I can get 3 adults for £40+delivery, but I don't want 3......
So, you want to keep a pet tarantula?
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Here's the lowdown.
The spiders are unsexed
The spiders are all sub-adult (very nearly full grown)
If female, you have got a spider for 15 years or so
If male, you have it for just over a year, but it can be bred, and you will walk away with 50% of any resulting spiderlings.
They are on a special "Buy 3 for £40" so they all have to go to one address obviously.
Postage is £7.50 on top, making the base price of each spider £15.83.
This is extremely cheap for large H gigas.
To post each spider out would cost £5 Special Delivery.
This makes the cost of each tarantula £20.83, which is still the cheapest I've seen them.
I'd be happy to buy and redistribute them - for the main reason that these are mean beasts, which will be a serious handful to pack and send.
Balls in your court guys...
(PS something like this would probably normally be classed as "bulk buying" but as we are dealing with something rather specialist and wholly unrelated to OcUK as a business I think it can be allowed - I'll double check with Spie)
The spiders are unsexed
The spiders are all sub-adult (very nearly full grown)
If female, you have got a spider for 15 years or so
If male, you have it for just over a year, but it can be bred, and you will walk away with 50% of any resulting spiderlings.
They are on a special "Buy 3 for £40" so they all have to go to one address obviously.
Postage is £7.50 on top, making the base price of each spider £15.83.
This is extremely cheap for large H gigas.
To post each spider out would cost £5 Special Delivery.
This makes the cost of each tarantula £20.83, which is still the cheapest I've seen them.
I'd be happy to buy and redistribute them - for the main reason that these are mean beasts, which will be a serious handful to pack and send.
Balls in your court guys...
(PS something like this would probably normally be classed as "bulk buying" but as we are dealing with something rather specialist and wholly unrelated to OcUK as a business I think it can be allowed - I'll double check with Spie)
It's always pretty exciting holding one of your spiders for the first time, no matter how large or small they are.Originally posted by Nexus
Whaoo, held one of my Ts for the first time. Was showing my brother them and my B.Smithi Tequila seemed quite calm and walked up the side of the container, so I put my hand to the side and she climbed right on. Had a walk around and then stopped.
We were thinking that I imagine with how sensitive to vibration they are that they must be able to feel the blood pumping through the veins in my hand.
With the container being so small, it proved a challange to get her back in, as obviously I dont want to just throw her off my hand and back in. We had to resort to getting a piece of card, however she kept strolling the wrong direction towards the container, after some failed attempts she finally got back in.
Was really cool though, even in their small size you can still feel their little feet plodding around.
Once they stop on your hand it can be seriously tricky to get them to move again - Kate's Rio and Jez are extremely stubborn and absolutely refuse to budge without literally shoving them off your hand.
Glad she's finally arrived.Originally posted by Repo
Just as I was getting annoyed that my Costa Rican Zebra hadn't arrived (the postie had already been & he usually brings the small to medium sized parcels too) there was another knock on the door & guess who arrived
(No it wasn't the spider knocking
I've put her in her new home & am gonna let her warm up whilst I go back to bed and get some more sleep. I think I've judged the tank size ok - it's an Aquazoo3 from Easy Exotics - it's about 2x her legspan by 3x her leg span.
w00t!!!
Pics will follow as soon as I borrow a cam again
What's the colouring like? Some A seemanni are a chocolate brown, others are almost jet black with bold white stripes. The colouring varies immensely from one individual to the next.
Came home this afternoon to find my Cobalt Blue, Bangkok, has moulted at last.
More exciting is the fact that he has totally changed colour!
Check out the blue sheen on each leg
This will get darker and more prominent over time
Oh - and I do NOT reccommend you attempt to handle this species, for your own safety!
More exciting is the fact that he has totally changed colour!
Check out the blue sheen on each leg
This will get darker and more prominent over time
Oh - and I do NOT reccommend you attempt to handle this species, for your own safety!
