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Speedy wee fuzzballs with too many legs!

Roy Munson said:
They're very pretty, Elle. But I couldn't keep 'em. I'm a fraidy-cat when it comes to spiders...
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Oh go on Dean, get over that irrational fear! Scaredy pants...

ZoologyMajor said:
Poor quality photos my butt! Those are some great photos. *I need a macro lens too :(* Those are some beautiful babies. I am still trying to convince work to give me the T they have there (before they kill it with bad husbandry).
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On the bad husbandry note, alas I have horrible news concerning the smithi... poor Little Glitter Bumfluff has MITES! Ahhhh. Now these are perfectly clear on a macro lens and the poor wee dear is covered in them. I appreciate the seller may not have paid enough attention to notice however I am absolutly devistated. I have been assured that the mites will not do much harm and that a moult should take care of them.

Jessicat said:
Yay, cute fuzzy arboreals! I failed with mine, got an A. versicolor, but unfortuneitly he/she didn't make it out of its first moult with me. I think it was completely my fault, as I picked up the container, THEN realized he/she was flat on its back. I'm pretty sure the movement threw the moult off. I'll probably try again some day, but I guess I need to do a bit more research about taking care of slings first.
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Well the seller shoved in an extra baby for me :) I bought a few because I had heard of the trouble people have with baby avics. I hope I can do ok with these wee cute fuzzballs!

dionythicus said:
We have two T's, a red knee and a bloodleg. We tried with a pink toe once, but it had it's sexual maturity molt (male) and died shortly thereafter. We kept it, though, and plan to put it under glass. Our Brachypelmas are doing great. We like the desert species better. And I like getting them when they are already an inch or more in size. I hate crickets and pinheads get everywhere! No itty bitty speedy fuzzies here! LOL
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Brachys are my favorite genus though, I can't freakin wait until my boehemi is an adult.

lyndy299 said:
Spidies...I too am a scaredy-cat when it comes to them. I'm ok throwing in food now and again but I always managed to get someone else to do them in the shop. The girl im moving in with after summer is thinking about a T...I mean, I'm bringing snakies and such to the flat and I'm OK with looking at it...just don't ask me to touch. Hopefully this will be her first escapade into the exotic world....muahahahahaha...
Nice spiders though, I can appreciate their beauty...and those ones certainly have that! I especially like baldy bum...a bit of character goes a long way...lol.
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Good luck with the spidie venture!
 
Oh and I have also been told that the "smithi" looks more like B. auratum which would be fantastic! I like the fire knee's more anyways ;)
 
I'm a wicked fraidycat too....
But they ARE pretty (and scary...*shudder*)

But I'm glad you love them and they are awesome photog subjects.
 
YAYYYYY! I got 3 feeding straight away on cricket parts tonight. One chopped up cricket does the 6 of them. 3 "struck" fed off the tongs and are munching as I type, the other three were only interested in escaping. I alsmost caught ones wee toes when I shut the lid too quickly, luckily it moved equally as fast. All have webbed up and are making themselves quite at home. Heres a couple more pictures. I'm getting more and more diapointed with the quality of these shots... the exposure is all wrong. My body flash is doing my head in, purchasing a seperate flash is on my priority list from now!

I suppose I need to remember these wee spidies are tiny subjects... 2cm max.

Oh also, theres a lass in Glasgow desperate for an avic, so I offered her one since I got an extra in the box. In return, she is giving me a Nhandu chromatus (White stripe birdeater) CB sling... whoot!

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your photos are absoultly stunning. Me, I got a 3.2 digital with a delay flash so I get snake bodies and no heads, half heads, blurried goobs of what's that supposed to be, etc.
 
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