Couple old-worlders

So sick and all I couldnt help but drag my butt up to the Pitt Reptile Show. No lavendar corns for Smynx despite the inquiries - but I did stumble across another Sudanese Plated Lizard (first I have seen since we got our son his almost a year ago) for $18. Swooped that up.

Then I spied spiders, (scorps and 'pedes too yes) and had to have a closer look. For about $12 each (enlclosure understandably included hehe) I picked up a couple:

http://www.madwag.com/exos/starbursts.jpg

"Starburst Baboon"


http://www.madwag.com/exos/newasians.jpg

sold as "Asian Chevron" - still researching ID on this one.


Both fast and "don't fuss with me" critters - hands off. I swear when I was moving the "Asian" it shrieked - either that or I am sick enough the auditory hallucinations are kicking in.

man o man .. how many of those creepy crawleys do you have now :shock: ;). They look good anyway. Should've let me know about the Pittsburgh show, i'dve wandered up with ya.

You know in my addled state I thought of that on the way back when I thought it occured to me how 70 cut over your way. Yes, I smacked my forehead for you - DOH!

It's my understanding that taratula's can "scream", or at least they "scream" when you kill them. I know I felt deaf after I killed one. (I no longer kill spiders, unless it's a brown recluse or a black widow in my home. I've paid for that, some years later my room was infested with wolf spiders and I got bit a lot.) I did not expect to find a large tarantula in my house in my dirty laundry. This was back when I lived in Oklahoma. If I could go back in time I would have tried to catch it and at least put it outside. I admit it was a beautiful spider though.

Tremendously creepy, but kinda cool. I hope you feel better. You really are allowed to skip a show and stay home on the couch, you know. ;)

BLASPHEMY MARLA!

(I've heard of them stridulating and "hissing" but this was more like a sound effect from an Aliens movie - coupled with the blur of skittering movement it was just . . . weird)

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

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

BLASPHEMY MARLA!

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x100000000000 ;):D

spiders should not be able to scream or make any other shrieking noises! that's way too eerie. if mine ever does that i think i'll be severely traumatized.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

BLASPHEMY MARLA!

(I've heard of them stridulating and "hissing" but this was more like a sound effect from an Aliens movie - coupled with the blur of skittering movement it was just . . . weird)

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#1 Who will take care of the critters when you're stuck in bed with fever? Poor Smynx? With all the boys to look after and you, too? :P

#2 If any spider starts making noise, I'm a) outta there and b) questioning whether somebody slipped me a Mickey.

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?