and striking the screen at any overhead movement. I rehoused it with deep substrate (a seperate "puckering" adventure) and started a tunnel in the corner in the hopes it will take to burrowing once it's settled in. It doesn't take kindly to any husbandry efforts and i'm not at all anxious to get bitten so at very least a big ole pair of tweezers is gonna have to come my way!

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Yikes! Puckering is right! The, er, abdomen on that one is kinda cool with the stripes like a bee, but I'm still scared of the big hairy spiders. :shock: Give me a nice garden spider or lil bitty house-variety anyday and I'm fine, but I am pretty sure you'd find me at my girliest when faced with a free-roaming giant hairy spider. :D

Nice T's Smulkin.
The old worlds grab at my heart strings.
If you haven't yet, check into the Greenbottle blues.....
http://www.bighairyspiders.com/cyaneopubescens.shtml
Thanks
Rusty

Hey thanks all!

Vaughn - I'd read that and even had the bottle to do it - but the original tiny kritter keeper it was in was to small to get the body of the bottle down in there - will def work whenever I need to get it done with the newer setup though. Indeed Asian it is - turns out the species is kind of unclear as it is in the middle of being tacked down/reclassified (Cyriopagopus paganus -> Haplopelma Longipedum) - few different shades here too apparently as image searches under those or "Asian Chevron" show a good bit of variation.

Rusty,
Hehe yeah I loves those too - or the h.lividums (Cobal BLue)
http://www.bighairyspiders.com/cobalt.shtml LOL@"exceptionally aggressive"

i was going to guess some kind of haplopelma!

that bottle trick isn't going to work for my goliath much longer, she's around 7+ inches now!


vaughn

Hah! Whatcha gonna do then, Vaughn?