Charanchulas (& assorted)

Finally made a place to talk about T's without freaking everyone out

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I've still got my beautiful Charlie, tliltocatl albopilosus, curly-haired tarantula, and my gorgeous girl Belle/Bessie, grammastola pulchra, brazilian black

I also have:

neoholothele incei - trinidad olive chromatopelma cyaneopubescebs - green bottle blue brachypelma hamorii - mexican red knee dolichothele exilis - brazilian bronze ybyrapora diversipes - amazon sapphire tliltocatl vagans - mexican red rump pseudhapalopus sp blue - colombian blue dwarf aphonopelma anax - texas tan lasiocyano sazimai - brazilian blue brachypelma boehmi - mexican fireleg thrixopelma cyaneolum - cobalt red rump cyriocosmus elegans - trinidad dwarf scopelobates sericeus (holothele sericea) - dominican republic tarantula homoeomma chilensis - chilean flame

and a little damarchus workmani, orange legged trapdoor spider

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Thrixopelma longicolli sling 💙 my sister got me three of these spiderlings for my birthday a few years ago so that i have a higher chance of one of them being female

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Thrixopelma! One of my faves! Pretty little thing.

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He's so beautiful

He gets fluffier and fluffier, and I love his subtle colours

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New T shelf!

Not my entire collection, but most of it.

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Hi! We've interacted before but from a different blog of mine, I was wondering if you would be up for talking about T's? I want some input in picking out a new species or two but all my friends are arachnophobes.

Sure!

Throw your thoughts at me, I'll see if I can be any help :)

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Sooooo...

A new baby, davus pentaloris, sometimes called the Costa Rican Tiger Rump

I need to get a larger enclosure for him - one of the things about buying online, sometimes there's a difference between 3-4mm to you and 3-4mm to someone else. Just about 3mm and nearly 5mm are very different sizes of T.

I also got a Cyclocosmia latusicosta (Hour Glass Trapdoor spider) you may know him from telling the time

Probably the last time I see his whole body. He wouldn't let go of his tissue, poor baby, all scrunched up in fear

On the topic of trapdoor spiders, you may remember this guy

I hadn't seen him for a few months. No worries usual for a trapdoor, I kept feeding the tub and the crickets disappeared, so that was okay.

And then they stopped disappearing and mold started growing and I thought great, the guy died in the substrate and now the mold from his body has crept up to the surface

So I put the enclosure away for a while until I felt I could deal with it

Skip to today, and I knew I had the hourglass trapdoor coming, so time to clear out and repurpose the enclosure

I'm not 100% sure the spider is dead, or what state it's in if it is, going slow, scraping up a layer of earth at a time with a cup and sifting through it

Some of this earth is excavator special, and some was excavator clay I had left over from my dune geckos, so I came across lumps of clay and would just break them carefully to see if it was spider remains

So I take one ball out and I'm studying it to see if I can recognise any spiderish shapes when I see movement

And my first thought is 'something infested the spider, killed it and ate it and is now growing out of it's so you can imagine the horror

The. Horror.

Anyway, turned out the spider's body was cocooned in this little ball of clay and what I saw moving were dozens of tiny baby spiderlings.

Cute, but I still wasn't sure it was some kind of parasitic thing until the trapdoor spider's body moved!

She is alive! And a mother! And I'm hitting up Arachnoboards because I have zero idea what to do or how to take of these guys, but that was a rollercoaster!

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Grammastola rosea (ex porteri) sling

So fat

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He's got a cricket, look at his cute little fangs! ;_;

That white mass is just the tissue he was shipped in - amazonius germani (formerly pseudoclamoris gigs, AKA Orange Tree Spider) are one of the fastest arboreal New World Ts you can get

I unboxed him inside a tub, inside the bath just in case, but ultimately decided it'd be easiest and less stressful for both of us if I just put the whole thing in and took it out later

I just haven't gotten round to removing it yet

Eventually he'll be lanky, fuzzy, orange and larger - kinda like the orangutan of NW Ts - but I really like his sling colours.

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Lanky boy!

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Grammastola pulchra

I moved her into a smaller house and I think she likes it more. She's not as crunched up afraid as she used to be

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Look how pretty!

GBB slings are so lovely, I almost wish they didn't lose those patterns qhen they get older.

Those legs are already blue though

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My phone made pics dark, but she's already got this bronze glow to her, so pretty!

But fossorial, so I likely won't see her much

I don't mine though, I kinda like 'pet holes'

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Converted the guy who came round to give us a quote for the living room curtains into possible tarantulahood, mwahahaha!

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And yet, he thinks he's hiding?

I can see you!

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very tiny animals fill me w both love & anxiety

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u are divine & please be careful

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I would die for you but please Watch Out

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I was thinking of a microgecko, and then I scrolled down and behold!

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He's got a cricket, look at his cute little fangs! ;_;

That white mass is just the tissue he was shipped in - amazonius germani (formerly pseudoclamoris gigs, AKA Orange Tree Spider) are one of the fastest arboreal New World Ts you can get

I unboxed him inside a tub, inside the bath just in case, but ultimately decided it'd be easiest and less stressful for both of us if I just put the whole thing in and took it out later

I just haven't gotten round to removing it yet

Eventually he'll be lanky, fuzzy, orange and larger - kinda like the orangutan of NW Ts - but I really like his sling colours.

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My little homoeomma chilensis sling died

I don't know why, or how, but I'm gutted

Everyone else is okay, just him.

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Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens aka Green bottle blue aka GBB are gorgeous as adults AND as slings.

Hopefully you can see that through my horrible photos