My eight legged friends, update topic.

[Tsubaki]

Seeing as there is very little spider action on this forum, i'll just update my spiders in one topic from now on! So far i have the following spiders:

Brachypelma Angustum female (Costa Rican Red)
Grammostola Pulchripes female (Chaco Gold Knee)
(Grammostola Rosea (Chilean Rose Haired Tarantula) -> after i pick it up tomorrow)

Probably won't be getting any more spiders soon, maybe when my snake room is done and have more room. Would still like a B. Smithy and B.Boehmi and maybe some ornamental spiders.

Here's a picture of their housing. All the tanks are heated on the backside by heat-tape, this is the view from the couch where i usually sit :D

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/kast_zpss0jbfolf.jpg

[Tsubaki]

My Pulchripes is a fairly large spider, her name is Madame Octa (or just Octa for short) named after the spider from my favorite childhood book series the vampire assistant. She had stopped eating about 2 months ago. As her housing was spot on i suspected pre-molt, and i was right. She molted last week, today was the first time i offered her a grashopper. She did not give it a chance to walk an inch :D

Old picture pre-molt but i like this picture.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Vrouw%202_zpsythz72fp.jpg

Getting ready to molt, she build a nice molting web (and made the window all dirty)
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Pulchripes2_zpstraztvaq.jpg

Right after molt, still very squishy and shy.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Pulchripes3_zpsbyvg9vhq.jpg

Her empty skin
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Pulchripes4_zpspkfh6vei.jpg


The second she noticed the food!
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Pulchripes1_zps1nq6mbn2.jpg

[Tsubaki]

My Brachypelma Angustum. Fiesty little thing, very food orientated! Today i didn't even get to release the grashopper into the tank, she grabbed it from the tongs. She's a yet black spider with red hairs, but the black hairs are very shiny and make it hard to photograph her true color at night. She usually spend the days with most of her body in her hide-out (Just her legs sticking out) So all the good photo's are of her holding something to eat. Her name is Shelob, like the spider from LOTR :D

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum9_zpspxzobpqp.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum7_zpss1lu3w4l.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum8_zps46gpm1uk.jpg

How she sits during the day.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum5_zpsmzhjxdke.jpg

[Tsubaki]

4 year old Grammostola Rosea, picture taken by current owner will take it down when i made my own pictures. Don't know much about her yet, will update tomorrow :D

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea1_zpsvhwlva6m.jpg

[Tsubaki]

Oh that picture was so unrealistic, only the hairs at the ends of her legs have a slight pinkish hue. The rest of her is bright orange instead :D pretty girl! The previous owner said she doesn't eat as well as she should but she does eat, we'll see. Here are some pictures of her and her home.

Well hello there.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%203_zpsdf9vyv91.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%202_zps78xwochj.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%204_zpslntahznh.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%201_zpskqflfdfw.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%205_zpsqudnl8fe.jpg

[SnoopySnake]

Nice T's. I didn't realize they could go without eating like that. I don't think I could keep any tarantulas but I can appreciate them :)

[Tsubaki]

Thanks Snoopy, i have heard of adult T's (Especially Rosea's) going of food for anywhere between 2 months to a year. For no reason at all. They gorge themselves, and then stop eating for a while. But going off food for a molt is very normal for any spider, 2 months is a bit long but my pulchripes does not molt a lot because she is near adulthood. Also, after molting they can't eat for a while, their teeth need to harden.

[jossh27]

i wish i wasn't so afraid of them. they really are cool to look at. maybe one day i can dip my toes in the arachnid world... the tank would have to be massive so i could clean its cage without getting too close to it

[eminart]

Very nice T's, tsubaki. I need to get a few more myself.

[Wingbeats]

Gorgeous!! I'd love to see some of these in real life someday :)

[Tsubaki]

Thanks everyone :D

i wish i wasn't so afraid of them. they really are cool to look at. maybe one day i can dip my toes in the arachnid world... the tank would have to be massive so i could clean its cage without getting too close to it

