I love bringing this spider up....

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It will be awhile before there are many of them about but you never know :).
 
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Wow!!!

That is gorgeous!!! I want one!!! I'll have to call Todd Gearheart and put this one on my wish list! :}
 
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Hello.

you can forget about purchase of this species, or at least for some time yet...
It`s very very rare, and just few people all over the world have them....
Breeding isn`t so easy as somebody would think, so .... :eek:(

Peter
 
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spiderPeter said:
Hello.

you can forget about purchase of this species, or at least for some time yet...
It`s very very rare, and just few people all over the world have them....
Breeding isn`t so easy as somebody would think, so .... :eek:(

Peter
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That is too bad :eek: I would love to have this species it is beautiful
 
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Greg Wolfe said:
That is gorgeous!!! I want one!!! I'll have to call Todd Gearheart and put this one on my wish list! :}
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I had heard at one time that there was a breeding attempt in the Czech republic, but perhaps Peter can enlighten us,after all I am a bit partial to Slovakia.
Tony Skvarenina :)
 
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Indeed iv only heard of one person who has them for sure, we can but wait and hope i can remember quite a few animals that were considered almost impossible to keep alive for any length of time let alone breed in captivity that are now quite common place :cool:
 
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Rarest if the rare...

This one is stunning! It kind of reminds me of the Xenesthis sp. (white) at Martin's. I can't stop looking at this one! :}
 
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> I had heard at one time that there was a breeding attempt in the Czech
> republic, but perhaps Peter can enlighten us,after all I am a bit partial to
> Slovakia.
> Tony Skvarenina

Hello Tony.

You last name sounds like coming from Czechoslovakia :eek:)

I used to have 5 pcs of Monocentrophus balfouri at the beginning of this year yet. They were bigger spiderlings, but I traded them for rarer Poecilotherias, as this genus is the most interesting for me...
That`s right there are some Monocentrophus balfouri in Czech republic. They all were brough from scientific trip over Socotra few years ago. I know Vladimir Sejna bred them few months ago, but as I know from him, the final result of spiderlings were 5 pcs!!! They start to die without any reason, so it`s really hard to keep spiderlings alive.
I got my spiderlings in 1st instar, and I didn`t lost any, but....

I hope to get someof them later again, they are really amazing....

Best regards,
Peter
 
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spiderPeter said:
I used to have 5 pcs of Monocentrophus balfouri at the beginning of this year yet. They were bigger spiderlings
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Do you have any pictures of the spiderlings????

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Hello.

I didn`t take many pictures, but have few.. :) I am postinghere two pictures from feeding. They are not the best, but the spiderlings are really very small. Spiderling on the picture is approx. in 5th/6th instar, and still less 1 cm in the body...
As you see, they are not so colorfull as spiderlings, but for sure getting better and better look with every next molt...

Best regards,
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Hi Peter,
They are not the best, but the spiderlings are really very small. Spiderling on the picture is approx. in 5th/6th instar, and still less 1 cm in the body...
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That is indeed very small especially with 5 or 6 molts under its belt,They do look very plain as spiderlings what size do they get to as adults,I wonder why they are so hard to get to adulthood. :?

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They look similar to Cithoscurria Crawshayi. :D


Pardon me, But you would`nt have the common name, off hand, would you? :)
 
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Considering Peter had the only 5 spiderlings (right?) and there were only a couple adults taken back, I would say it would NOT warrant a common name
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Thank you for clarifying that. I`d end up seaching everywhere for the common name.
Come to think of it, I should have realised that myself.

(seems as if I learn something new everyday)
 
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