Couple more pics I forgot to post last week:
Guarico - can't believe how much this one has grown lately
For scale, Winston (note the similarity between Winston and Guarico, who are both from the same genus)
And one of Pele also for scale:
Guarico - can't believe how much this one has grown lately
For scale, Winston (note the similarity between Winston and Guarico, who are both from the same genus)
And one of Pele also for scale:
How's the new auratum settling in? They're really nice T's.
Just a quick update, a couple more moults over the past few days.
First off, Idi has finally shed and regrown his dodgy legs
Examination of the skin leads me to think it's a male, currently having a nice debate about it on Arachnopets!
Punta has moulted for the second time in a month:
And I moved Maz to a bigger tank which he has completely filled with web
Just a quick update, a couple more moults over the past few days.
First off, Idi has finally shed and regrown his dodgy legs
Examination of the skin leads me to think it's a male, currently having a nice debate about it on Arachnopets!
Punta has moulted for the second time in a month:
And I moved Maz to a bigger tank which he has completely filled with web
Azrael,
I'm really tired so I'll keep this post short, but I can tell you your T is a Brachypelma boehmei, IMO the best looking Brachy of them all.
I'm really tired so I'll keep this post short, but I can tell you your T is a Brachypelma boehmei, IMO the best looking Brachy of them all.
Re: Condensation
When the condensation stops (might be a while) then place a small water dish in the warm end of the tank and keep it topped up. I use old coke bottle lids for small spiders.
Also do you have plenty of ventilation on the lid? T's like plenty of good airflow so you need plenty of holes.
Gender by a picture is very tricky until the spider is nearly mature - to be certain you need to have a recently shed skin examined
You always get condensation at first because peat comes in damp, so all that water needs to evaporate. Don't add any more water or mist at all until you stop getting condensation.
When the condensation stops (might be a while) then place a small water dish in the warm end of the tank and keep it topped up. I use old coke bottle lids for small spiders.
Also do you have plenty of ventilation on the lid? T's like plenty of good airflow so you need plenty of holes.
Gender by a picture is very tricky until the spider is nearly mature - to be certain you need to have a recently shed skin examined
The main problem with lights is that they really dehydrate the T very quickly. Think of it as a worm with a hard skin and you will understand why extreme dryness is so bad for them - they literally dry out.
If you are just filming for a while then a red light will be fine. It's the dry heat for prolonged periods that causes a problem.
Try and keep your tank at 2 or 3 times the size of the spider.
So, for a 3" spider you want a tank 9" long at the most.
Peat looks good asa substrate but is a paradise for mould and mites - a totally foolproof option is to use vermiculite which is virtually sterile (it's pretty cheap too)
You need a water dish, but not a feeding dish. Although if you feed mealworms a dish can come in handy to stop them burrowing underground.
Beginner spider? There is so much choice!
And my last one for this morning...
What difference a moult makes! A couple of months ago I purchased my baby Pinktoe. As you know, Pinktoes begin life with black toes and pink legs - the reverse of adults.
With his last moult, Pele began to get faint green streaks on his knees, so I wondered if he would go gradually green or transform completely with one moult.
Here he is a few weeks ago:
Note the pink legs and black toes.
And here he is just before the moult:
See how the legs have gone dark? This is the new exoskeleton forming underneath the old skin, showing through.
And here he is just after moulting:
As you can see he's extremely pale, but already has noticably green hairs all over his legs, and his toes have turned pink
And finally, taken just now:
He has hardened overnight to a deep blue-green.
In this picture the camera does him no justice, he is utterly utterly stunning.
What difference a moult makes! A couple of months ago I purchased my baby Pinktoe. As you know, Pinktoes begin life with black toes and pink legs - the reverse of adults.
With his last moult, Pele began to get faint green streaks on his knees, so I wondered if he would go gradually green or transform completely with one moult.
Here he is a few weeks ago:
Note the pink legs and black toes.
And here he is just before the moult:
See how the legs have gone dark? This is the new exoskeleton forming underneath the old skin, showing through.
And here he is just after moulting:
As you can see he's extremely pale, but already has noticably green hairs all over his legs, and his toes have turned pink
And finally, taken just now:
He has hardened overnight to a deep blue-green.
