Tarantulas and Spiders

:tears: noooo! I just looked in on my T's and i've got a dead A. Minatrix. I thought it was going to molt last night it was laying on its back/side and now he is upright all balled up. I nudged it with a transfer stick a few times and got no reaction what so ever. :tears:

Awh no good!

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That sucks :(
Those are cool Avics.

Aww...:( Damon im so sorry to hear that . Was it a sling?

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I just looked them up. A.minatrix are very cool!! Im thinkin i might want one of those. I read that they are kinda rare. Are they fragile? Avics are just so gosh darn cool...im thinkin they are my fave genus.

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im still learning so i'm not sure how fragile avics are. the pink toe I had from my friend seemed pretty hardy. It wasn't a sling but it was the smallest one that I had picked up last Sunday in that lot. it was about 1.5" leg span. the rest are about 2"-2.5". I think it had the brightest pattern out of all of them.

In general, i dont think avics are fragile, but then again there are like 10+ species of avics, so there may be some less hardy ones?

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been doing some home work on the different types of Avics. heres the different ones that pop up on a google search. Theres not a lot of info on most with out digging for a good bit on each one specifically. there seems to be a lot of debate on identifying wild caught avics. the biggest problem being when they are shipped to the united states they are normally labeled just as pink toes and then the importer/wholesaler looks through them and labels them based on his/her knowledge. so realistically most of us have no clue as to what we have. we just take it for granted that the person that sold it to use knows what they have.


Avicularia affinis (Nicolet, 1849) — Chile
Avicularia alticeps (Keyserling, 1878) — Uruguay
Avicularia ancylochira Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil
Avicularia anthracina (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Uruguay)
Avicularia aurantiaca Bauer, 1996 — Peru)
Avicularia avicularia (Linnaeus, 1758) — Costa Rica to Brazil, the Pinktoe tarantula
Avicularia aymara (Chamberlin, 1916) — Peru
Avicularia azuraklaasi Tesmoingt, 1996 — Peru
Avicularia bicegoi Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil
Avicularia braunshauseni Tesmoingt, 1999 — Brazil, the Goliath pinktoe
Avicularia caesia (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Puerto Rico
Avicularia cuminami Mello-Leitão, 1930 — Brazil
Avicularia detrita (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil
Avicularia diversipes (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil
Avicularia doleschalli (Ausserer, 1871) — Brazil
Avicularia exilis Strand, 1907 — Suriname
Avicularia fasciculata Strand, 1907 — South America
Avicularia gamba Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 — Brazil
Avicularia geroldi Tesmoingt, 1999 — Brazil
Avicularia glauca Simon, 1891 — Panama
Avicularia gracilis (Keyserling, 1891) — Brazil
Avicularia hirschii Bullmer, Thierer-Lutz & Schmidt, 2006 — Ecuador
Avicularia hirsuta (Ausserer, 1875) — Cuba
Avicularia holmbergi Thorell, 1890 — French Guiana
Avicularia huriana Tesmoingt, 1996 — Ecuador, the Ecuadorian woolly
Avicularia juruensis Mello-Leitão, 1923 — Brazil, the Yellow-banded pinktoe
Avicularia laeta (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil, Puerto Rico
Avicularia leporina (C. L. Koch, 1841) — Brazil
Avicularia metallica Ausserer, 1875 — Suriname, the White-toe tarantula
Avicularia minatrix Pocock, 1903 — Venezuela, the Venezuelan redstripe
Avicularia nigrotaeniata Mello-Leitão, 1940 — Guyana
Avicularia ochracea (Perty, 1833) — Brazil
Avicularia palmicola Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Brazil
Avicularia parva (Keyserling, 1878) — Uruguay
Avicularia plantaris (C. L. Koch, 1842) — Brazil
Avicularia pulchra Mello-Leitão, 1933 — Brazil
Avicularia purpurea Kirk, 1990 — Ecuador, the Ecuadorian purple
Avicularia rapax (Ausserer, 1875) — South America
Avicularia recifiensis Struchen & Brändle, 1996 — Brazil
Avicularia rufa Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945 — Brazil
Avicularia rutilans Ausserer, 1875 — Colombia
Avicularia sooretama Bertani & Fukushima, 2009 — Brazil
Avicularia soratae Strand, 1907 — Bolivia
Avicularia subvulpina Strand, 1906 — South America
Avicularia surinamensis Strand, 1907 — Suriname
Avicularia taunayi (Mello-Leitão, 1920) — Brazil
Avicularia tigrina (Pocock, 1903) — Uruguay
Avicularia ulrichea Tesmoingt, 1996 — Brazil
Avicularia urticans Schmidt, 1994 — Peru, the Peruvian pinktoe
Avicularia velutina Simon, 1889 — Venezuela
Avicularia versicolor (Walckenaer, 1837) — Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Antilles pinktoe
Avicularia violacea (Mello-Leitão, 1930) — Brazil
Avicularia walckenaeri (Perty, 1833) — Brazil

