[cacoseraph]

HI!

welcome to my tarantula thread. i got sick of making a billion threads so i am going to try to have virtually all of my tarantula stuff in here :) we shall see how it goes :) also, fair warning... i am going to repost stuff of mine that i like, so i can have it all in one place. so this will be a place for the best of old and new cacoseraph tarantula stuff. i hope.

i am going to try to have a post for each species and edit those posts to kind of keep *some* kind of order in my freaked up little world :D

This post has been edited by cacoseraph: 30 November 2006 - 11:04 AM

[fang2012]

DUDE!! This is BOMB!! :rockon:

[cacoseraph]

@fang heh, thanks :)

Heteroscodra maculata

Hmaculata_adult_fem_handleabout
3:09
Heteroscodra maculata are fast and fairly venomous Old World arboreal tarantulas. They come from Central and West Africa. This is a wild caught (WC) mature female, and is around 4-5" diagonal legspan.

A lot of the african tarantulas are kind of crazy. If they have arboreal or semi-arboreal tendencies and body builds they will just take random flying leaps when you are free handling them. They continue to do this for just about the whole lives, but small spiderlings are truly nuts!

Always interesting with these fellows :)

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Here is a set of pics from that H.mac' session :)


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Hmaculata_adult_fem_hand01a.jpg
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Hmaculata_adult_fem_hand02a.jpg
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i like the poses she struck in these last three

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Hmaculata_adult_fem_hand03a.jpg
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Hmaculata_adult_fem_hand04.jpg

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This post has been edited by cacoseraph: 30 November 2006 - 11:03 AM

[cacoseraph]

Cyclosternum fasciatum
My adult female is very calm compared to what i have seen of the species. I have free handled her a couple times and plan to some more :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Cfasciatum_new_fem_hand01a.jpg
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/NW/Cyclosternum/Cfasciatum_new_fem05a.jpg
"face" zoom

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/NW/Cyclosternum/Cfasciatum_new_fem06a.jpg
"booty" zoom

Cfasciatum_juv_abouthandle
2:31
Cyclosternum fasciatum, "Costa rican tigerrump tarantula". Free handling and talking about a tigerrump.

This is a smaller, more nervous species that has gorgeous coloration. Mature females probably don't get much bigger than 4"/10cm legspan and males are considerably smaller, i believe.

The fresh babies are TINY, being able to comfortably stand on the end of a normal No. 2 pencil eraser! The babies are very similarily colored to the adults, with a metallic sheen reddish gold carapace and an AMAZING permanent striping pattern in black and kind of red on their abdomen.

This species does not seem to need special attention to humidty and seems to grow at a moderate speed.

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This post has been edited by cacoseraph: 30 November 2006 - 11:05 AM

[cacoseraph]

Poecilotheria regalis
Indian ornamental tarantula

This is one of my favorite species, for sure! They combine very decent size with striking patterns and color. The can grow pretty quickly and seem to be fairly easy to mate and get viables from.

They do have some pretty potent venom. It will not kill you, but it can hurt and people have gone to the hospital for it plenty of times. They are also a quicker arboreal tarantula, so care should be exercised with them. Free handling them probably isn't a very good idea. *ahem* I like to free handle and interact with my animals for personal reasons and to concretely demonstrate that virtually no invert pet is "agressive", per se.




A mature male.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/OW/Poecilotheria_regalis_mat_male_01A.jpg
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A mature female.
This is Ginjerofer, my beloved gentle giant.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Pregalis_Ginjerofer_freehandling05a.jpg
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Pregalis_Ginjerofer_freehandling01a.jpg
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super purple zoom

and handling vids of Ginny. this vid and the pic was made about 2 weeks before she made an eggsac :)

Pregalis_Ginjerofer_freehandling01

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http://www.youtube.c...h?v=YbuiUaah_hA

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http://www.youtube.c...h?v=qdGYsWaPmu4

This post has been edited by cacoseraph: 30 November 2006 - 01:24 PM

[ShadowSpider]

I'll say it again....you are the most insane man I know! :blink: :P :D

[BrianS]

Great!!! Keep 'em coming. I have wondered what all spp of tarantulas you keep :)

[PoPpiLLs]

This is going to be an amazing thread

[RaZeDaHeLL]

WOW That first spider is stunning! :D

[Joe Xavier]

sigh... i've always loved pokies~

[troutspider66]

dude your togo baboon is freekin sweet and i give you credit you got balls holding some of those t keep it up

[troutspider66]

hey i was watching your videos and i seen a couple of escapes how many critters do you have running around your place?

