Pink-Toe Tarantula Pic.....

[Beardonicus]

Here is my Guyanan PTT:

http://novogate.com/forums/1647/user/23319/9916.jpg

[AlexPan]

nice tarantulla! i got the same one :) . Do you by any chance knoe how to tell a male from a female. (i know males got some kind of hooks but not sure where are the hooks supposed to be located). Thanks.

[Beardonicus]

I have no clue how to sex them, lol. This is my first tarantula.

[Tarcan]

First, the hook method is not always reliable... not all species of Ts have those hooks (A. avicularia have them)... and only mature males have them (of course among species that are supposed to have them...)

So, a specimen that do not have the hooks could be an immature male... if you are looking for them, they are located on the tibia of the first pair of legs...

A mature male will also have modified pedipalps into sexual unsertion apparatus... but again this only tells you your male is mature...

There are a few other ways to sex, the most reliable being to examine the interior of the molt and look at the sexual organs if you can see the ones of a female... very reliable... but you need pictures to know what you are looking for...

I hope this helps

Martin

[Tarcan]

A few pictures would help: those are the "modified pedipalps" I was talking about...

[Tarcan]

Here is a picture of tibial hooks... please not that Acanthoscurria spp. have tibial hooks on the side... normally, on the other species, the hooks are under... but it still gives you an idea what to look for...

[Tarcan]

oups, forgot the pic...

[Tarcan]

This is a dorsal view, you can see that the pedipalps of mature males have a typical "clubed" shape...

[Tarcan]

And a last one, in case you are mixted up in how to number the legs of a spider...

[~Suntiger~]

What a cutie, I love pink toes

[AlexPan]

Nice thanks Tarcan :) :)

[TheRedDragon]

What a cute fuzzball. :)

[Dragoon]

What did that male die of?
Did it get chomped, or just fade away? (such a small ophisthosoma!) I was under the impression that they still eat after maturing...my rosea and avic did, but really slowed down after a couple months...

EXCELLENT photo series Tarcan! A picture is worth a thousand words. That's the most concise explanation I've seen yet. :)
D.

[Tarcan]

Thank you Dragoon,

The male died of old age... it stopped eating about two months prior to dying...

The funny thing is that it made a sperm web one week before dying, to my amazement... I thought it was ready to die and the next thing I know he is making the sperm web!LOL I thought he was a real survivor, always ready for some last minute fun!

Martin

[Dragoon]

Well, isn't THAT like a typical male...
let's not let a little thing like dying interfere with getting some nookie....
LOL
D.