This is a bad idea for multiple reasons, large tanks are not beneficial for (most) spiders. This goes against a lot of other animals, bigger usually being better. However, imagen a spider in the wild. It will only create a small home, and wait in or nearby until food passes by. In a few square inch of natural habitat, many insects and other critters will pass by. The spider will have multiple chances to catch a meal. However, in a large tank with one feeder running around in it. The spider might not even get a single chance, they're not like snakes and will not actively search for food once they see it. Also their vision is pretty poor and the food would have to get really close. Tossing in a ton of bugs is also a bad idea, starving feeders could start eating your spider, if the spider decides it's not hungry. Especially during and after a molt, stray feeders can be lethal. It also makes it difficult to monitor how much your spider has eaten. A tank about twice the adult legspan in depth, and 3 times that in width. That is a suitable size, a little bigger is ok but not too much. Also, terrestial spiders, can drop to their death from seemingly low hights. (Less than a foot)

What you could do is get a medium sized spider, watch it grow and grow with it. Pick an easy and docile species/specimen. Keep it in a top opening enclosure, with an overhanging edge. Clean and feed with tongs, cleaning is extremely minimal. Spiders keep clean house, i havent had to clean out my pulchripes tank since i got her. Just daily clean water, pick up little messes with the tongs. If the spider has to move, or if you have to put your hands in. Put a small plastic cup over the spider :) good luck!

[Tsubaki]

The first time i fed my spiders since the Rosea got here, she would not eat (She was still settling in so that made sense) However, it did make me wonder a bit.. The previous owner told me she refused to eat anything larger than small crickets, which just struck me as weird. He also told me she was very stressy, and shy. I seriously doubt his husbandry as she has already eaten 2 very large grasshoppers for me, and is always sitting in the middle of the tank in full sight. She has just taken another large grasshopper, about the size of her abdomen. :D All 3 seem very content with their homes.

[prairiepanda]

i wish i wasn't so afraid of them. they really are cool to look at. maybe one day i can dip my toes in the arachnid world... the tank would have to be massive so i could clean its cage without getting too close to it

As Tsubaki said, a smaller enclosure is better. But if cleaning makes you nervous, you can always just use a bioactive substrate! There are plenty of really chill, smaller species that you could try to start with so that you won't be too intimidated. Euathlus sp. red, for example. You can buy a baby direct from a breeder and watch it grow :p

The first time i fed my spiders since the Rosea got here, she would not eat (She was still settling in so that made sense) However, it did make me wonder a bit.. The previous owner told me she refused to eat anything larger than small crickets, which just struck me as weird. He also told me she was very stressy, and shy. I seriously doubt his husbandry as she has already eaten 2 very large grasshoppers for me, and is always sitting in the middle of the tank in full sight. She has just taken another large grasshopper, about the size of her abdomen. :D All 3 seem very content with their homes.

Rosea in general are really weird when it comes to food. Maybe the previous owner's husbandry was off, but maybe not. It's possible that the only times she ate for them was when they offered small crickets, so they stopped offering anything else and assumed that was what she liked. Meanwhile, the times they offered other foods could have been times she just didn't want to eat. For a while I thought my rosea was a picky eater and would only eat crickets, but I have since discovered that she just doesn't eat very often and it was coincidence that I gave her crickets when she was hungry. Her eating habits fluctuate quite a lot; sometimes she'll eat a week after her last meal, other times she'll fast for 4 months. But she maintains her weight and stays well-hydrated. From what I've heard, this is typical of rosies in particular(my other Ts are all regular eaters, except before molting or in the case of mature males)

Your girl looks well-fed and healthy, so I wouldn't worry about her past conditions ;)

[Tsubaki]

That could be the case, that she just happened to take crickets. And i agree she seem to be in good shape, so i do believe she was cared for with the best intentions. Do feel like saying. There were multiple reasons i do not have a lot of faith in the previous owners housing. (Tiny tiny tubs he claimed were for adult ball pythons, small enough to make me cringe. For example. )

[David VB]

Thanks Snoopy, i have heard of adult T's (Especially Rosea's) going of food for anywhere between 2 months to a year. For no reason at all. They gorge themselves, and then stop eating for a while. But going off food for a molt is very normal for any spider, 2 months is a bit long but my pulchripes does not molt a lot because she is near adulthood. Also, after molting they can't eat for a while, their teeth need to harden.


Yeah, my rosea is not eating for a couple of months now... But she still looks healthy so i'm not worried ;)

[Tsubaki]

Should be fine then, stubborn Roseas! :D

[Akuma223]

I love your décor! And also, what kind of cages are those?