[cacoseraph]

troutspider66, on Dec 2 2006, 06:36 PM, said:

hey i was watching your videos and i seen a couple of escapes how many critters do you have running around your place?

just room mates and cats are running free. i have recaught everything else :)

[MischiefManaged]

Very cool pics and spiders! The H. mac is a real beauty! :wub:

[cacoseraph]

thanks for all the compliments, fellows (especially from you foxy types =P )

Poecilotheria ornata

This is one amazingly colored tarantula! Fresh of a molt my mature female looks like fireworks!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/OW/Pornata_postmolt02b.jpg

When i first got my female, Aria, she seemed to be kind of nervous. Too nervous for me to consider handling. Over the months she would still do that burst of speed avoidance move sometimes, but with much decreasing frequency. She seems to react similar to how my big regalis does, now, so i decided to try giving her a chance :D

It wasn't that she was ill-behaved or anything, let me say that in the beginning... i just didn't want to *force* a Poeci to do anything! This first group is from my trying to get her to psuedovoluntarily walk on me.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling000_1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling000_2.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling000_3.jpg

Here is the only time she actually did take a like, wrong turn =P
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling000_4.jpg

Finally i ended up doing the "put her on something else, then put her on my hand" thing
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling001a.jpg
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After she finally decided to walk on my hand from that piece of eggcrate she proved to be every bit as tractable as Ginjerofer, my big P. regalis female


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling002a.jpg
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http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/tarantula/handling/Poeci/Pornata_Aria_handling004.jpg

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This post has been edited by cacoseraph: 03 January 2007 - 11:10 AM

[cacoseraph]

cacoseraph, on Dec 3 2006, 07:05 PM, said:

troutspider66, on Dec 2 2006, 06:36 PM, said:

hey i was watching your videos and i seen a couple of escapes how many critters do you have running around your place?

just room mates and cats are running free. i have recaught everything else :)

*ahem*

one time i forgot that the babies were going to be *VERY* small and kept a S. morstians "Egyptian Emerald Centipede" mom brooding a clutch in a cage that the babies streamed out of. i recaptured something like 7 out of 30. one of the recap'eds actually climbed onto my ankle before i felt it. the thing was something like 1-1.5cm long and featherlight. i recovered like ~10 bodies. the last recaptured was a month before i moved and they are small and delicate things so i doubt any survived the move. subsequent to our move i am quite sure they bombed the carp out of our apartment, due to a hideous B. germanica and B. orientalis problem the whole apartment complex suffered. i also think that any forage an escapee opportunistic scavenger/predator would score would be heavily laced with pesticeds aplenty to further limit escapees chances of success.

oh, the praying mantids... i forgot about them. i had a clutch of carolina and a clutch or two of these african fellows escape into my room. i recaptured gads of both and then killed almost them when the dreaded FFF's malnourished and i probably in retrospect also was dehydrating them slightly. but months later i found a male african boy that was larger than my two females that i had manged to raise up till then. this dude had been whacking all the bugs attracted to the window in my room and lived in the windowsill behind my bookcase for something like 3-4 months. it was great!

i dropped a colony of Buthid scorpions one time. Heh, just C. vittatus.... but they definitely *are* buthidae. My very silly self had neglected to count how many vits i had in that container and so i just started snatching all of them and dumping them in a big open substrate making tub i had real handy. so, lesson number ~17 or so i learned was to always know how many bugs i had in a container =P

i'll probably remember more later, heh

[ParabuthusKing]

very nice pics Andrew..i really like the regalis, but am still a little nervous of the speed of pokies..maybe someday, any update on her eggsac? i may buy a half dozen off you if it all works out, best of luck you crazy dude !! haha :)

[Cheez-It]

I always like watching your Youtube videos, very nice P. ornata too.

[Scorpiove]

Wow, very nice :). I have some of the same species...... after watching the videos I need some fresh air! Keep it coming! I've been waiting a long time to see video like these. Pure awesomeness.

[cacoseraph]

thanks fellas

ParabuthusKing, on Jan 2 2007, 05:11 PM, said:

very nice pics Andrew..i really like the regalis, but am still a little nervous of the speed of pokies..maybe someday, any update on her eggsac? i may buy a half dozen off you if it all works out, best of luck you crazy dude !! haha :)

let's uh, not talk about that eggsac ;)

This post has been edited by cacoseraph: 03 January 2007 - 09:06 AM