The 'kids'

[Formerphobe]

LP "Huevos"

and her brother "Llaves", who was a bit feisty today and refused his roach. Hopefully he is contemplating a molt.

At the other end of the size spectrum... GBB "Gem", with an LP appetite!

Look at that cute little heiny and spinnerets!

New G. pulchripes "Sebell"

Love this spider! E. pulcherimaklaasi "Guinan"

G. rosea "Orlith" doing her best pokie imitation

B. boehmei "Sorka" recently molted to ~3+ inches

What I see of B. vagans "Menolly" between dawn and dusk

I think this is one of the 'babies', all grown up and drinking from the big bowl.

 

[Formerphobe]

B. boehmei "Lessa" finally on its back! Hope the molt goes as smoothly as its sister's did last week.

C. ritae "Mariska" finally deigned to pose for a pic

New G. pulchra "Ramoth II". Appears this one will soon be joining the molting party.

 

[Formerphobe]

Recent molts
0.1.0 B. boehmei

1.0.0 B. boehmei

0.0.1 A. genic

0.1.0 GBB

0.0.1 M. balfouri on 12/13

Same M. balfouri this evening

 

[Trogdora]

Your balfouri is looking good! I think we got ours from the same batch... mine is just starting to get color.

 

[Formerphobe]

Thanks! I got two of those. The other one looks like this:

LOL

 

[Formerphobe]

For Christmas my 3 H. lividum got new homes.

After carefully scooping out dirt for what seemed like forever, I finally got down to each of them in the deepest recesses of their tunnels. Amazing how small a space they can squeeze themselves into. Then I just spooned them into their new abodes.

This is H. liv #3 "Sambal". I hadn't seen it in months and its prey didn't disappear the last two feedings. Because I wanted to confirm that it was alive, and because I like playing with fire, I opened its little cocoon. Yep, alive! And none too thrilled with me at the moment. All three rehousings went well. Whew!

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My daughters A. versicolor "Amadeus" wanted a new home, too. The other three will have to harden up first, but their new enclosures await.

 

[Formerphobe]

G. pulchra 0.0.1, ~2.5"

First post-molt meal.

B. vagans - instead of going into hiding in prep for molt, she and her big butt have vacated the burrow...

G. pulchripes also thinking about a molt

 

[Formerphobe]

Ephebopus murinus - recently molted and getting its 'bones'

Waiting on sac mate to molt

Four of five Aphonopelma burica. Now a whopping 0.75"

Lured out with a cricket, I got one shot before C. ritae grabbed cricket and dove back into its webbing.

B. albopilosum with an appetite to rival the LPs

Pterinochilus murinus 0.0.1 juvie, ~2.0"

P. murinus immature 1.0.0, ~4+ in

Pretty girl - Aphonopelma sp 'Murietta'

Recently molted 0.1.0 GBB. She's probably 4" now.

 

[Formerphobe]

Brachypelma vagans finishing her molt

Molt measures a solid 3.0 inches

All scrunched up she measures at 2.5 inches

Definitely a girl!

Exuvium potpourri

 

[Formerphobe]

Freshly molted B. smithi. Boy spider.

N. chromatus - gangly teenaged stage

C. ritae - molted about 24 hours after this pic was taken

B. emelia

 

[Formerphobe]

 

[Formerphobe]

Rehoused three more A. versi. I was a container short, so one of them is in an oddball container. Two of the three took their crickets within moments of being rehoused. Guess they weren't too stressed by the rehousing.

"Amadeus" on the left, was rehoused last week and has had more time to redecorate.

 

[Formerphobe]

B. vagans - taking awhile to recover from molt. No doubt! She grew hugely! Exuvium measured solid 3". As positioned here, DLS with legs not fully extended is almost 4".

Her sac mate

Freshly molted GBB

Cheeky juvenile male B. boehmei

C. ritae feeding frenzy... These guys are characters

 

[jbm150]

I love that A. sp. Murietta, has a certain klaasi look to it

 

[Formerphobe]

I love that A. sp. Murietta, has a certain klaasi look to it

I hadn't thought of that. She does have a muted klassi appearance. Dr. Hendrixson was doing DNA on some of this bunch. May turn out to be a chalcodes variation.

 

[Formerphobe]

Freshly molted GBB female

Freshly molted GBB sling. All four GBBs (three different sacs and ages) have molted within the past week.

Mystery T gives me a single slow motion hair kick with the off hind leg...

I fed him anyway. LOL

E. murinus fresh molt

"Belinda"

 

[Formerphobe]

Another fresh molt

Look at that mirror patch!

What I normally see of my N. chromatus

Cocky little C. ritae

A. seemanni thinking about pre-molt... hoping to see some more colors with this next molt.

G. pulchra youngster

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Monocentropus balfouri peeking at me from its web tunnel.

 

[Formerphobe]

Aphonopelma seemanni molt. Looks like a boy (?)

 

[Formerphobe]

A. seemanni

B. vagans, immature male

 

[arachnidtobias]

Envious

Jesus, you have so many! My o my you're fortunate. I only own two..