tom12

et pourqoui pas? i have often sold Poeci spiderlings to newbie's. as long as they have respect for the animal and provide a decent terra (adjusted to their needs) i don't see any problem.... this guy is old and wise enough i think to know that Poeci's can be very fast and a bit more venomous than most of the terrastrials. but to advice him to keep more terrastrials? what if he has no experience and buy's an african, australian or azian terrestrial? these spiders can also be fast/defensive/poisonous. so what is the difference??? as long as people know how the spider can react, and they respect the animal and its needs, then they can 'begin' with whatever spider they like. it's not up to us to decide when people have enough experience to start with a any kind of spider.... my best friend started with Pterinochilus, never had any other spiders than africans, and never had any problem with it. it's my opinion that a forum's job is to provide people/members with 'all' the info they want, and to help them (if we can) and not to tell them what they can or can't do because they just entered the hobby... (except when they are treading their spider in a bad way ) if he wants a Poeci... is it to difficult to tell hem that he can buy it. but must be very carefull with the spider, because it is very fast, can be defensive, and has a very potent venom? and that as long as he provides a decent shelter (eg: wooden log, or something to hide behind), and a terra that is higher than wide, that he most likely would have few problems in raising the spider from sling to adult? and not to handle the spider off course it's not like we are dealing with a 9-year-old child...

johan is correct Cyriopagopus sp 'blue/malaysia/singapore' is changed into Lampropelma violaceopes.... the one's you have the pictures of are sold as 'Haplopelma robustum' or Ornithoctoninae 'sp malasia' so if you keep calling this L.violaceopes then you are going to confuse some people, it's better to call it what johan suggested... there's no need for 2 different species to be called the same

most of the time the males mature much faster as the females. in my group of P. fasciata i already had 3 mature males, no mature female yet. i remove the males once they mature, so my group consists of only females and males (not mature). as long as you don't put a mature male in the group with the adult females there will be no problem regarding an eggsac... (or it must be a phantom-sac) i have enough females out of the groups to put the males to use. but maybe when my groups are big enough, and i have plenty... maybe then i will try putting an adult male back with al the females and see what happens.... but that's something for the future

i have groups together of rufilata (5-70) , formosa (10), pederseni (5-160), fasciata (5-15), miranda (5) , subfusca (3) , regalis (22-55). ( (5-70) means: smallest group of 5 together, biggest group of 70 together ) imo: best ones to keep in group are rufilata, pederseni and fasciata. never had any casualty subfusca is also good, but a bit more expensive to try also: i would NEVER mix 2 different ones together, i have seen some articles where in some cases it was going well, but i would have my doubts about crossbreeding when 1 of the species matures and mates with the other species...

c'est rien (you're welcome ) (je comprends bien la français, mais j'ai des problèmes pour parler et écrirer )

je m'excuse mais je ne parle pas si bien la langue.... mais quand tu ne comprends pas: je pense miss va traduire le texte en néerlandais.

hey miss in dutch: mijn interpretatie van dat artikel is dat bij A. junodi het ooggedeelte sterker gedefinieerd is, en de voorste poten veel hariger. op de foto's zie je toch duidelijke verschillen, maar het probleem is dat het moeilijk blijft om van foto te zeggen, maar het grootste verschil zit hem bij de volwassen mannen. (in geval van twijfel zou ik ook Richard Gallon een mailtje sturen, net zoals J-M Belley adviseerde )

http://www.the-t-store.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=13560&hl=augacephalus in this topic (english) you can see pictures of both A. junodi and A. sp 'mozambique'

are you sure that it is A. junodi and not A. sp 'mozambique'?

this is one of the few species that have their urticating hairs 'between' their fangs and not on their abdomen. i think that is the 'flash' that you have seen

B. annitha femelle adulte

i think you have switched the pictures of your B.schroederi and B. epicureanum

no offence but why didn't you react this way when a new member asked to buy some of your P. murinus slings? /ventes-echanges-entre-particuliers-f113/jeunes-juveniles-murinus-orange-a-bas-prix-t1649.htm and this member is now looking for a P. metallica: without introducing himself (of herself) so is it only obligated for selling and not for buying? vous n'etez pas un marché ici

if all goes well, i'll try breeding this in a few months

i'm not sure when they entered the hobby, but the first time i saw them for sale was +/- 2 years ago. it's possible it's a natural hybrid, i'm not sure... and it's also possible that some people hybridized them already with some other Pampho's. maybe it is the same species as the one from Equador, but i'm not a taxonomist or a scientist or.... so i keep the different localities apart, just to be sure. maybe someone who knows this stuff much better can shime in?

i have some of these P. sp 'machalla' myself, and if i'm not mistaken they are given that name just to prevent hybridizing.... nowadays, when they import new spiders and they are not sure which one they are, they just give them their locality name. that's why you have a sp 'machalla', sp 'sud-equador', sp '......', they do it not only with Pamphobeteus, but also with Cyclosternum, Avicularia, .... in the early days people put male and female together when they looked the same, even if they weren't sure they were the same species. that's why there are so many Avicularia hybrids for example. and to prevent this as much as possible: new import is often labelled as sp '.....'

if i'm not mistaken, the L. violaceopes you have is Haplopelma robustum, and the spider we know as Cyriopagopus sp 'blue' is now called by some people Lampropelma violaceopes....

adult female (freshly molted)

next year would be a bit soon, maybe in a year or 2? it depends on how fast the females grow. but i'm feeding them a lot more than the male, so chances or good that they will be adult before the male, so hopefully breeding goes well then...

juvenile female