I think they are labeled as more of a fragile species just because you need the right humidity vs venting.
When the animal becomes smaller and smaller its harder and harder to tell if something is wrong.

I lost a pederseni a couple of weeks ago. I don't think it's common to have one die out of the blue but once you start getting some numbers, its bound to happen here and there.

Look up Avicularia juruensis
I wouldnt mind a pair of those :)

HoFR, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzP6aVs30Vo

I want a Pamphobeteus Antinous. Saw on in a fb arachnid group, do want.

Can't play on mobile it says.

Bah, guy thought his T was dead and left it. Then it molted.

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Aragog(G.rosea) is lying on her back right now!!! Cant wait to get home tonight to see her all fresh n fluffy!! :D

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If I think its dead I leave it until I know its dead.

When I got my first T back in the early 90s. I had no idea spiders molted. I came home and saw it all deflated in a ball and was upset. Then I look over and saw her!! It freaked me out. I thought I had 2 spiders :o

Haha

Haha that would be a different way of learning about molting.

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Aragog(G.rosea) is lying on her back right now!!! Cant wait to get home tonight to see her all fresh n fluffy!! :D

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Haha, Harry potter right?

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Ezatly. Hubby and I are going to Hogwarts this summer at Universal for our honeymoon lol...:nerd:

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If I think its dead I leave it until I know its dead.

When I got my first T back in the early 90s. I had no idea spiders molted. I came home and saw it all deflated in a ball and was upset. Then I look over and saw her!! It freaked me out. I thought I had 2 spiders :o

Haha

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Aaa Richypoo....I always knew spiders molted. Ive been into "creatures" since i could talk. When i was about 6, i got my first hermit crab...with my own money lol. Them things fascinated me. Collected anything on 6-50 legs an put it in jars. Loved moths and butterflies,big spiders, cicadas were a favorite too. I still love hermies. :p I forget the first time i got a T tho.

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Tmi, but when i was very small, about 4-5, it was the year of the 7 year cicada. Our back yard trees were full of the shed exoskeletons. So, i would pull them off the trees and play with them in my sandbox. Put them on little matchbox cars n ride em around, make little armies of them, little houses for them, etc,. Really grossed my mom out :p

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Haha I used to spray paint them silver. They looked pretty cool :p

I started off with lizards, then fish and frogs/toads. I was taught to fear spiders then I got my T. So I didn't know much about them at all.

Oh and I forgot to post these last night.
Our turtles are getting big!

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Omg NOOO WAAAAYY!! I used to spraypaint them gold n silver too!!! Makes me wonder about that gold flower n leaf jewlry...:p

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I wanna take molts of mine an do the growth frames. Do you just freeze them till your ready to use them then set them up an their fine? Too bad my chaco has her molt hidden somewhere. I think that burrow is alot bigger than I can see lol an shes pushed dirt against the widow so I can barley see in there again ha

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http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/show...ct%29-in-resin

Here's a good guide for resin casting.

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Look up Avicularia juruensis
I wouldnt mind a pair of those :)

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yea those are nice. kinda remind me of the hunduran curly hair. all cute and fluffy

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HoFR, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzP6aVs30Vo

I want a Pamphobeteus Antinous. Saw on in a fb arachnid group, do want.

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I wish I was that lucky! I did the same thing the guy in the video did. turned it over and what not.

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If I think its dead I leave it until I know its dead.

When I got my first T back in the early 90s. I had no idea spiders molted. I came home and saw it all deflated in a ball and was upset. Then I look over and saw her!! It freaked me out. I thought I had 2 spiders :o

Haha

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I knew they molted but I have yet to actually see one do it. i've always seen the after math. lol but yeah its still in its enclosure with the lid on. I was kinda hoping it was just having some trouble.