[Tsubaki]

Thanks, they are glass tanks with polyester cast decoration in them. :)

[Tsubaki]

Little Update, Aragog (Rosea) is nothing like the previous owner described. Flighty and a bit bitey even! No hair flicking but she does bolt of, then turn around and shows her teeth in a what she probably sees as 'a threatening pose'.. I just think it looks like she's trying out for ballet class, wiggling her feet into the air like that. She's eating fine and seems very relaxed as long as you don't touch her, or her tank, or put a book on the shelf.. or look at her funky i suppose. Will try to get a picture of it, the time i tried to get a camera near her she immediately went for her hide.


Madame Octa (Pulchripes) is still her old self, eats ANYTHING she can get her teeth into. If any of the spiders don't want theirs, she'll take two no problems there. Ate a baby mouse the other day, and also ate a buffalo worm a while back both of which my cousin brought her. (He's a fan, his girlfriend won't let him have any) She's pretty calm, can still shove her out of the way with a paintbrush with a least amount of resistance.. Just hobbles over to whatever direction i push her in, she has once tried to eat the paintbrush though. Fairly quickly discovered it to be inedible. She is close to 7 inches wide, and acts like the perfect display spider (never hides, she doesn't even dig)

My Shelob on the other hand.. (B.Angustum) Is not as much of a display spider anymore, she has built an entire labyrinth in her substrate. Glad i gave her the tank with the most digging opportunity.. Can't see her at all anymore, but she does come out when it's dinner time. She buried all her decorations as well, but i guess she's happy so i'll just leave it as is. (Already had to tear down half of her construction once, as she buried the water-dish, placed it on top of a stone now) Here's some pictures of what the tank looks like now she's done with it.. no idea where she is, i sometimes catch a glimpse of black hairs through the glass on the side :D

!! pictures going to have to wait a minute, having issues with explorer.. keeps getting stuck have to restart but don't want to retype this :(

[prairiepanda]

Sounds like you've got a nice variety of personalities there! The flighty one, the teddy bear, and the pet hole; they kind of balance each other out :P Seems like G pulchripes are pretty much all like Madame Octa. Great species for educational purposes.

[Tsubaki]

Yea i do and I'm really happy about it, 3 so different personalities. I didn't manage to fix my comp being annoying before work so no pictures yet, going to try adding them by phone in a minute but otherwise going to wait till morning as it is 2am for me.

[Tsubaki]

Wooo it worked :D first pic, see the 'entrance ' to the right. Second pic, leftside.. you can see the burrow is enclosure wide, as you can sometimes see her there but the only entrance is on the other side. Last pic, entrance as seen from inside. :) with some trip wires, touch them and she rushes out.

[Tsubaki]

Shelob got very cross with me today, tried to pick up her waterbowl and she came after me :D ... Got my camera and ofcourse she dove back into her labyrinth immediately.. Also Octa is insatiable, ate a cockroach today.. it seemed big but she overpowered it as if it was a speck of dust. Aragog is just being chill, always sit middle front until disturbed.. Then she runs away like a maniac :) .. and that's it, they don't really do much else!

[Salty Rob]

Awesome!!!😀

[Klaire]

It's cool to see something different once in a while on here, very beautiful spiders :)

[Tsubaki]

Thank you both :D

[havoc_vulture]

Awesome! I just took the plunge into tarantulas. Got myself a P. Metallica spiderling. I like your enclosures. I'm crossing my fingers I got a girl lol.

[Tsubaki]

Ooh very nice! Yea i'm done with the whole spiderling thing, it's cool to see them grow up and all but i rather buy a 'guaranteed' juvenile female. They're all around 4/5 years old now so i have plenty of time to enjoy them :D And unless i find a gorgeous adult B.Boehmi or B.Smithi/Annitha female, not buying any other spiders. Those species very hard to come by nowadays though. (All brachypelma's are a rare treat now they require cites, and i know there are breeders but i am not going to order one) Haven't seen one for sale on an expo or in a store in years..

[Salty Rob]

Nice ts. Wish I had a few more. I really want a p. metallica or an orange baboon.

[Tsubaki]

Well what's stopping you :D?

[Salty Rob]

Well what's stopping you :D?

Money. It's almost Christmas and I'm going to my mom's house for Christmas this year. My whole family is going to be there and I've got alot of presents for everybody. Lol. But afterwards when I get a little bit more saved up I think I'm going to just go for it. Wish me luck😀

[Tsubaki]

Good luck! Tarantula's expensive overseas?

