Show Loot!

[Sonny Howdle]

thankyou for a great show ray.
i got
2 t. pruriens
p.equador
a.peru purple
m.velvetosoma
4 a. genics
6 versi off howard
p.miranda off simon g
o.areorobilalis
male formosa for my female
h.albostritum
t shirt
dragon off kissymet
orange fringe off my aunti mary walters
my picture taken with martin nichlas and i got to talk to him, he is great.
and i won 1st place for best childrens art work with my pokie met.
i had a really good day and loved to be with my aunti mary.
elvis didnt win best new world terrestrial cos aunti mary beat me with her parahybana button.
Sonny.
(oh yer, i also got.........into loads of trouble with my mum and dad)

[Richard Gallon]

Did you get the "real" Schioedti or was it a Thorelli? Am I getting mixed up? Still don't really understand the whole Thorelli/Schioedti thing...

OK - let's see if we can help here:

The spider we are talking about here (i.e. the arboreal job from Malaysia with a tiger-striped abdomen) is called Cyriopagopus schioedtei.

When this species first entered the hobby it was 'incorrectly' ID'ed as Cyriopagopus thorelli. However, Volker von Wirth has confirmed that these specimens in captivity (which were originally sold as thorelli) are in fact Cyriopagopus schioedtei.

So to answer your question: it was a Cyriopagopus schioedtei he got.

Hope that helps,
Richard

[Johanna Turner]

I was expecting the same when I rehoused my AF P. regalis, but she wet in nce and quietly!!! Athough she did flinch once when I was taking the lid off the tub she came in, and I nearly had an accident then lol

I forgot, I also got 3 C fimbriatus slings free with my Pokie.

Mike! What are you like!?!? Nutter, make me laugh though! I thought it was brilliant that you handed over some pokies to me basically because you didn't get on very well with them, next time I bump into you you're carrying round that Regalis!! Glad you had a better experience with it though, just transfered mine now over the bath and all were like little quiet things! Bless 'em!

Oh, and thanks for my C, fimbratus too!

Mike, a big strapping lad like you needing extra strong undies ?

These larger pokies must be tough !!!!

And Colin, you better believe it! Lmao! They're called pokies coz you have to handle them with a big Pokie stick! lol!

[Robert Farmer]

OK - let's see if we can help here:

The spider we are talking about here (i.e. the arboreal job from Malaysia with a tiger-striped abdomen) is called Cyriopagopus schioedtei.

When this species first entered the hobby it was 'incorrectly' ID'ed as Cyriopagopus thorelli. However, Volker von Wirth has confirmed that these specimens in captivity (which were originally sold as thorelli) are in fact Cyriopagopus schioedtei.

So to answer your question: it was a Cyriopagopus schioedtei he got.

Hope that helps,
Richard

Right!

That clears things up, next question; is C Thorelli availablie in the hobby?

Sorry for taking the thread in a different direction, but what are the main differences between the Schioedti and Thorelli? I'm quite captivated with the Cyriopagopus sp after recently acquiring a C Schioedti 3" sling!

[mary walters]

Well, I didn't get much this year,
1 x M balfouri, thanks Lance
3 x C fimbratus, thanks Phil Rea
3 x C fimbratus, thanks Andy
1 x C schodeti
3 x Cyriocosmus sp 'Bolivia', a/f's
1 x Unidentified Creeping Creature, T but dunno what, thanks Sonny.
1 lovely pic of a P met from Sonny, love ya babe xxxxxxxx

All in all a good day, met lots of new and old pals, Carl it was great to see you , soon have more spids eh mate??? You can take the man out of the hobby, but not the hobby out of the man, we proved that.

Thanks to the comittee for a smashing show once more, Ray I will contact you re more tables next year please.

[Warren Beattie]

I went with a shopping list in my head and I managed to get most on it.

1x Avicularia laeta
2x Avicularia minatrix
1x Chromatopelma cyanopubescens
1x Grammostola actaeon
2x Liocheles australasiae
2x Damon sp.
Mantids
Phasmids
Fruit beetles

Very few potential mates for my AF spiders, and no Euscorpius or solifugids (do the latter occasionally turn up at the BTS shows?), but I consoled myself with a Smeringurus mesaensis - how could I not? - and a Ceratogyrus marshalli.

I kept an eye out for name stickers, to see if I could put a face with some names. If I read them right, Ray Gabriel doesn't look half as frightening as I expected...

[mary walters]

OOOOhh Ray Gabriel Frightening???????? Nah he's a smashing bloke is Ray.

[Colin D Wilson]

he's a smashing bloke is Ray.

Seconded !!!!