Phormictopus cancerides?

Jun 29, 2014

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This male was sold to me many moons ago as Phormictopus cancerides and I was pretty sure that's what he was visually. About six months ago he got really dull brown and I was waiting for him to mature. He finally did but he lost all his purple and turned into a nice pretty gold with red setae. Was just looking for confirmation that this is indeed P cancerides. I was under the impression P cancerides would be a chocolate color with a purple carapce but I might be thinking of P sp purple.

 

Jun 29, 2014

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Beary Strange

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That looks more like platus to my eyes.

 

Jun 29, 2014

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antinous

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I'm not an expert on the Phormictopus genus, but I'm siding with Belle. I've seen quite a few pictures of platus and it looks pretty similar.

 

Jun 29, 2014

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I've seen P sp Purple and P.cancerides males in person, this doesn't really look like neither but seeing as it might be platus, you need to get official confirmation of species, find a lady for that handsome guy and then let me know if you get any slings from it

 

Jun 29, 2014

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Belle Fury said:

That looks more like platus to my eyes.

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+1. I've seen a number of MM cancerides, and they're purple, not gold. Yours looks like platus or auratum.

 

Jun 29, 2014

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Fins

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Looks a lot like my platus.

 

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The evidence is pretty strong. Looks like Phormictopus platus to me! I'm pretty bummed though; I was looking forward to pairing my cancerides females. I have 0.4 ready to go and I can't find a male. Thanks everybody!

 

Jun 30, 2014

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Beary Strange

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JadeWilliamson said:

The evidence is pretty strong. Looks like Phormictopus platus to me! I'm pretty bummed though; I was looking forward to pairing my cancerides females. I have 0.4 ready to go and I can't find a male. Thanks everybody!

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Oh goodness. o-o I wouldn't think those would be super hard to find though. Although I guess that's always the way of it.

 

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Belle Fury said:

I wouldn't think those would be super hard to find though.

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Right? I was happy to find someone with a handful of immature males back when I had one female, then I found a local with a male and two females ready to trade so I decided to start a breeding group. Turns out that first male was P platus. I don't remember who it is or I'd let him know.