Recent content by plessey

I guess if you are a fan of bureaucracy then this is something to get upset about but unless the spiders were mistreated, badly packed and half of them dead then personally I won't lose any sleep over it. It is a bitter pill for some to swallow but there are probably a lot more spiders/species...

Don't ever recall receiving any paperwork from any European dealers with any tarantula order and I did use to buy a lot of Brachypelma. I do remember there being CITES paperwork for a Dumerils boa though, even had to get it microchipped as well iirc.

Unless there is more going on than mentioned in the article, it seems all he has done is try to take stock from England back over to Northern Ireland and got done for not having paperwork in place as technically this is exporting animals from GB to the EU. Pre-Brexit this would have been...

Do what now?

Yes

The photos are blurry but from what I can make out, your "girl" looks like a mature male and the survival rate for post ultimate moults is not good.

Didn't even need to click on the pic, you can spot the bursa copulatrix a mile off even in the thumbnail.

As far as I can see from the pics, the slit sensilla and arthrodial membrane are easy enough to see but that's about it really. There does appear to be a structure that looks like it could be a gonopore but certainly no sign of any spermathecae, uterus externus or bursa copulatrix (although at...

Nothing to worry about, just a bit of back wash to clean the mouth.

If you are bored enough - https://tarantulaforum.com/threads/a-slightly-in-depth-guide-to-tarantula-anatomy-and-taxonomic-terms.389/

Yeah you need to read it again and there will be a test at the end this time :D

Yep male. The structures you circled in blue are the arthrodial membrane, essentially flexible cuticle that can act as a point of muscle attachment and defines the sides of the epigynum. Give this a read, it might help you out - https://tarantulaforum.com/threads/how-to-sex-your-tarantula.281/

If it was sold to you as Chilobrachys sp. Kontum then why do you think it is something different? The problem is that it is a brown spider with no obvious distinguishing features so no one would be able to give you a positive identification from a couple of photos of the general habitus anyway.

Probably one of my favourite photos that I've taken over the years. Really captures the colours of the cork bark nicely. Unfortunately a spider got in the way :D

Your welcome :)