Tapinauchenius violaceus

[octanejunkie]

Rehoused this bugger last night using the cup and stick method and made a cardboard hood for my catch cup to fit directly on top of the nano tall. Went pretty smoothly.

This morning I found the T exploring all over the enclosure but it bolted when I approached. Here are a few pics of the enclosure

When I first transferred the T, it cowered on one of the lower ficus leaves but within 20 mins it slinked behind the cork bark for the night (I assume) this morning it came out when it because light.

Next step is to replace the screened lid

 

[octanejunkie]

Caught the lil bugger out and about again.


Methinks maybe more foliage on the side walls?

 

[menavodi]

I like that setup...

 

[octanejunkie]

Checked on the tapi over night and this morning; she was on the glass out in the open all night.

I dropped a few crickets in this morning, turned around and found her holding a pair

 

[Enn49]

I guess someone's happy in its new home.

 

[menavodi]

Very nice! She is loving it!

 

[octanejunkie]

Caught our Tapi webbing this morning, of course, the front door

Smile for the camera!

Daylight pic: she started pulling the moss off the ground up into her webbing (front right)

 

[octanejunkie]

What she doesn't know is I positioned a mirror behind her tank on an angle so I can see behind her cork bark hide

She's starting to dig through the front, under the cork bark slab

Silly Tapi

 

[menavodi]

What she doesn't know is I positioned a mirror behind her tank on an angle so I can see behind her cork bark

Sneaky...are you! LOL LOL.
Good idea!

 

[octanejunkie]

Fed the Tapi a pair of large crickets this afternoon, he got one of them and paraded it around the tank; like taking a victory lap.

He was on the front door when we got home today and did not react to me around the tank so I decided to try and feed him right then.

The spider took a few runs at the crickets but didn't have the right position. He rearranged himself 3 or 4 times to get a good vantage point on one of them,; he ended up on the substrate, next to the water dish and just waited in ambush of until he go it. Got this video of the kill.

Audio is the neighbors, please disregard.

Took that opportunity to clean the front glass. This is how it looked when I came home with the crickets.

He was literally just sitting there and didn't move when I opened the top to drop the eats.

 

[menavodi]

He was literally just sitting there and didn't move when I opened the top to drop the eats.

He was patiently waiting for his meal...

 

[octanejunkie]

Lil bugger pooped on the front glass again, dang tree spider

Caught it out in broad daylight, best look at it's colors I've had yet

Just fed it yesterday so I will see if it poops again tonight before cleaning the glass

 

[menavodi]

Lil bugger pooped on the front glass again, dang tree spider

Just fed it yesterday so I will see if it poops again tonight before cleaning the glass

You know it will poop after you clean it! LOL

 

[octanejunkie]

Haven't seen the Tapi out in about 12 days but I have seen it behind it's hide. I wonder what's going on back there...

 

[octanejunkie]

I can see it in it's hide but it won't come out so I decided to send it a meal and see what happened

Put a mature male B lat in a shaker cup and stunned the crap out of it by shaking it like a Bond martini, then placed it at the top of the cork bark slab and it wandered about and down to the T.

She nailed it. Guess she was willing to eat but wanting delivery... stoopid Tapi

 

[menavodi]

I can see it in it's hide but it won't come out so I decided to send it a meal and see what happened

Put a mature male B lat in a shaker cup and stunned the crap out of it by shaking it like a Bond martini, then placed it at the top of the cork bark slab and it wandered about and down to the T.

She nailed it. Guess she was willing to eat but wanting delivery... stoopid Tapi

She trained you well! LOL LOL

 

[octanejunkie]

She trained you well! LOL LOL

They totally do... how owns who?

 

[octanejunkie]

Tapinauchenius violaceous has been out most of the day, I suspect he molted since disappearing and is now appears MM

Calling him Mr Pipe Cleaner now lol

 

[Grandsouls]

Okay, okay your description wasn’t far off lol. Great looking T still though looks like a anorexic curlie lol
Are they sexually dimorphic Matured?
I see lotta pics like yours on google then ones little more plump not quite as hairy and silky and dark violet kinda.

 

[octanejunkie]

Females are stockier (relative to the males of the same sp, not like terrestrials) and more violet/purple while the males get darker and lankier; like mine lol.

He's very outgoing when he's not hiding 65% of the time. Check his coloring from 2 months ago here

Tapinauchenius violaceus

Rehoused this bugger last night using the cup and stick method and made a cardboard hood for my catch cup to fit directly on top of the nano tall. Went pretty smoothly. This morning I found the T exploring all over the enclosure but it bolted when I approached. Here are a few pics of the...

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Today he was out a lot, it was a good picture day. He's still out now.