Genus Macrothele

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Arachnobaron
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I live in Texas too (Austin) have have a group of Macrothele calpeiana... (2.1.4 individuals) .... Very cool spiders.

Below is a pic of a tank where I have an adult female and subadult male Coexisting... no reccomended..
 

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Arachnobaron
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hi,
this tank looks pretty nice, very natural - almost like their native habitat ;)

Macrothele sp. "Laos"
 

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very cool guys! Keep it up...

Graham...alright! Nice to know someone else around here has some. We need to swap mature males when we get them. I've got 3 spiders right now (unsexed so far) that are all around 1 1/2".

Chris
 

case214

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No longer in my collection but still macrothele.

Macrothele gigas










Macrothele calpeiana, mating



Macrothele sp.



 

_bob_

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very cool guys! Keep it up...

Graham...alright! Nice to know someone else around here has some. We need to swap mature males when we get them. I've got 3 spiders right now (unsexed so far) that are all around 1 1/2".

Chris
Aww man... I just had a MM male but he just passed :(
 

Selenops

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Want one never had one. Beautiful pics.

I love the threat postures... grrr! :D
 

Selenops

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Todd Gearheart and someone else whom I can't recall were selling M. calpeiana about half a year or year ago, pretty steeply priced $60-80 but these spiders are quite long lived.
 

John Apple

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My adult females are around 2-3", They have been bred so now I am in the waiting game. I am guessing this summer I'll have some slings
 

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John,
Let me know when you get some...I'd like to get some of your slings to have a different bloodline.

Chris
 

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Aww man... I just had a MM male but he just passed :(
Hey Bob, we need to meet up. I've lived in Austin for the past 8 months... lots of odd inverts.

Graham
 

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how large do these species get and where i can i get one?:O
They can reach a leg span over 6 inches, I think ken the bug guy has some sling for sale.

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Here's some pictures of my Macrothele gigas slings setups.



Some molts I collected so far.


Freshly molted


My biggest, but still tiny starts to get some blackish color.
 

mingu

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Can't get enough of this species. So, I took some pictures today of the ones that were visible.

This one molted recently.










 

dactylus

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John,
Let me know when you get some...I'd like to get some of your slings to have a different bloodline.

Chris
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Same here. I'd love to pick up another bloodline too.

I have 3 M. calpeiana slings that are nearing 1/2" and 5 M. gigas slings that are in the 1/2"-3/4" range.

Different genus I know, but are any of you keeping any of the Linothele species as well? Maybe a reason to start a separate topic for that genus? I have a few Linothele megatheloides and Linothele fallax. I really dig them too. Long-legged speedsters!!

:biggrin:



David
 
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