[Minkness]

Apparently it depends on the spider. When I was looking at Smithi an adult female is 200-300$

[havoc_vulture]

Ooh very nice! Yea i'm done with the whole spiderling thing, it's cool to see them grow up and all but i rather buy a 'guaranteed' juvenile female. They're all around 4/5 years old now so i have plenty of time to enjoy them :D And unless i find a gorgeous adult B.Boehmi or B.Smithi/Annitha female, not buying any other spiders. Those species very hard to come by nowadays though. (All brachypelma's are a rare treat now they require cites, and i know there are breeders but i am not going to order one) Haven't seen one for sale on an expo or in a store in years..

I love watching my pets grow, but I do see where you're coming from regarding the guaranteed female lol. I'm currently looking at a 4 year old G. Pulchra... I'm in love of how jet black in color she is :D

[Tsubaki]

Apparently it depends on the spider. When I was looking at Smithi an adult female is 200-300$


Wow! my most expensive spider was my nearly adult Pulchripes, paid 65,- for her. 200-300$ sounds crazy.

[Minkness]

Yup. =(

A sling smithi is only 20-30$ though. Not bad, but they don't guarantee gender amd the slings at that price are only 1 inch big. An unsexed smithi at 4 inches is 100$. Infigure I may as well just get 5 of the cheaper babies and see who grows up as what, hope I get at least 1 female, then sell the extras....but that's not for a while anyway.

[eminart]

Wow! my most expensive spider was my nearly adult Pulchripes, paid 65,- for her. 200-300$ sounds crazy.

I think you could probably get a 3"+ G. pulchripes for that price over here - Definitely, a male anyway. It's the colorful and cites listed Brachypelma that seem to be the most expensive T's in the US (and things like P. metallica). The slings and juvies are reasonable, but adults are harder to come by, and expensive. Back in the 80's, you could pick up adult smithi's all day at pet stores for $20. Obviously, they were wild caught back then, and that's been stopped.

[Minkness]

Yeah, I remember seeing those and imperial scorpians in just about every petshop when I was a kid....don't really see that any more....

[eminart]

Yeah, I remember seeing those and imperial scorpians in just about every petshop when I was a kid....don't really see that any more....


I think it's the same deal with emperor scorpions - they're now cites listed and not imported. So, the ones you find are captive bred, which is a good thing, in my opinion.

[prairiepanda]

I've found that mature or nearly mature females of any species from breeders up here tend to be $200+, but they're easy enough to find for much cheaper. Adult and subadult Ts in pet shops go for around $20-$80 usually, including the occasional Brachypelma so they're not all WC(those, however, are unsexed)....However, I have gotten really great deals through enthusiast get-togethers, expos, and forum classifieds. For example, at Arachnoparty I got 2 female B smithi, one mature and one juvie at 2.5" for $65! Both in excellent health, though neither one was really "friendly" and they kicked up clouds of urticating hairs at the slightest disturbance. And I also got a subadult female X immanis from forum classifieds for $60!

There are some species that are super expensive when they first enter the hobby because of their rarity and prettiness, but the prices quickly drop as everyone starts breeding them. Look at M balfouri; slings were going for $500 a few years ago, now they're $50 or less. I'm waiting for the same thing to happen with Thrigmopoeus psychedelicus....

[Minkness]

I bet they will have better priced Ts at repticon. I'll take a look if I go in march.

[Salty Rob]

Yea I finally found a store here where I live. I can get one for $80. And thanks

[reptiledude987]

Wow! my most expensive spider was my nearly adult Pulchripes, paid 65,- for her. 200-300$ sounds crazy.

Is that 65 euros? the conversion makes a big difference.

[eminart]

Is that 65 euros? the conversion makes a big difference.


The euro and US dollar about even right now. But, yes, it CAN make a difference.

[ManSlaughter33]

I will be buying a g.pulchra in the new year. it's decided :cool:

[eminart]

I will be buying a g.pulchra in the new year. it's decided :cool:

Welcome to the G. pulchra club!

[Tsubaki]

Pulchra's are cool :D still a shame turned out to be a male :(

[eminart]

Pulchra's are cool :D still a shame turned out to be a male :(


Hoping to sex mine after the next molt. Fingers crossed for a female.

