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Hi guys, I'm new to this forum. I have been keeping T's for a couple of years now and have 9 in total.
One of them is a mystery species, and was thrown in as a freebie when I bought some a few years back. He/she was maybe 3/8" leg span when I got him/her, so really tiny. So far the little critter has been doing just fine, despite me having no clue as to it's natural environment. It has always been plain dark in colour, basically black, no real hairiness to speak of, very fast and skittish and is very much a burrower, although it has webbed up it's enclosure quite heavily.
I rarely see the little monster as it is almost always hiding underground in it's network of tunnels. About two or three weeks ago I found a discarded moult out in the open, so I refrained from feeding for a while. Yesterday I threw a few crickets in there to see if I could entice it out into the open, when all of a sudden it appeared.. looking vastly different from what it did before the moult, it has gone from fairly hairless to very hairy, it has changed from near black to a mid grey colour, although it has black feet that are bald! It is now around 4 inches leg span. Very strange looking thing..
I believe it is supposed to be a Chilobrachys sp. Penang, or so I was told, but it doesn't look like any pictures I've seen of one of those. I will upload a picture, any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers guys!
One of them is a mystery species, and was thrown in as a freebie when I bought some a few years back. He/she was maybe 3/8" leg span when I got him/her, so really tiny. So far the little critter has been doing just fine, despite me having no clue as to it's natural environment. It has always been plain dark in colour, basically black, no real hairiness to speak of, very fast and skittish and is very much a burrower, although it has webbed up it's enclosure quite heavily.
I rarely see the little monster as it is almost always hiding underground in it's network of tunnels. About two or three weeks ago I found a discarded moult out in the open, so I refrained from feeding for a while. Yesterday I threw a few crickets in there to see if I could entice it out into the open, when all of a sudden it appeared.. looking vastly different from what it did before the moult, it has gone from fairly hairless to very hairy, it has changed from near black to a mid grey colour, although it has black feet that are bald! It is now around 4 inches leg span. Very strange looking thing..
I believe it is supposed to be a Chilobrachys sp. Penang, or so I was told, but it doesn't look like any pictures I've seen of one of those. I will upload a picture, any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers guys!
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