Some new molts

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Linothele megatheloides, her molt measures almost 5 inches.


Macrothele gigas 3rd instar
 
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That Linothele megatheloides is gorgeous. How long have you had it?
 
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Macrothele gigas 3rd instar in a new enclosure.



Macrothele gigas 4th instar, need to rehouse this one soon.
 
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Lovely pictures!

One question, how the hell do you photograph the Heteropoda!!?!?

I once had a similar spider (big big Olios sp) and it would run around like i'd been feeding it crack!!!! :)
wouldn't dream of opening its box!
 
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G. Carnell said:
Lovely pictures!

One question, how the hell do you photograph the Heteropoda!!?!?

I once had a similar spider (big big Olios sp) and it would run around like i'd been feeding it crack!!!! :)
wouldn't dream of opening its box!
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During day time their pretty calm. These pictures where taken in the morning. At night time I wouldn't open the box either.
 
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G. Carnell said:
One question, how the hell do you photograph the Heteropoda!!?!?
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Hi Guy,

the trick is that you can't even not compare Sparassidae ssp. to Sparassidae ssp. but also neither Heteropoda spec. to Heteropoda spec.

While i've never kept Olios spec. i recognize the described behaviour from Heteropoda species like (e.g.) venatoria and boiei - totally nuts & speed-freaks.
This is to my experience different though with H. davidbowie and H. lunula - as long as you use daytime hours to do your shots and give them some kind of bark piece to hold on to, these will rather rely on camouflage and will only react flighty if directly (somtimes even massive) bothered.

So the last two mentioned species are really are a pleasure to work with in picture regards in comparison to some other members of the family ;)

@ Mingu: Nice shots of that H. lunula! :)

Regards,

Stefan
 
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Some molts of my Heteropoda lunula. Got her back in September 2012 and molted 3 times in my care. I still don't know if it is a female or male.

Any guesses?


Some pics of Macrothele gigas in premolt



 
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I love your pics of H. lunula I recently got one and I love it
But I would like to point it out I am extremely jealous of your M. Gigas
I had a choice on either H. Lunula or M. Gigas but because of funds I settled on the Heteropoda lol

Cheers Angelo
 
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My Heteropoda lunula molted last night and she looks amazing. Her molt measures around 5 inches in leg span.



 
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Awesome H. lunula! I truely love this species coloration...
 
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