My NIKE GAL

[George Santana]

My largest P irminia F molted last night, and what a babe.

All female, no need for magnification, right about 5" (plus) post molt


House cleaning right away, she chucked molt within minutes of molt


Very sexy lady

Enjoy

[jason holland]

i love that orange! such a nice contrast

[Colin D Wilson]

Hi George,

Have moved this into the pix section hope you dont mind.

Anyway....that's one nice spider....some good shots too.

Colin

[James Box]

gorgeous spider, mate! i love irminia

[Oli Dodds]

Where did you get those housing units, they look very nice.
Plastic?

[George Santana]

Where did you get those housing units, they look very nice.
Plastic?

Thank you, I made my own enclosures with an acrylic sheet I bought cut and glued.

The shell with substrate retainer


The drilled lid


Finished arboreal enclosures

[jason holland]

wow. damn simple andthey look great"!

[Oli Dodds]

Damn George I hate you, you have great housing units AND custom made
Make me some or i'll hunt you down and kill you!
*Looks over at cereal tubs and cries*

[George Santana]

Damn George I hate you, you have great housing units AND custom made
Make me some or i'll hunt you down and kill you!
*Looks over at cereal tubs and cries*

LMAO

Its easy to do it yourself, If you don't have the tools i.e. tablesaw, have an acrylic supplier cut the sheets to size, and assemble yourself.

check out the vids here, good starting point.

http://www.tapplastics.com/

G-

[Oli Dodds]

How did you get the venting on the lids so perfect?
It looks professionally made. If you put that in a shop and tried to sell it to me for £20 id definatly have it lol.
Isnt acrylic expensive though?

[George Santana]

Regarding the lid, I made a template as carefully as I could, and I used a drill press to make each lid using the template to guide the drill bit.

I paid $157.00 for a sheet which gave me 11 enclosures and two small enclosures. The hinges, hasps, and glue were very inexpensive.

I intend on making another batch next month as I have a bunch of folks asking for one of their own.

Give it a try, you may make a few mistakes initially (I did), but you will get better quickly.

G-

[angie starr]

Ur P irminia sure is a babe and I luv ur acrylic Tanks. I did look in2 making some a while back but couldn't find the Clear Hasps, so the link u posted was most helpful (thx ) I think I'd prefer acrylic as I've found the glass tanks I bought 4 my arboreal T's seem 2 crack underneathdue after a while due 2 heat.

Gr8 job on the Tanks