Would the casting method work on molts? That turned out cool I have some scorps my grandma got me years and years ago

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Casting them in a resin is hard.
When a T that's about 2" and bigger form an air bubble around them when they go under a liquid.

There are some cool videos of Ts hiding in their water dish and coming out bone dry.

Molts are also very fragile.

Once they get bigger, I think people inject fresh molts and stuff the abdomen with cotton.

I read about doing the cotton on dead T's to frame them. My local store just deli cups their molts.

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I want a G. Pulchra too. :(

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I want a G. Pulchra too. :(

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Me too. Waiting to see a deal on one since they're like $50! Thats not a baboon tho, and i wanna try to focus on them for a bit until i know i have the room to expand my collection.

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I want a G. Pulchra too. :(

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see how easy it is to get hooked and end up with a hundred of them. lol Do you have any yet?

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see how easy it is to get hooked and end up with a hundred of them. lol Do you have any yet?

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Not yet, the wife says no till my school stuff is straightened out. First will be a versicolor though.

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see how easy it is to get hooked and end up with a hundred of them. lol Do you have any yet?

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No, he's married, remember?

Get hooked cuz their cheaper an take up less space and they look sweet and act sweet.

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G. pulchra are always around $50, maybe as low as 40 if you are lucky.

They grow very slow and read they can be hard to breed.

Awesome Ts.

The big ones I saw were gorgeous.

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No, he's married, remember?

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Lol so am I! My wife is as bad as I am when it comes to critters. She started the whole tarantula thing. I was afraid of them until she rescued a g. Rosea and I got hooked.

Yeah my girl is just as bad as me.

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Lol so am I! My wife is as bad as I am when it comes to critters. She started the whole tarantula thing. I was afraid of them until she rescued a g. Rosea and I got hooked.

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Wish my wife was. It would make expansion easier. Lol.

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Wish my wife was. It would make expansion easier. Lol.

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just gotta find what she likes and give in. lol My wife loves all the reptiles too but her cute fuzzy stuff always come first for her. I got to expand my reptile room by 2x its original size because I told her she could move her hedge hogs into the snake room if I could switch to the bigger room.

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Get hooked cuz their cheaper an take up less space and they look sweet and act sweet.

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I know i've been spending my boa fund on them. man theres so many sweet looking T's for under $20 and then you realize that you have $200 worth of T's in your hand standing in front of the bug vendor. Going crap which ones do I put back? lol

Hey im married too...my hubby is into snakes just as much as me, but not so much into the Ts. He thinks theyre cool and interesting but would never own one.

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I want a G pulchra really bad... and like a hundred other species :p I'm practically married, SO glad my bf likes spiders now and into the snakes with me. He almost flat out refused to let me get the first tarantula, he was REALLY afraid of them. Now he's always talking about species he wants to get.

I'm single. Muwahaha

My 12 year old daughter has been watching me mess with my T's from a far and even telling me she likes the way some of them look. well tonight she took the plunge. she asked me to hold one of the versicolors. so I opened the cup and she held her hand against the side. That little thing came right out and onto her hand. she just stood there and let it run all over her hand for about 2 minutes and asked me to put it back. She says she'll work her way up to handling the bigger ones. Shes a step ahead of me. lol I dont mind if they run up on me during a transfer or something but I dont actively go find one to hold.

Lol awesome. I hope to teach my nephew bout ts an snakes since my little sister is scared of them. Hes still way to young tho

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shes all into the leopard geckos and has a good understanding of the genetics of ball pythons and shes starting to learn her boa morphs. Shes my lil reptile geek like me. My 14 yo daughter can bust out a punnet square like noones business and she has a great understanding of genetics but she has absolutely no desire to be hands on with them. she used to handle the bp's but lost interest once she discovered boys :(

I like Leo's, just getting tired of things that eat on a daily basis. :/

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Ya daily bases feeding keeps me from getting a lizard

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you or at least I don't feed my leos daily. I put a worm dish in on Mondays and Thursdays. and once every two weeks I throw them a handful of crickets just to give them some exercise. lol Really wished i could feed my T's daily. I love watching them eat! but i'm a good boy I only feed them each 1 cricket every 5 days.

Thats what i love about Ts...theyre so low maintenance. Had leos...even bred them once or twice...dont miss em. The constant hourdes of crickets was a PIA. Not much of a lizard fan. Even tho leachies are wicked kewl.
I love my snakes n Ts. :)
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