Spiderday! (new babies!) :D

[Gayle E. Anderson]

Friday was SPIDERDAY!
Had 5 slings arrive in the post, 3 Thrixopelma Pruriens and 2 Brachypelma Emilia.
Sadly, one of the Pruriens had died en route, poor little mite
But the rest are fine!

Brachypelma Emilia, this is the teeny tiniest little T I had ever seen!
(The mesh is about 1mm squares)








Thrixopelma Pruriens, and I thought the Emilia were teeny tiny!
(same 1mm squared mesh!)

[Lisa Baines]

awwww cuteness

[Gayle E. Anderson]

Cuteness just got even cuter!
Fruit flies arrived today (annoying things!) so I decided to feed them...

Here is a teeny weeny Emilia with a mouthful of fruit fly



AND!!! One of my Pruriens has moulted already!!

The moult (scale rule showing 1cm)


Newly moulted baby

[Lisa Baines]

We have some slings as small as that at the moment.
They look so fragile and delicate and aww so cute n defenceless.... then you throw food in! Instant predator! NOM!

[James Box]

nice one!
you'll be pleased to know the pruriens don't stay tiny for all THAT long
as for emilia...you may be needing fruit flies for a while

[Stuart Lee]

My B. Smithi was the same size when I got Him/her. Its been 7 months now but s/he is looking great with all the colours showing thru.
S/he shed every month for the 1st 4 months now its seems to be slowing down to every 2 months.

[Gayle E. Anderson]

Checked on them again today to find that the 2nd Pruriens has also moulted

Emilia 1 grabbed its fruit fly immediately again, but emilia 2 ran away from it again, it never ate the fruit flies I gave it last week either It has however been doing a power of terra-forming.

Freshly moulted Pruriens 2, you can see the moult to the left
(Sorry for the quality, had to take it through the tub which is isn't very clear).