Cute little babies...

[Tarcan]

Here are some new hatchlings from this morning... so cute, vulnerable and innocent!LOL

[Tarcan]

Different angle of the eggsac...

Most of the eggs went bad, I do not know yet how many made it... but not much... maybe 30 max...

Ah well, I have another gravid female waiting to pop...

[Tarcan]

Unfortunatly, I expect this H. lividum eggsac to be infertile...

We shall see in a week or so...

[Tarcan]

Here is my Holothele incei Stallion!LOL

He is with it's third female right now... lucky bugger... after this one, he still have one to go...

As you can see, mature males if this species are much paler... almost whitish...

Enjoy

Martin

[TheRedDragon]

Congrats Tarcan! Those slings are really cute. :) What ssp are the little ones?

[Tarcan]

Oh, yeah, interesting forgotten detail!LOL

They are A. avicularia, so no need for everyone to get hyper excited... does not mean they are not a nice species, it is just that they are super easy to breed...

But... my male A. huriana just matured and my two females are ready... this is a VERY good reason to be excited! (for me at least, as they are by far my favourite species of the avicularia genus...)

[Dragoon]

There ya go, Erin!
You can get 5 baby pinktoes in Sally's memory, and name them all after a letter in her name! You're bound to get another long-lived female or two out of the group!

Congrats, congrats Mr. Gamache! Beautiful photos and nice events! The pic of the incei is gorgeous. What a nice spider.

I am curious though.
If the lividum was mated, and she made a sac before molting, why do you think it may be infertile?
D.

[Tarcan]

Well, it could, I have not witnessed actual insertion, I was too tired and went to sleep, got tired of waiting!LOL Lazy me!LOL But the female was responsive at first... it is the munched male the next day that hints me!LOL

And the other problem is that this female was in a cool part fo my room as I do not keep my H. lividum vextremely warm, and I found her with the sac... but only a few days at cool Temp can prove fatal for the eggs...

Anyway, I still hope...

Martin

[Vanan]

Good stuff Martin! Good luck on your Holothele matings and your H. lividum's eggsac! *fingers crossed*

I agree with you on the A. avics. May not be a rare species but a cool one nonetheless. What method did you use for the eggsac? Was your survival ratio decent for your method of incubation? Still trying to figure out the best incubation. Maternal or Hammock-style! If I had the dough, I'd build that automated turner thingamajiggy! :D

[Tarcan]

Vanan,

I always remove the eggsac from the mother after about two weeks... I do not like the hammock style either... I keep the eggs in the sac, but incubate the whole sac... I find removing the eggs from the sac puts them vulnarable to dehydration, fungus, etc.

The bad eggs were already bad when I removed the sac from the female (I always open the sac to check, but stitch back... always useful to be an embalmer... I am good at stitching!LOL)...

The male I used was very old, and I wonder if that could be the reason, who knows... this same female gave me about 80 slings at her previous molt and none eggs were bad in the first place (I screwed up in making incubation experiements, there might have been 120 in the first place)... I have another mated female with the same male... I am looking forward to the ratio of good and bad eggs...

Take care

Martin

[manville]

congrats on the sac...

[Yve]

innocent??...I don't think so!:D....although definately cute!

[~Suntiger~]

Awwww, so cute!!! :D

[Cruciform]

Very neat :) I just wish spiders didn't creep me out so much.
Stupid learned response.

[Pixie]

Congrats on the babies :) They are adorable!

I think that avic slings are the cutest T slings ever. With those little black boots and fuzziness, I don't think they can be topped in the cute category! lol

Hmmm, I think I need to get me some more! 1 avic sling is not enough and he/she is growing pretty fast!

Pixie

[Tarcan]

Thank you all...

Pixie you are right, Avicularia spp. slings are really cute (with close contenders Pamphobeteus spp. slings... the Xmas pattern does it for me, too amazing!), but the nicest Avicularinae sling of all has to be Iridopelma hirsutum! Too bad they do not keep their nice colors... out of this world...

I remember seeing a really nice picture of I. hirsutum slings posted by Andrew vW on a different board... Andrew, would you do us the favor here please?

All the best

Martin

[Andrew vV]

#1

[Andrew vV]

#2

[Andrew vV]

#3

[Andrew vV]

And a versicolor for the hell of it!!

