P, everetti and juvenile

[Mark Pennell]

Managed to get this photo the other day and have been meaning to post it for some while now.

When I bred these last year I separated them off into pots and went through all the tanks substrate to make sure I had all of them rounded up.

A few days later I found one on the cork, sat on top the females carapace. Now I have been lucky enough to observe this species and few close relatives in the wild a few times and have observed them living in extreme proximity to each other, so as an experiment decided to leave the youngster in with the female.

Now, nearly a year later it still lives with the female, by the way I am not recommending that anyone to try this...

Enjoy the picture, sorry its not to clear I must get round to cleaning silk off the glass.

Regards
Mark

[Phil Rea]

Fantastic Mark

Amazing that they'll live in such close proximity. Have you seen any competition or co-operation where food is concerned, or do they just ignore each other?

[Mark Pennell]

Fantastic Mark

Amazing that they'll live in such close proximity. Have you seen any competition or co-operation where food is concerned, or do they just ignore each other?

Phil
At the moment the female lives under her log at one end and the juvenile the other in a silk tube it has made. They are both feed at the same time, larger crickets and smaller ones, both take either now. There seems to be no hostility between them and I often see them in close physical contact.

If you look close in the picture they are actually touching. In the wild in Sabah we found a tree full of juv's and spiderlings with one dominate breeding female it it.

I have seem the same thing on the mainland and Sarawak with P, everetti, very much like what is reported with Avics'

Needs closer study and should I bred more this year will keep a few in a large tank to see what happens.

Cheers
Mark

[Matthew Baines]

Wow that is absolutely fantastic. I still want one of these too.
Are the adults a bit more intolerable of each other ?
Could this mean that they might have a slight maternal instinct and is she at all protective of the young?

Beautiful Spiders though . Better than any P. Mettalica in my eyes.

[Mark Pennell]

Wow that is absolutely fantastic. I still want one of these too.
Are the adults a bit more intolerable of each other ?
Could this mean that they might have a slight maternal instinct and is she at all protective of the young?

Beautiful Spiders though . Better than any P. Mettalica in my eyes.

Mat
Not sure on the adults yet, I will leave it in there till at least a few more molts, the males has gone in with the female today, he is a bit of a old gent and has done the rounds with a few. I hope he has a strength to mate.

I lost a fresh male over Feb while I was away, so this will be this years last chance to mate her.

Cheers
Mark

[Phil Rea]

Well good luck with them Mark

[Lisa Baines]

fantastic picture mark And a very interesting experiment.

Do you think that the visual stimulation of plenty of hiding places and adequate tank space contributes to their communal activity and tollerence?

[mary walters]

Good luck Mark

[Matthew Baines]

Good Luck indeed . Got everything crossed for you!