Who's molted today

[menavodi]

@Nunua and @Enn49 those skins are getting smaller and smaller!

 

[barefoot]

Help please. I don't think I'm good at this. I hope I posted in the right place.This is a female, right? Just found the shed. Not good with the scientific names. Common name Costa Rican Red Rump.

 

[ilovebrachys]

Help please. I don't think I'm good at this. I hope I posted in the right place.This is a female, right? Just found the shed. Not good with the scientific names. Common name Costa Rican Red Rump.View attachment 38494

i'd say female?

 

[barefoot]

This is the one I was asking about the sex of. I call her? Lucy. They sure do look nice all dressed up don't they? I wonder if they wish they had a place to go?

 

[Arachnoclown]

About 148 molted today...Poecilotheria ornata

 

[Enn49]

About 148 molted today...Poecilotheria ornata View attachment 38504

 

[Tortoise Tom]

Bunch of cool ones today. Left to right:
Asian forest scorpion, Grammostola pulchra, Brachypelma auratum, Brachypelma boehmei, Grammostola pulchripes, and my Harpacitra pulchripes molted into maturity. Its a BOY!

 

[menavodi]

I received some Hysterocrates sp. Benin today and found one that molted during the transport! This one is tiny as well.

 

[menavodi]

I found my smithi to be a mature male this morning: I got him in 2006 as a sling. 13 years. Unreal.

 

[Enn49]

I didn't know they could take that long to mature

 

[menavodi]

I didn't know they could take that long to mature

Me neither. With every molt I was hoping he would be mature...today it happened

 

[Nunua]

Horrible photo, but Sericopelma angustum molted two days ago.

 

[Arachnoclown]

I found my smithi to be a mature male this morning: I got him in 2006 as a sling. 13 years. Unreal.
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If you got documentation you can get him in the record books. They rarely make it to 10 years. I had one make it 12 years once...he was matured for 4 years of it.

 

[MrKrowe]

I found my smithi to be a mature male this morning: I got him in 2006 as a sling. 13 years. Unreal.
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Holy crap. Can we get some of that spider’s genes over here? I wouldn’t feel so bad about ID’ing as a male if I knew the spider would be around for so long.

Can you give some information on how he’s been kept? Environmental factors could be extremely important in synchronising breeding pairs.

Also, maybe it’s time to find him a long-lived old lady. Hundred year old spider coming right up.

 

[menavodi]

If you got documentation you can get him in the record books. They rarely make it to 10 years. I had one make it 12 years once...he was matured for 4 years of it.

I bought the slings during a reptile fair but I don’t know about documentation. I do have pictures during those years...but now since he is adult we will see how long he lives additional.

 

[menavodi]

Holy crap. Can we get some of that spider’s genes over here? I wouldn’t feel so bad about ID’ing as a male if I knew the spider would be around for so long.

Can you give some information on how he’s been kept? Environmental factors could be extremely important in synchronising breeding pairs.

Also, maybe it’s time to find him a long-lived old lady. Hundred year old spider coming right up.

My spider room is about 78-80°F during days and cools down at night to about 73°F. I keep my smithis not too dry. I always have a plant in one part of the terrarium that I keep a little moist. If the plant is doing OK I found it to be ideal for the spiders as well. I feed every 7 days, amount of crickets depends on size. Last time I fed him he collected 6 adult crickets as soon as I put them in.

...and I think he is ready for a young lady! LOL He might like the older ones when he gets old!

 

[Enn49]

My Aphonopelma sp. montane, Rivas has moulted today

 

[spodermin]

My massive C. Ritae molted

 

[spodermin]

My equally massive Heteropoda javana molted on the same day

 

[Nunua]

Freshly molted baby M. balfouri