Tarantulas everywhere!
Jun. 24th, 2009 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderwomanThis post shall solely be dedicated to tarantulas! Now I've mentioned my spiders before I believe, and up until this morning, I only had two tarantula spiderlings. My first was Thor, a Grammostola pulchripes (formerly aureostriata), and my second was Pumpkin, a Pamphobeteus sp. "platyomma".
These are some before and after shots of Thor, after he molted.
Left is before, right is after.
He's paler in the right photo because he hadn't quite hardened completely yet.
And this is a photo of Pumpkin, which I took about a week before he molted.
Eventually I'll get around to taking descent photos of him now that he's larger.
I get my little darlings from Tarantula Canada, run by two awesome people in Montreal, Amanda Gollaway and Martin Gamache. Anyhow, I'd made an order for two more little spiderlings, and they were to arrive yesterday morning. But something went horribly wrong. Somewhere along the line, Canada Post managed to lose the package with my two live tarantulas. Yes. They lost live animals in the mail.
So as you can imagine, I called up my breeders to find out why my package had not arrived, as it was supposed to arrive by noon yesterday. And this is how I found that out. But Amanda was wonderful. She took care of business and told me she would have two new T's sent to me the next day, this time via UPS. Well this morning at quarter to 9AM, my doorbell rang, and it was the UPS guy with my box of tarantulas, yay!
And to my pleasant surprise, there were more than just my two originally ordered tarantulas in there! There were another two that Amanda had sent along for free in compensation the time I lost taking it off work the day prior and just the hassle in general. Tarantula Canada is a very well run business and the people who run it are dedicated and do their best to make certain their spiders arrive alive and healthy, and that their customers are happy and satisfied. I'm definitely going to keep purchasing my T's from them in the future.
But anyhow... Here are some photos I took this morning, upon receiving the package with my new babies.
It's actually kind of funny, because I only just received my first spiderling tarantula (Thor) in January of this year. In 6 months I've managed to collect 5 more tarantulas haha... and lord knows how many more I'll wind up with someday! At the moment I'm a little concerned, because both my N. coloratovillus and my regular G. rosea are very, very small. Their size in itself isn't a problem, but feeding them certainly is. My Thor is a good 4 times their size and even he can't yet consume live crickets, not even pinheads. I have to feed him cricket larvae instead. I'm just wondering if I'll be able to find larvae for all 5 of them, or if the red G. rosea and the B. vagans might be willing to eat pinhead crickets, unlike Thor. It's all a little worrisome, anyway.
But anyhow... if any of you are wondering what my little ones will look like full grown... here are some photos, care of Tarantula Canada!
These are some before and after shots of Thor, after he molted.
Left is before, right is after.
He's paler in the right photo because he hadn't quite hardened completely yet.
And this is a photo of Pumpkin, which I took about a week before he molted.
Eventually I'll get around to taking descent photos of him now that he's larger.
I get my little darlings from Tarantula Canada, run by two awesome people in Montreal, Amanda Gollaway and Martin Gamache. Anyhow, I'd made an order for two more little spiderlings, and they were to arrive yesterday morning. But something went horribly wrong. Somewhere along the line, Canada Post managed to lose the package with my two live tarantulas. Yes. They lost live animals in the mail.
So as you can imagine, I called up my breeders to find out why my package had not arrived, as it was supposed to arrive by noon yesterday. And this is how I found that out. But Amanda was wonderful. She took care of business and told me she would have two new T's sent to me the next day, this time via UPS. Well this morning at quarter to 9AM, my doorbell rang, and it was the UPS guy with my box of tarantulas, yay!
And to my pleasant surprise, there were more than just my two originally ordered tarantulas in there! There were another two that Amanda had sent along for free in compensation the time I lost taking it off work the day prior and just the hassle in general. Tarantula Canada is a very well run business and the people who run it are dedicated and do their best to make certain their spiders arrive alive and healthy, and that their customers are happy and satisfied. I'm definitely going to keep purchasing my T's from them in the future.
But anyhow... Here are some photos I took this morning, upon receiving the package with my new babies.
Those small containers are what the tarantula spiderlings come packed in.
The gauze is kept damp, and the spiderlings are delicately folded
inside and packed into the container.
This is my Grammostola rosea, isn't he absolutely tiny and adorable?
I had originally made an order for this one.
And this is another Grammostola rosea, but this time of the red colour form,
another 'sling I had originally intended to purchase.
This is a Brachypelma vagans, one of the free spiderlings I was sent for my troubles.
The gauze is kept damp, and the spiderlings are delicately folded
inside and packed into the container.
This is my Grammostola rosea, isn't he absolutely tiny and adorable?
I had originally made an order for this one.
And this is another Grammostola rosea, but this time of the red colour form,
another 'sling I had originally intended to purchase.
This is a Brachypelma vagans, one of the free spiderlings I was sent for my troubles.
And this tiny little dear (even smaller than the first G. rosea, believe it or not) is a
Nhandu coloratovillosus, the other free tarantula I was lucky enough to receive.
This is the shelf upon which I currently house all my spiders. The largest container
doesn't house a tarantula however, it holds my female wolf spider, Fluffy. Pumpkin's container
is the hexagon shaped one in the back. All the others hold smaller spiderlings.
Nhandu coloratovillosus, the other free tarantula I was lucky enough to receive.
This is the shelf upon which I currently house all my spiders. The largest container
doesn't house a tarantula however, it holds my female wolf spider, Fluffy. Pumpkin's container
is the hexagon shaped one in the back. All the others hold smaller spiderlings.
It's actually kind of funny, because I only just received my first spiderling tarantula (Thor) in January of this year. In 6 months I've managed to collect 5 more tarantulas haha... and lord knows how many more I'll wind up with someday! At the moment I'm a little concerned, because both my N. coloratovillus and my regular G. rosea are very, very small. Their size in itself isn't a problem, but feeding them certainly is. My Thor is a good 4 times their size and even he can't yet consume live crickets, not even pinheads. I have to feed him cricket larvae instead. I'm just wondering if I'll be able to find larvae for all 5 of them, or if the red G. rosea and the B. vagans might be willing to eat pinhead crickets, unlike Thor. It's all a little worrisome, anyway.
But anyhow... if any of you are wondering what my little ones will look like full grown... here are some photos, care of Tarantula Canada!
This is a female Grammostola pulchripes, Thor's species.
The males look the same if slightly slimmer.
The males look the same if slightly slimmer.
This is what Pumpkin, my Pamphobeteus sp. "platyomma" will look like if a female.
But if male... he will grow up to look like this!
My Grammostola rosea will grow up to look like this if male,
and slightly less furry and less bright if female.
I.E. more like this if it's a girl.
My red colour form G. rosea will turn out like this. The females look the same, but are bulkier.
My Brachypelma vagans will grow up into this if female, and simply leaner and longer legged if male.
And finally, my Nhandu coloratovillosus will look like this if female.
And like this if male.
But if male... he will grow up to look like this!
My Grammostola rosea will grow up to look like this if male,
and slightly less furry and less bright if female.
I.E. more like this if it's a girl.
My red colour form G. rosea will turn out like this. The females look the same, but are bulkier.
My Brachypelma vagans will grow up into this if female, and simply leaner and longer legged if male.
And finally, my Nhandu coloratovillosus will look like this if female.
And like this if male.
Anyhow... it's crazy hot, and I'd like to have some ice cream before bed. That, and I want to try and feed my Nhandu coloratovillosus a small larvae I have, before the thing gets too big to eat haha... Cheers!
