New Addition

[Kat Gilbert]

I really hope it turns out to be female (and an albopilosum! lol).

[lynn mawdesley]

This is my AF and even when in premoult she still has her bad hair day going on

[Craig Moore]

She's gorgeous!

[Kat Gilbert]

Oh my goodness Lynn, she is absolutely beautiful!

Ours is still moulting, bless her. She's started moving her fangs, legs and carapace now. Exciting!!

[Kat Gilbert]

Small update, he/she has moulted and is looking a lot more (from what I can see!) like Lynn's fine specimen. Would be the icing on the cake if she's female, whatever gender it is it's sitting on its old moult in its hide! Bah

[wayne balcombe]

keep us updated Kat and hope to see some pictures when you can take some.

[lynn mawdesley]

Thanks Craig & Kat

Yes as Wayne says please keep us updated ...i know how you feel when you are waiting for them to emerge with their new threads on hehe

[Craig Moore]

Still no sign of budging from the bunker...great- I have a curly hair that think's it's a Lividum

[Kat Gilbert]

Still no sign of budging from the bunker...great- I have a curly hair that think's it's a Lividum

. Curly hair is still firmly in the bunker i'm afraid, but he/she looks a lot more black than brown now!

[Kat Gilbert]

We have news! Pegs came out the bunker this evening so we were very brave and fished her moult out, which she'd started to break up. (I was scared for my life she was about to run up the tweezers and my arm facehugger style).

Looks like she's a she! To us at least. We're 95% sure she's actually a she, but just for confirmation if somebody could have a little look at our picture of her spermathicae for us we'd be really grateful. She has a little clear flap of skin on it which we're pretty sure makes her a lady.



Secondly she's a lot lot darker. But she still doesn't look very albopilosum-y. We were worried for a minute we'd been missold an L Parahybana but we've googled that and don't think so now. I don't know. Maybe she's just a strange looking curly hair!

And for good measure, a pic of Peg in her new threads, looking slightly more like she should:

[Craig Moore]

Hope the first pic is clear enough, there's a very distinct tiny flap of skin between the booklungs, almost looks like the tip of a fingernail. I nearly squealed like Prince when I saw it haha

[lynn mawdesley]

Hi Craig,

Take a look here http://tarantulas.tropica.ru/en/node/586 table 1 and compare the spermathacae of your T to the B albop one on there.

I cant see clear enough on your picture

[Kat Gilbert]

Thanks Lynn. .

Am 99% sure she is a female, she definitely has a very thin flap of skin as opposed to nothing there. I'll have to examine the moult of our definitely male B Emilia when I get home to compare. His first moult with us was his maturing moult so we didn't look at it. He popped out hooks and all!

[Craig Moore]

Cheers Lynn - funnily enough it does match the description from that page. Her abdomen is very, very small at the moment though. I'm aware that sub-adults can sometimes take weeks to start eating again after a moult but I'm worried that if the abdomen gets any smaller it could be harmful.
This is probably just noob nerves though. I'm going to try feeding her on Sunday, she doesn't seem sluggish or stressed.

[Craig Moore]

Hi everyone

Sorry to keep bumping this thread up but I've just seen a pic of another species which has got my brain cogs going...is there any chance that this could be a Phormictopus Cancerides? (Haitian Brown Bird Eater) I saw a pic of one today and it's got me thinking that I've been missold this as curly hair. There was another Albopilosum in that shop that was distinctly more curlier but we went with this one as it was sold as a female.

Thanks again