Psalmopoeus loses entire leg!

MizM

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My Psalmopoeus irminia, Irma, (not ONE WORD about her lame name! :( ) just lost a WHOLE LEG! Very strange...

I was feeding, and she ran up my arm and glided to the floor. I gently got her cornered, and picked her up. But leg #2 was still laying on the floor, twitching and dancing all by itself! It fell off neatly at the coxae, with not a DROP of hemolymph loss! Irma is just fine, didn't seem to suffer at all!

This is one of the weirdest "T" things that has happened to me, although I have had a T drop an injured palp or leg.
 

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HEYHEY,
Is this my girl that you picked up at Pomona? I thought she perished due to the outside heat at a children's fair exhibit. Glad to hear she was resuscitated.
In my experience, it's not uncommon for arboreals to lose limbs when stressed; A. versicolor likes to do it at the drop of a dime. So does P. cambridgei, and yes, P. irminia. 'Specially when they say "Damn this oppression!" and leap to the floor.
See you at Pomona IRBA this weekend?
-chris
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senor ocho said:
HEYHEY,
Is this my girl that you picked up at Pomona? I thought she perished due to the outside heat at a children's fair exhibit. Glad to hear she was resuscitated.
In my experience, it's not uncommon for arboreals to lose limbs when stressed; A. versicolor likes to do it at the drop of a dime. So does P. cambridgei, and yes, P. irminia. 'Specially when they say "Damn this oppression!" and leap to the floor.
See you at Pomona IRBA this weekend?
-chris
www.krazy8sinvertebrates.com
No, unfortunately, it's another... HAD to get a quick replacement!! Never knew they would do it just out of stress! Like lizards and their tails, huh?

Not sure which day, but YES I will be there... remember the h. gigas I got last year? Hope you have more! It's a date - I'll see you there... with my other dates, Sam, Wayne, Billy, EvilSpiderHunter... sre there any GIRLS that wanna go????
 

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Sorry, but I just HAD to: I R M A????? Irma???????

You know I'm just kidding, really, cute name. :D
 

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Socrates said:
Sorry, but I just HAD to: I R M A????? Irma???????

You know I'm just kidding, really, cute name. :D
UR MEAN!!! I gotta name them SOMETHING! :( Maybe I should change it to "Senorita Siete"! {D
 

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MizM said:
UR MEAN!!! I gotta name them SOMETHING! :( Maybe I should change it to "Senorita Siete"! {D
...I was kidding, I really really was...... :)

SENORITA SIETE...ROFLMAO {D (how's your friend like THAT name???)
 

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I know you were... I also know her name is lame!!!! Maybe just Siete? Seven? I already have a Stumpy!!!
 

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Stumpy

I am about to call my 6 legged Cobalt Blue Stumpy.
 

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give her an exotic name!!! like Sum Ting Wong (something wrong) :} :}
 

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Angelo said:
give her an exotic name!!! like Sum Ting Wong (something wrong) :} :}
{D {D I can't breathe.... laughing too hard... help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee {D
 

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WOW! I've never heard of a leg just poppin' off but since it was still moving around, it very well could be a defense just like the lizard tail falling off. Well, now I'm prepared incase one of my versicolors decides to do that and I won't freak out so bad.
 

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Glad I didn't freak, just really curious!! :D
 

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I really freaked when I notice my Cobalt missing a leg, especially since I couldn't find it! {D I could just imagine what I'd be like if I saw it on the floor still twitching....,
OMG! Your leg!! What have I done! Oh, hold still..., OW! Stop biting me! OWW! I'm trying to console you! You're in shock, you've just lost a leg- eeeww look, it's still moving! {D
 

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Stumpyness!! All hail stumpy!!!! stumpy is evi.. stumpy is.. stumpy goews.. stumpies will conqour gimpy in Cruches war!!!
 

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Malhavoc's said:
Stumpyness!! All hail stumpy!!!! stumpy is evi.. stumpy is.. stumpy goews.. stumpies will conqour gimpy in Cruches war!!!
Drakie.. YOU have a stump fixation! {D
 
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