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For once I had no attempted escapes, everyone behaved beautifully.
I started by moving Tinto, a Brachypelma albopilosum, into a 12"x10"x10" terrarium and I'm hoping she'll have a long and happy life in there.
Next was the one I was dreading. Ratta, my Thrigmopoeus truculentus, is fast and had filled its home with web. I began by removing the lid as you do and to my surprise everything lifted out too, plant, water bowl and cork bark but T and substrate stayed making it easier to catch the T. You can just see Ratta between the plant and the cork.
Phormingochilus sp. Rufus, Ayu, has been reclusive and all I'd see was a flash of movement so it was good to get a decent pic.
Omothymus violaceopes, Kallang. There have been times I feared this one had died, not seen it for many, many months but food vanished and there were signs of some slight rearrangements to tunnels so today it was great to see Kallang.
Cyriopagopus sp Hati Hati, Sula, is another I haven't seen for months, just a butt occasionally.
Uvita, the Sphaerobothria hoffmanni is one I see a lot of, always skittering around its tunnels
Orphnaecus sp. Blue Quezon, Pasig, is another that I never see and at one point thought it must have died until a moult appeared on the surface.
The last one for today was little Toro, my Stichoplastoris asterix who wasn't so much in need of a larger home but had managed to get its cork bark right to the bottom of its vial and had barely any room left in its burrow.
I started by moving Tinto, a Brachypelma albopilosum, into a 12"x10"x10" terrarium and I'm hoping she'll have a long and happy life in there.
Next was the one I was dreading. Ratta, my Thrigmopoeus truculentus, is fast and had filled its home with web. I began by removing the lid as you do and to my surprise everything lifted out too, plant, water bowl and cork bark but T and substrate stayed making it easier to catch the T. You can just see Ratta between the plant and the cork.
Phormingochilus sp. Rufus, Ayu, has been reclusive and all I'd see was a flash of movement so it was good to get a decent pic.
Omothymus violaceopes, Kallang. There have been times I feared this one had died, not seen it for many, many months but food vanished and there were signs of some slight rearrangements to tunnels so today it was great to see Kallang.
Cyriopagopus sp Hati Hati, Sula, is another I haven't seen for months, just a butt occasionally.
Uvita, the Sphaerobothria hoffmanni is one I see a lot of, always skittering around its tunnels
Orphnaecus sp. Blue Quezon, Pasig, is another that I never see and at one point thought it must have died until a moult appeared on the surface.
The last one for today was little Toro, my Stichoplastoris asterix who wasn't so much in need of a larger home but had managed to get its cork bark right to the bottom of its vial and had barely any room left in its burrow.
