A.Aberrans

[Carole Dallison]

Hi guys.
can I pick someones brains. I`ve just bought 4 new T`s off of someone who is selling their collection. One of the T`s being an A.Aberrans. Now I`ve searched the internet and cant find any info or even a picture of one of these spiders. Can anyone give me any info on this species?

Many thanks
Caz

[Mandy Clinch]

On searching aphonopelma aberrans on the net i found a lot of pictures and a then a thread, and consequently, apparently the member Phobia did a care sheet for them, but the link posted failed. If you are a member there, maybe drop Phobia PM and ask? Hope this helps, they sound like nice T's

http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/forums/spiders-inverts/263071-aphonopelma-aberrans-casa-blanca-chesnut.html

Found this on arachnoboards too....

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=145934

[Joanna Pendleton]

This is the only reference I have found to this T:

Aphonopelma aberrans (CHAMBERLIN, 1917)
– Chile

CHAMBERLIN, R.V. 1917.
New spiders of the family Aviculariidae.
Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 61: 25-75 [p. 51, pl. 4, f. 2].

Googling further:

the full title for work cited: Chamberlin, Ralph V. "New Spiders of the Family Aviculariidae." Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 1917. Vol. LXI, No. 3.

no idea how to get hold of it though.

No other info I could find out there sorry x

[Joanna Pendleton]

wow, well done mandy, it didnt bring up anyting that good when i searched pmsl! x

[Joanna Pendleton]

From the rich agricultural area of Aconcagua, near Cas Blanca, Chile. A. aberrans was one of the first spiders with traits unique to Aphonopelma found there.

Ok, this is the sum total of eveything else out there, maybe with the area and with knowledge of other Aphonopelma's you could work out how to care for this species? x

[Christopher Smallman]

I bought a small sling from

http://www.predatororprey.net/

Not found a lot about them so thank you Mandy and Joanna for the above.

Did find after a moult 20/7/10 it refused to eat twice 24/7/10 and 26/7/10 then yesterday 29/7/10 I caught a green bottle fly which was eaten by this morning.

Chris.

[Carole Dallison]

Wow! Thanks guys. You did far better than me for info. Really appreciate it

Thanks.

[Colin D Wilson]

You can keep them like most other Aphonopelma, but have noticed they like it a little more humid than the majority of the genus, enough dry substrate to burrow in, a water bowl overflowed often to aid humidity at times of moult, suitably sized food items (although ours are quite the ravenous hunters and will tackle a larger item with ease).
The ones here strangely display semi arboreal tendencies and spend a bit of time hanging around on the side and roof of the tub, this had nothing to do with the substrate being too damp, a few have created little scrapes and/or burrows but still climb around often. as they're quite active they seem to require a larger tub to be able to wander around so i'd go for a cricket tub for a spiderling after a couple of moults.
Temps are around 80-82 daytime and a night time drop of a couple of degrees.

[Carole Dallison]

You can keep them like most other Aphonopelma, but have noticed they like it a little more humid than the majority of the genus, enough dry substrate to burrow in, a water bowl overflowed often to aid humidity at times of moult, suitably sized food items (although ours are quite the ravenous hunters and will tackle a larger item with ease).
The ones here strangely display semi arboreal tendencies and spend a bit of time hanging around on the side and roof of the tub, this had nothing to do with the substrate being too damp, a few have created little scrapes and/or burrows but still climb around often. as they're quite active they seem to require a larger tub to be able to wander around so i'd go for a cricket tub for a spiderling after a couple of moults.
Temps are around 80-82 daytime and a night time drop of a couple of degrees.

Thanks Colin. Thats brilliant info, really appreciate it.

[Christopher Smallman]

Thank you Colin

Thats why the little so and so is always attached to the lid of the container, I did think it was because the substrate was to damp. Lucky for the sling that it came into pre-moult so I had dampened the subby for that reason.

Chris.

[James Box]

of course, it must be said that they are in no way Aphonopelma...they were described as such, but they're almost definitely Euathlas. Aphonopelma don't occur as far south as Chile.

Lee of the spidershop confirmed as much a long time ago in a discussion on this species on this forum.

care ime is similar to Euathlas sp "green" or Euathlas sp "blue" which i personally reckon it's pretty similar to.

[andy hood]

My A/F

[Carole Dallison]

Gorgeous T, Andy.

[Chris Graham]

Ive just acquired a pair of these off Predator or Prey, hopefully once the male matures I will have a go at pairing them up. Up to now they seem a nice enough species.

[Ray Gabriel]

Its not Aphonopelma or Euathalus its............................................... .......

Ray