User Frogdaddy's Tarantulas: A Love Story

[Baby T]

@Baby T. El Chapo molted last week. He/she is a solid 3"now. I moved it into a new enclosure today. Now it's time for a little T. vagans booty.
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Amazing booty! It's feeding day for Vincent Vagans after his molt. I reckon it's about 3" too... A race to adulthood!!!

 

[Frogdaddy]

Shaka Zulu - Pterinochilus murinus

 

[Smotzer]

Gorgeous!!!

 

[Frogdaddy]

Thanks buddy. I'm trying to get pictures of my other P. murinus. In his case O.B.T. stands for Other Brown Tarantula. I know there are different forms and all, but I bought it as just a plain ol O.B.T. and at 1.75"- 2" DLS it sporting a mix of browns. It's more reclusive than the P. murinus pictured above, it kinda puts doubt in my mind as to if it is a P. murinus or another baboon.

 

[Smotzer]

Thanks buddy. I'm trying to get pictures of my other P. murinus. In his case O.B.T. stands for Other Brown Tarantula. I know there are different forms and all, but I bought it as just a plain ol O.B.T. and at 1.75"- 2" DLS it sporting a mix of browns. It's more reclusive than the P. murinus pictured above, it kinda puts doubt in my mind as to if it is a P. murinus or another baboon.

hhmmm....I gotta see a picture of that one?? Maybe a DCF locality? or P. chordatus
here check out these some of the P. murinus arent browns and who knows if these ever get revised if they are indeed even the same species.

Pterinochilus chordatus.

• Arachnid Addicted
• Apr 26, 2021
• 2
• chordatus pterinochilus

I heard there are different color variations in this species.

Pterinochilus murinus 0.1 , Kigoma locality

• Ianpcfauna
• Mar 27, 2021
• 1

2in , rehoused today and got a photo.
First one sexed out of the group.

murinus

• cold blood
• Nov 25, 2020
• 1

zimbabwe/botswana

P. chordatus

• arachnidgill
• Aug 14, 2020
• chordatus drinking juvenile male male pterinochilus pterinochilus chordatus water

Pterinochilus chordatus juvenile male getting a drink.

 

[8 legged]

Shaka Zulu - Pterinochilus murinus
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I like it´s name! Memories are awakened! "Boom boom boom boom boom"

 

[Frogdaddy]

Nelson Mandela - Harpactira pulchripes

 

[Frogdaddy]

Xenesthis intermedia

 

[Frogdaddy]

@Smotzer
Here is Huvi, the brown O.B.T.
I sent pictures to the vendor, see if they made a mistake or it's a brown, orange spider.

 

[Frogdaddy]

Update: After speaking with the vendor, there is a 99.9% chance the above. P. murinus is actually a P. murinus Kigoma. Misidentified at the time of purchase. Unintended human error.

 

[8 legged]

Good morning! This is the dcf! Definitly!
Nice!

 

[Smotzer]

Update: After speaking with the vendor, there is a 99.9% chance the above. P. murinus is actually a P. murinus Kigoma. Misidentified at the time of purchase. Unintended human error.

Thhis makes sense! Gorgeous eithher way I love with DCF varieties and locales!

 

[Frogdaddy]

It's shaping up to be a busy weekend. In addition to feeding some spiders I have 6 specimens to rehouse.
1. Acanthoscurria geniculata
2. Brachypelma boehmei
3. Caribena versicolor
4. Chromatopelma cyanopubescens
5. Nhandu tripepii
6. Tliltocatl albopilosus

 

[Frogdaddy]

Well lots and lots of molts over the last few weeks.
A. geniculata
B. auratum
B. baumgarteni
C. versicolor
C. cyanopubescens
N. chromatys
N. tripepii
P. murinus Kigoma
P. auratus
P. sp. Dominican Purple


I definitely need to take some more photos since this last round of molts and rehouses.

 

[thedragonslapper]

It's shaping up to be a busy weekend. In addition to feeding some spiders I have 6 specimens to rehouse.
1. Acanthoscurria geniculata
2. Brachypelma boehmei
3. Caribena versicolor
4. Chromatopelma cyanopubescens
5. Nhandu tripepii
6. Tliltocatl albopilosus

Sounds fun.

 

[Frogdaddy]

Nacho Libre my B. boehmei molted last night.

 

[Frogdaddy]

My new phone has a macro function built into the camera. Naturally we want to play with these things and test them out.
This is currently my smallest sling a Brachyplema baumgarteni.
First regular photos in it's 4 oz. condiment cup.

A little closer.

Macro shot.

As you can see it's a pretty small sling. It's not bad for a cell phone camera I guess. Now to take some photos of something a little larger..

 

[Frogdaddy]

I took a few photos will feeding a few spiders tonight.
Brachyplema boehmei
Grammostola rosea
Phormictopus sp. Dominican Purple




Not bad for a cell phone.

 

[Frogdaddy]

My C. versicolor molted about two weeks ago. This morning I discovered it did some housecleaning and threw out the old molt. Right into the water dish. It had to have done this on purpose.

 

[Frogdaddy]

Yansa, my G. iheringi just flipped over to molt.