[Tsubaki]

Ooh here's another one hoping! i'm so glad i found some fellow spider lovers on here :D

[ManSlaughter33]

I don't think I am going to buy a sling or an unsexed one. I want a guaranteed female :)
I liked having a sling before and watching it grow, but honestly, it takes too long LOL

[eminart]

[QUOTE=ManSlaughter33;981058
I liked having a sling before and watching it grow, but honestly, it takes too long LOL[/QUOTE]


True, but you can get so many for so cheap! ;)

[ManSlaughter33]

True, but you can get so many for so cheap! ;)

Don't do that to me :P
I'll get one adult female G.Pulchra and we will see about more later on. I was thinking of a Birdeater :)

[Tsubaki]

Ok so lets see, a little update on all of them. First of, Octa (G. Pulchripes) is just being Octa.. A huge eating Machine.. She would eat every day if i offered food every day. She now has a leg-span the size of my hand, and has a huge butt ( I think she's over 100 grams easily). And that's all there is to say really! Tried to take a decent picture but the sun on the window caused too much glare, so here's a picture i took a while back but did not share yet.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Pulchripes5_zpsb3jlrizf.jpg

Shelob (G.Rosea) has refused her first meal with me yesterday, suspect she's going on a hiatus for a molt as she's looking a bit grimy. For the previous owner she wouldn't eat at all, once every 2 months at most. She has been eating weekly since she got here.. And her behavior also changed. Making it IMPOSSIBLE to take a decent picture. Extremely timid spider, while the previous owner said she was very easy to handle.. As soon as she spots me she darts off, and all i see is a butt sticking out of a hide.. very subtle Shelob.. So most pictures of her are taken from a distance, of buttocks shots. I think the previous owner kept her pretty cold, she was calmer before she got the chance to warm up (She also loves her hotspot)

So hereby a picture of Shelob before she spots me, and a picture After she spots me..

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%207_zpsmwxs7iwa.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%206_zpsxroigry2.jpg

And then there's Aragog (B.Angustum), being awesome as always and honoring her name by living in a labyrinth! She eats like a maniac, and has been tunneling like crazy. She also remodels often, i see her hauling around cocohusk packed in web pretty often.

So when she first started the 'tunneling' she only dig out a small hole, First 2 pictures are archive pictures, just to show her advancing.

So at first, she had a small hole and always with her legs sticking out.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum5_zpsmzhjxdke.jpg
Then she started digging a slightly bigger hole, and you could see openings forming on the sides.
http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/attachments/general-invertebrates-forum/33814d1448673787-my-eight-legged-friends-update-topic-20151127_145852.jpg

If you look at her tank now, you can see a massive opening on both sides. She has a small 'staircase' leading up and she races up there in mere seconds. Sometimes you can't see her at all, when she is in the middle of her labyrinth, but lately she prefers to sit elsewhere.


What a pretty tunnel,...!
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum%201_zpsdbcftgdn.jpg

And what's that!? The flash reveals Aragog's hideout!
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum%202_zpsutgbhotj.jpg

Thanks for reading!

[Salty Rob]

That's awesome. Nice. Looking Ts

[Tsubaki]

thanks mate

[David VB]

Some nice spiders, i love them too. Got 70-80 at the moment :)

[Tsubaki]

that's a few too many for me :D

[Salty Rob]

Some nice spiders, i love them too. Got 70-80 at the moment :)

You a breeder? But that would be awesome to just have that many.

[Salty Rob]

Ok so lets see, a little update on all of them. First of, Octa (G. Pulchripes) is just being Octa.. A huge eating Machine.. She would eat every day if i offered food every day. She now has a leg-span the size of my hand, and has a huge butt ( I think she's over 100 grams easily). And that's all there is to say really! Tried to take a decent picture but the sun on the window caused too much glare, so here's a picture i took a while back but did not share yet.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Pulchripes5_zpsb3jlrizf.jpg

Shelob (G.Rosea) has refused her first meal with me yesterday, suspect she's going on a hiatus for a molt as she's looking a bit grimy. For the previous owner she wouldn't eat at all, once every 2 months at most. She has been eating weekly since she got here.. And her behavior also changed. Making it IMPOSSIBLE to take a decent picture. Extremely timid spider, while the previous owner said she was very easy to handle.. As soon as she spots me she darts off, and all i see is a butt sticking out of a hide.. very subtle Shelob.. So most pictures of her are taken from a distance, of buttocks shots. I think the previous owner kept her pretty cold, she was calmer before she got the chance to warm up (She also loves her hotspot)

So hereby a picture of Shelob before she spots me, and a picture After she spots me..

