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phoenixxavierre
08-28-2003, 12:08 PM
Hi all,

Just wanted to share a little experience I had that was quite unusual. In the course of separating B. albopilosum spiderlings I was using up any and all containers I could find at the moment. During the course of housing the spiderlings over a period of a couple months, I housed one of the spiderlings in a container that I thought was not being used by any other spiders. I went digging around in the container to move the B. albo elsewhere and while gently trying to enlarge the burrow it had created I noticed to the side of it was a loose "lid" of dirt leading to another burrow! Yikes!! A young black trapdoor, about an inch in legspan, perhaps a bit bigger was living in the burrow! The B. albos' burrow was one and the same, going down by the side of the trapdoor and into the trapdoors' burrow! And about now I bet you're wondering if the trapdoor spider had eaten the B. albo. Not at all! They were coexisting just fine. I removed the B. albo, though. Figured you all might find that an interesting little story. The B. albo lived with the trapdoor for over a month!

Peace,

Paul

Sean
08-29-2003, 09:21 PM
Wow, and the trapdoor didnt kill it???Thats crazy, where they about the same size or what, that is pretty intresting

phoenixxavierre
08-31-2003, 11:01 PM
Originally posted by Sean
Wow, and the trapdoor didnt kill it???Thats crazy, where they about the same size or what, that is pretty intresting

yeah, pretty bizarre! they were sharing a burrow! the trapdoor is bigger than the spiderling! After I removed the spiderling, I put a cricket in there to see if the trapdoor was hungry at all. The trapdoor killed the cricket but didn't eat it, so maybe it was just not interested in food during the month the spiderling was living with it. I'm still pretty surprised the trapdoor didn't kill the spiderling!