B.Smithi

[NatashaG]

depends on the T. the only juvie i've had shipped is the A. chalcodes and she's an aggressive mean wench, at least to me. my son can handle her without issue usually. She lets him know when she doesn't want to be messed with though

With some of my Ts, the larger GBB especially, they seem to have mood swings from one molt to the next. they'll be fine and out and about until the molt, then their skittish and hiding the whole time, then that may change the next molt.

All of the ones i've ordered haven't showed any travel lag except one, the B. albiceps i got with the horrible (yes i used that word again) packing a few weeks back. Usually they all have eaten a few hours after they arrived and were housed. This one was sluggish and not moving well that whole evening, but ate the next day and has since buried himself in his burrow.

Oh dear, I hope all goes well with your T It took me a long time to pluck up the courage to order one, you hear all sorts on-line about bad packaging...
In the future I'd love to raise one from a sling, it sounds very satisfying

 

[Sam Sam]

It's awesome.

 

[kormath]

Oh dear, I hope all goes well with your T It took me a long time to pluck up the courage to order one, you hear all sorts on-line about bad packaging...
In the future I'd love to raise one from a sling, it sounds very satisfying

1 order out of 16 had bad packaging. New vendor I tried and needless to say they failed.

It is, i love watching them grow up into their colors, and they're just as or maybe even more ferocious as a little sling than they are as adults. Must be the extra energy all young things have

 

[Sam Sam]

With you on this @kormath , looks more like boheimi to me too, and/or maybe even emelia as would expect red to the final leg segment on boheimi. Trying to see if there is defined triangle on carapace to rule out the emelia. Either way @Sam Sam, looking good and whether it is smithi, boheimi or emelia, thay are all stunners and you obviously enjoy raising them

Looked this up and it seems I may have a Emelia instead. The carapace has different colouring on it. A triangle which is the same colour as the chelicerae. Thinking it's prob not a Boehmei because of this and because the red colouring doesn't go all the way down.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Now I'm going to rehearse my telephone conversation with the seller. [emoji14]

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[Sam Sam]

Obviously I will wait until I can be sure before I go ranting and raving.

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[Phil]

Obviously I will wait until I can be sure before I go ranting and raving.

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Emelia are a lovely species. I am lucky to have smithi, boheimi and emelia.

 

[Sam Sam]

You are very lucky @Phil

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[kormath]

Emelia are a lovely species. I am lucky to have smithi, boheimi and emelia.

me too at least when the emelia and smithi get big enough to show their colors.

So if the emilia is called the "True red leg" what's the false one? i don't know of any other "red leg" in the genus. Unless arachnophiliac.info is referring to the boehmei "fire leg". Then again like most care sheets they don't have a clue "Humidity must not fall below 55%!" lol

 

[Sam Sam]

I do have an Emelia. Ordered my Smithi which will arrive tomorrow and phoned the original seller....he asked me if I wanted to swap it! I said no. Asked me if I wanted him to call me when he gets one in although he can't guarantee it will be a smithi. Guy started laughing at me when I asked to speak to someone regarding a T purchase I had made...Asked me what I needed to know...ha.. Love how his tone changed once he realised I actually knew more than him and I'm still learning.

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[Phil]

I do have an Emelia. Ordered my Smithi which will arrive tomorrow and phoned the original seller....he asked me if I wanted to swap it! I said no. Asked me if I wanted him to call me when he gets one in although he can't guarantee it will be a smithi. Guy started laughing at me when I asked to speak to someone regarding a T purchase I had made...Asked me what I needed to know...ha.. Love how his tone changed once he realised I actually knew more than him and I'm still learning.

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I had my suspicions it would be emelia because of the lack of red to last leg segment (boheimi) and although picture was a bit fuzzy, there did appear to be the tell tale triangle on carapace too. My emelia (Shelby) is small and so not too different to yours. Photo taken after last molt (colours more solid now)

 

[Phil]

me too at least when the emelia and smithi get big enough to show their colors.

So if the emilia is called the "True red leg" what's the false one? i don't know of any other "red leg" in the genus. Unless arachnophiliac.info is referring to the boehmei "fire leg". Then again like most care sheets they don't have a clue "Humidity must not fall below 55%!" lol

Good point, well made. Always seen boheimi classed commonly as either blood or fire leg, never red so don't know where the "true" red leg came from on the emelia, maybe it's because, the knee bones connected to the leg bone.....lol I know. They don't have hones cos of exoskeletons before the pedantic police arrest me......lol

 

[Sam Sam]

Looks just like Tango. So cute!!

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[Phil]

Looks just like Tango. So cute!!

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Thank you