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%207_zpsmwxs7iwa.jpg
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Rosea%206_zpsxroigry2.jpg

And then there's Aragog (B.Angustum), being awesome as always and honoring her name by living in a labyrinth! She eats like a maniac, and has been tunneling like crazy. She also remodels often, i see her hauling around cocohusk packed in web pretty often.

So when she first started the 'tunneling' she only dig out a small hole, First 2 pictures are archive pictures, just to show her advancing.

So at first, she had a small hole and always with her legs sticking out.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum5_zpsmzhjxdke.jpg
Then she started digging a slightly bigger hole, and you could see openings forming on the sides.
http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/attachments/general-invertebrates-forum/33814d1448673787-my-eight-legged-friends-update-topic-20151127_145852.jpg

If you look at her tank now, you can see a massive opening on both sides. She has a small 'staircase' leading up and she races up there in mere seconds. Sometimes you can't see her at all, when she is in the middle of her labyrinth, but lately she prefers to sit elsewhere.


What a pretty tunnel,...!
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum%201_zpsdbcftgdn.jpg

And what's that!? The flash reveals Aragog's hideout!
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Angustum%202_zpsutgbhotj.jpg

Thanks for reading!

Nice Ts. And I liked the way you gave them a background and now story

[Tsubaki]

Thanks again Rob :)

[Pogie]

Apparently it depends on the spider. When I was looking at Smithi an adult female is 200-300$

My sister got one of these last year and if I remember right it cost her around $30. It has grown and is really REALLY pretty! She got it from Petco of all places rotfl.

[Salty Rob]

Thanks again Rob :)

Welcome. I really enjoy spiders. Wish I had more but no room at the moment

[Tsubaki]

I tried to feed Aragog a buffalo worm, i have never seen a spider run around so frantically! Like she was scared! So i gave it to octa and gave her a grashopper, peace was restored :D

[havoc_vulture]

Coming soon
G. Pulchra
A. Purpura
A. Sp. "Ecuador"
I'm getting hooked on spiders o.O

[Salty Rob]

Coming soon
G. Pulchra
A. Purpura
A. Sp. "Ecuador"
I'm getting hooked on spiders o.O

Nice. Can't wait to see the thread and pics😀

[Salty Rob]

I tried to feed Aragog a buffalo worm, i have never seen a spider run around so frantically! Like she was scared! So i gave it to octa and gave her a grashopper, peace was restored :D

Never tried a buffalo worm. But one of mine does that with a horn worm. Lol

[havoc_vulture]

Nice. Can't wait to see the thread and pics😀

Soon enough :yes:

[havoc_vulture]

Got a picture of my pulchra feeding at the pet shop, I'll be bringing her home in the next week or so

[Tsubaki]

very nice :) all my spiders ate yesterday including the Rosea, so still no molting!

[IW17]

My sister got one of these last year and if I remember right it cost her around $30. It has grown and is really REALLY pretty! She got it from Petco of all places rotfl.

If it cost $30, and from petco non the less, it wasn't a sexed female. She just got very lucky. Which never happens to me :hmm:

[Tsubaki]

Just an update, it's been a while.. The Rosea (Shelob) went into a molting and sadly did not come out of it. My Brachypelma is out on a breeding loan, and the person borrowing her hasn't returned my calls for ages.. Also not responding to my emails.. So now I'm down to just Madame Octa (G.Pulchripes) She's doing great, should molt again soon she's looking a bit scruffy. Recently made her a new house.. :D She was getting a bit big for her old home. Put some nightlights (blue LED) in it too. Pretty happy with how it turned out, really like how the backdrop looks.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Mobile%20Uploads/20161009_121640_zps8xkhxboa.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Mobile%20Uploads/20161007_121752_zpsmpycav6e.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj100/Senna-Ichurin/Mobile%20Uploads/20161009_122213_zpsrkqq7aps.jpg

[dannybgoode]

Sorry to hear about your spiders. That sucks. Can you do anything about the breeding one?

Nice new home though-looks fantastic.

[Tsubaki]

Thx Danny, and no idea what I can do. I tried the police but they need proof of ownership..

[BobBarley]

That's why I never do breeding loans. I always trade off my mature males for other species. Sucks to hear that man.

[Albert Clark]

Amazing arachnids Tsu! Gotta be on top of your game with these guys I bet. Grats.

[Tsubaki]

Thx Albert, there's only one of them left though :D