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buthus
10-28-2006, 12:02 PM
revivensis
http://www.moflash.net/stuff/img/spiders/rev_sling_feed_01.jpg

Male pallidus sling
http://www.moflash.net/stuff/img/spiders/pal_sling_male_01.jpg

mactans ...oh how these have changed after a couple of molts!
http://www.moflash.net/stuff/img/spiders/mct_A2_sling_01.jpg

spitter sling. They have lost much of their color, but are starting to get interesting to watch ...and big enough to keep track of. Not sure how many I have left though ...10 or 12 probably. A couple deaths, but with little or no evidence.
http://www.moflash.net/stuff/img/spiders/spittersling_eating-ant.jpg
rex_arachne
10-28-2006, 02:37 PM
cool widow slings pics.
buthus
11-04-2006, 09:40 AM
http://www.moflash.net/stuff/img/spiders/rev_sling_feedroach_01.jpg

http://www.moflash.net/stuff/img/spiders/rev_sling_01.jpg
Glen Southern
11-04-2006, 10:25 AM
I keep looking at the spitters. Martin Goss has a few left over here and I keep meaning to mail him to get a couple. Those early pics you posted were very striking with the really high contrast.
buthus
11-04-2006, 04:08 PM
I keep looking at the spitters. Martin Goss has a few left over here and I keep meaning to mail him to get a couple. Those early pics you posted were very striking with the really high contrast.

My spitter slings are dwindling in numbers. I couldnt figure out what was happening to them until a few nights ago. Before that, I would find what seemed to be a molt or a dead sling attached to another mass ...almost loooked like prey. But, then I saw what happens. When one has troubles during molting, a sibling will walk right over and start eating it! Its a cruel little world in that spitter enclosure. I hope I end up with at least a few adults. Trying to keep the humidity up, but I am only making an assumption to whats causing the molting failures.
RodG
11-05-2006, 11:00 AM
Out of 11 spitter slings, I am now down to 6. Jordan has said they are very delicate and it seems to be so. I have kept mine seperately but the ones that are left have molted at least once and are aggressive feeders. What is really neat is that the pinheads I feed out almost immediately become paralyzed when the spitters shoot them with their venom. I too am hoping to get some to adulthood.