Heterothele villosella team work!

[RichardDegville]

Now I must admit I have never really been big on baboons esp small ones but this sp is a real eye opener!!!

I got you now! "but your a bit big help!!!"




helps on the way!



got ya! "cheers mate! "



ah up you two kept that quite move over!

[Graeme Wright]

I have 10 of these little slings

[RichardDegville]

Ditto cool huh!!!

[preet_raithatha]

wooh! what are these little buggers?! ive never seen lil slings thrash about meals like this...where they come from, you know? im a big fan of old world...esp baboons!!

[RichardDegville]

Heterothele villosella (Amani chestnut long spinnert baboon) 'among many other commoin names' range East Africa Tanzania (Strand 1907)

And thats about all I know about them except they are small when adult and can be kept in a community I have never kept this sp before so I dont know the habits etc heres a link to a review by Guy Tansley of this sp

http://giantspiders.com/H_villosella_species.html

There are also photographs of adults in the Theraphosidae galley of this website

[Martin Huber]

Hi,

And thats about all I know about them except they are small when adult and can be kept in a community

BTW, last year, there has been published an article about this species in the BTS Journal:

• WEIGAND, A. (2003): Tarantulas Can be Gentleman too – How Tarantulas Court! British Tarantula Society Journal 19(1): 4-8.

all the best,
Martin

[RichardDegville]

Thanks for that Martin i will have to login the members section it maybe avalible for download this will save me digging though old journals lol

[Ray Gabriel]

Richard Gallon has bred them, try contacting him to see if he has any left, if anyone wants them.

Ray

[Graeme Wright]

Richard Gallon has bred them, try contacting him to see if he has any left, if anyone wants them.

Ray

allready did a couple of weeks back lol

[RichardDegville]

Ditto

They also love carrion it seems

[Richard Gallon]

Feeding dead T's to live

That could cause real problems What if the dead T died of some internal bacterial or fungal infection? Remember what happened in Mad Cow Disease?

[Graeme Wright]

Re: Feeding dead T's to live

That could cause real problems What if the dead T died of some internal bacterial or fungal infection? Remember what happened in Mad Cow Disease?

He does have a point.

[RichardDegville]

Re: Feeding dead T's to live

That could cause real problems What if the dead T died of some internal bacterial or fungal infection? Remember what happened in Mad Cow Disease?

Hi Richard very true mate however in this instance I know why the spiderling died my fault way to much water so all will be ok its a valid point though

[Damien]

Re: Feeding dead T's to live

That could cause real problems What if the dead T died of some internal bacterial or fungal infection? Remember what happened in Mad Cow Disease?

Hi Richard very true mate however in this instance I know why the spiderling died my fault way to much water so all will be ok its a valid point though

Are you saying that your spider drowned????

[RichardDegville]

yes lol