Psalmopoeus pulcher sling behaviour

BossRoss · Nov 27, 2014

Does the Psalmopoeus pulcher slings burrow(like some Poecilotheria)? Or are they more likely to go arboreal if given the correct set up(like most? Avics)?

Biollantefan54 · Nov 27, 2014

They burrow a lot as slings, I think that whole genus does, I know P. irminia does.

cold blood · Nov 27, 2014

BossRoss said:
Does the Psalmopoeus pulcher slings burrow(like some Poecilotheria)? Or are they more likely to go arboreal if given the correct set up(like most? Avics)?

yes...:wink:

Some stay on the ground and burrow, others make their web tubes up a little higher. I think as slings and even juvies, they are less inclined to commit to a full arboreal lifestyle.

Ultum4Spiderz · Nov 27, 2014

cold blood said:
yes...:wink:

Some stay on the ground and burrow, others make their web tubes up a little higher. I think as slings and even juvies, they are less inclined to commit to a full arboreal lifestyle.

My Adult female lives in her tube-web and is only seen when she ventures out for food at night etc. A pet web yes, but it rather her feel safe.

BossRoss · Nov 27, 2014

Thanks, just wanted to know which enclosure I should have set up.

Poec54 · Nov 27, 2014

BossRoss said:
Thanks, just wanted to know which enclosure I should have set up.

My 3 species of Psalmos are all in horizontal cages, and either stay on the cork slab (cambridgei) or under it (irminia & pulcher). They're prone to fast dashes as slings, but I've never had adults run out of their cages.

cold blood · Nov 27, 2014

Poec54 said:
My 3 species of Psalmos are all in horizontal cages...They're prone to fast dashes as slings, but I've never had adults run out of their cages.

I think they can be housed either way, as long as there is proper cover available for them. They are not a spider I would worry much about having the height with, but I could easily see it not being necessary like poec keeps em.

They are great at using hides, altering or adapting hides or even creating their own out of a dirty web tube. As long as they have that nice secure "home base" they tend to just sit tight within them. I've never had one bolt or even give me a moment of pause and as they've grown, they all seem more predictable in a way as they get a touch less skittish.

CEC · Nov 27, 2014

The slings aren't much different than other species in the genus but all my pulcher juvie/adults have been a bit more "arboreal" than my cambridgei, irminia, and reduncus juvie/adults. P. pulcher are more elaborate webers, and in my case, they barely break the substrate surface. IME P. pulcher like to web a lot more and don't just have dirt curtains around the cork bark like most juvies/adults in the genus.

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