Grammastola sp. Concepcion

[Tom Forman]

Hello evryone,

my grammostolas arrived like scheduled this morning.

Like promised here are the first pictures. I will have more by this evening.

Only the male is out so far so I have taken pictures of him and am going to let the female come out by herself.

I can already tell though, it is the female that looks the best. The male looks quite similar to a chile rose I have to say.

He has been chilling in the position on the last pic for quite some time now. Very docile so far.

[Nicola Dolby]

Lovely spiders Tom, they look well worth having. I'm sure the female will be out and about as soon as the word 'cricket' is mentioned!

[Tom Forman]

Thx Nicola but you haven't seen the female yet.

Well like I said, the male is nice but nothing that special.

I am really glad I've got the female too. Red hairs on rump that turn blonde on the legs (not quite as white as I thought but still stunning)

She has also got a little tuft of blonde hair inbetween her eyes. Very strange place for a tuft of hair but ok lol.

One thing I am not too sure about is that she has a massive "dent" in her carapace, I take it that is related to the species?

I don't want to disturb them too much as they are getting a bit stressed out with me now.

I will have more when I feed them next.

Here is Jordan:

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Whom did You bought these from?

[Toran Tanner]

Whom did You bought these from?

my guess would be from Lee the spider shop not sure though

[Rich.Harrington]

my guess would be from Lee the spider shop not sure though

It's a safe bet it was Lee as he had a M+f on their for around £35 of this species. Nearly got them myself last week until the 12 P.murinus arrived.

[patsyking]

Lovely spids Tom

[Kate Arbon]

Nice spiders Tom. What is the dent you are referring to on the carapace? If it is like a little hole located in the middle towards the back then that's totally normal. I hope it is and your spid hasn't been damaged.

If it is the normal one, it's caused by this, a kind of stalactite of exoskeleton that points down inside the prosoma, which key muscles anchor to (I think, I am no spider anatomist) It's called the tergal apodeme in case you were wondering




Edit to add this pic of my G. pulchra, to show what the normal 'dent' bit should look like. So if it's the same as this there's nothing to worry about

[Tom Forman]

thx Kate,

that is pretty much what mine looks like but the dent is about twice as deep.

I'm not worried about it anymore tbh.

I still haven't been able to get any good pics, I really want to get it out, tell it to not scrunch up in a ball and let me take some pictures of it

I just found out why they are called Red Zebra (at least I think so)

Their spinnerettes are striped black and white. It was the best sight seeing the male make some webbing.

Here he is in action but fraid I couldn't get a close up.

[Tom Forman]

Finally a good shot of the female.

To be perfectly honest though I think it is going to be practically impossible for you to picture exactly what it looks like, cameras can be very deceiving and this shot, although my best looking shot has got the least resemblance to my T...
The right light conditions basically make some of the lighter hairs turn white like on the picture I first saw of them but they haven't got any white hairs....

Still what a stunning picture ey?

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Tom, any chance of the clear scopula shots?

[Tom Forman]

Mikhail, I really don't think so mate.

I'm not going to go pick up my T, turn it around to take some pics of its paws.


My camera hasn't got a macro lens yet either so I can't get much better close-ups.

This is the best I can do:


Is there any reason you are asking that question?

Because ever since I got them they have both not stopped climbing. I was going to nearly put the female in a more shallow container cause she kept climbing, beeing restless and fallling down but I decided to try a climbing ramp first and she loves it and has completely settled down on it and is not falling anymore...

Could this be more of a climbing species? I noticed arboreal spiders have got legs very similar to this ones legs...

[Kate Arbon]

A lot of Ts just climb a lot for a while when they are rehomed. After a week or two yours should settle down, once they're used to their tanks and start to consider them 'home'.

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Hello Tom.
The reason I'm asked You that I need to consider myself does it is sp. "Concepcion" or not as I like to prove anything with my own eyes.
I know Lee and I believe he should label his stuff as they are but look above.
Also, to realise what I'd like to find, see this: http://theraphosidae.fotopic.net/c907556.html

[matthew spooner]

One thing I am not too sure about is that she has a massive "dent" in her carapace, I take it that is related to the species?

the dent you are referring to sounds like it could just be the fovea, which may just be bigger than usual. the fovea is basically a pit that the leg muscles are attached to internally