In this picture the camera does him no justice, he is utterly utterly stunning.
In the wild they construct deep burrows or live in encloised spaces between tree branches.
We cannot replicate this in captivity, so we need to create an enclosed space for them, which they treat as the entirety of the burrow.
The spider generally just huddles in the corner hunched up, and won't burrow or web properly. If it thinks the whole tank is just a burrow, it will be far more likely to wander about and explore - I've noticed this with all of my tarantulas - moving Mugabe to a small tank is the best thing I ever did, now he has filled the ENTIRE tank with web, and spends his time stomping around the various tunnels.
That's just about perfect mate
The cork bark provides additional shelter.
A nice arch of bark like Well Splattered has would give the T a lot more security.
Personally, I'd reduce the tank a fair old bit. It's up to you at the end of the day - if she seems happy in the big tank then fine
Anyway, I forgot to post a few new pics this morning.
As some of you will have read, Roger the gay male Chile Rose has been totally reluctant to mate with Pepper, normally freezing or running away.
Well, today I decided to throw him back into the arena on the off-chance, and lo and behold he went for it!
I'm going to attempt a repeat pairing later this week, and then hopefully in a couple of months she will come up with an eggsac!
Got a bit more news too.
I decided to replace Carabobo, my Greenbottle Blue who died from the results of a bad moult.
I wanted another GBB ideally, but there aren't many on the market, so I decided to feed my fetish for Asian tarantulas instead.
It's not often I buy adult or sub-adult spiders, but the price was right for this one:
As yet unnamed, this nasty piece of work is a Haplopelma sp. "longipedum"
Formerly known as Cyriopagopus paganus, they are awaiting official reclassification.
It's big, (5" and still has lots of growing to do) black, and has a mean streak the length of the great wall of China.
Luckily it was very very stressed and cold from postage, and I had no bother moving it into a new tank. After a couple of hours warming up the attitude appeared - I filled up the water bowl nearly an hour ago and this sucker is still in full threat pose.
I've wanted one of these evil suckers for ages, hopefully this one will turn out to be female so she can be bred.
I decided to replace Carabobo, my Greenbottle Blue who died from the results of a bad moult.
I wanted another GBB ideally, but there aren't many on the market, so I decided to feed my fetish for Asian tarantulas instead.
It's not often I buy adult or sub-adult spiders, but the price was right for this one:
As yet unnamed, this nasty piece of work is a Haplopelma sp. "longipedum"
Formerly known as Cyriopagopus paganus, they are awaiting official reclassification.
It's big, (5" and still has lots of growing to do) black, and has a mean streak the length of the great wall of China.
Luckily it was very very stressed and cold from postage, and I had no bother moving it into a new tank. After a couple of hours warming up the attitude appeared - I filled up the water bowl nearly an hour ago and this sucker is still in full threat pose.
I've wanted one of these evil suckers for ages, hopefully this one will turn out to be female so she can be bred.
My Tiger rump has moulted twice in my care - it will take big crickets readily which is always nice.
Mine isn't too secretive, but then I don't give it the chance to be, as it is only in a small container.
The new arrival is settling in, shame it's the Devil incarnate.
Not really happy with the tank it's in at the moment, might make something customised, as it ideally needs to be deep and reasonably narrow.
Mine isn't too secretive, but then I don't give it the chance to be, as it is only in a small container.
The new arrival is settling in, shame it's the Devil incarnate.
Not really happy with the tank it's in at the moment, might make something customised, as it ideally needs to be deep and reasonably narrow.
It's really nice getting them in new tanks isn't it? That new tank is just about right for a large arboreal (Trinidad Chevrons get up to around 6" in legspan)
New tanks and substrate really freshen up even spiders you've had for years
New tanks and substrate really freshen up even spiders you've had for years
The spider wouldn't use it.Originally posted by Bungee
Nice tank si_sleaf
Maybe you could put in half a plant pot for it to hide in?
Trinidad Chevrons are arboreal, and tend to make camouflaged webs in trees or near the base of bushes etc.
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