[Andrew vV]

here it is sorry

[Dragoon]

Thanks for the pictures Andrew!
I take it the first three are the same hirsutum, but at different ages? Does any of that pattern or cherry color remain as adults? (I know, I'll go look it up...)
Also, I read some stuff about pokies being sexable by the color of the stripe down their opisthosomas (it has a name..but I can't remember it right now..), does that occur with any other species? Like this one, maybe?

Good job with the versi pic. Mine was intense blue, but only if I held it at just the right angle under the light. I'm impressed with your pic.
Now my little sling is getting darker with each molt, same with the geroldi, but... they are getting their pink boots!
I also have what was sold to me as A. metallica, so far I'm hopefull...its getting really sparkly.
Cheers
D.

[Andrew vV]

Originally posted by Dragoon
Thanks for the pictures Andrew!
I take it the first three are the same hirsutum, but at different ages?

No, different individuals all together. However, if you reversed pics 2 and 3 though it would be chronographically more correct:)


Does any of that pattern or cherry color remain as adults? (I know, I'll go look it up...)


The pattern does kinda remain, but is really just an outline with creme highlights....there is some red in there as well....Its hard to describe. There are a few pics floating around the net somwhere!

Also, I read some stuff about pokies being sexable by the color of the stripe down their opisthosomas (it has a name..but I can't remember it right now..), does that occur with any other species? Like this one, maybe?

I dont think so, but I've only had an adult male before and that was several years back.
SOME pokies can be sexed like that, and its not 100% depending on size. By the time they reach the size where you can sex them by the stripe, its just as easy to look at the epigastric furrow!

Good job with the versi pic. Mine was intense blue, but only if I held it at just the right angle under the light. I'm impressed with your pic.

Thanks! The original pics are MUCH larger....unfortunately I have to size them down dramatically to post.

Now my little sling is getting darker with each molt, same with the geroldi, but... they are getting their pink boots!
I also have what was sold to me as A. metallica, so far I'm hopefull...its getting really sparkly.

Yeah, touchy subject with the Avics. They are in taxonomic chaos right now....
One of my favorite genera anyways!


Cheers
D.

[Tarcan]

Thanks buddy for the pics... awesome species... I had five but three died! Only left with two, bummer, I do not know what happened... I will try to get some more, but those things fly fast...

Dragoon, from the adult pics I have seen (not too many), the very nice pattern eventually almost all goes away...

And what is that pokie sexing thing? That is funny... send me a link or something, I would like to read about it...

Martin

[Tarcan]

Well, Andrew, I forgot to say, your pics are amazing...

And hey, you needed to put the A. versicolor in the "I want to see some blue" thread! he he Such an amazing species...

All the best

Martin

[Tarcan]

Just to update a little, the H. lividum eggsac went bad... sorry everyone!

[Andrew vV]

Sorry to hear that buddy! That ALWAYS sucks eh?

[Vanan]

:p Better luck next time Martin.

[manville]

that sucks anyways those are some nice avics

[sketchy4]

pretty cool T's and pics you got there

[TheRedDragon]

:jawdrop: Wow Andrew! Your A. versicolor is AMAZING!

[Andrew vV]

Thank you!! LOL Maybe arachnocalendar 2005?? hehe, Im sure I'll come up with some more good entries for that one.....

Thanks again for the compliments

[Tarcan]

Woke this morning and found this!

LOL, I call it divine intervention! LOL

This female molted quite a while ago and was never mated... LOL

Maybe it is the spider messiah coming to earth in an act of god!LOL

Anyway, the pic is nice, that is why I wanted to share it...

Martin

[Tarcan]

Opened that today to have a quick look...

Still very young! I stitched the whole sac and put it back in the incubator...

I will post some more pics later on when the bunch of little buggers are ready to see the world...

Martin

[Dragoon]

Wow!Congratulations!!

But.... HOW???

Here all these wannabe spider breeders are looking for males, and hoping they don't get munched, etc. and you have found a way to parthogenisize T's. hahahahaha
BTW, what species are those eggswithleggs?
Best wishes
D.

[Tarcan]

D.

Another A. avicularia eggsac, the last one for the moment... hoping for other stuff soon...

Martin