Tarantulas....

[Scott C.]

Hello everyone. Since I don't have any viv. pics to show yet I figured I would contribute something to this forum. Hope you enjoy them....
Pterinochilus murinus:




Heteroscodra maculata:

Phormictopus cancerides:

Avicularia versicolor:

Haplopelma lividum:

Brachypelma boehmei:

Cheers,
Scott

[Scott C.]

Citharischius crawshayi:


Davus fasciatus:

Iridopelma hirsuta:

Grammostola pulchra:



Haplopelma schmidti:

Avicularia avicularia:

Ephobopus cyanognathus:

Megaphobema robustum:

Take care everyone.
Scott

[Tindomul1of9]

WOW!! I can't believe there are so many colors for Tarantulas!!!

[ChromeLibrarian]

I got this pic last week at the Heritage Park Zoo.



It's a bird-eating tarantula.

[Scott C.]

Nice pic. Most likely Theraphosa blondi(although there is no way to tell for sure from the pic). I've got a rarer sp. from that genus (T. apophysis) that's huge already, and still probably only half grown. I'll get a pic when she lets me.
T's come in many more colors than just the posted pics show. I'll put some more up when I get the chance.
I'm moving, and re-doing my entire set up. I want to give planted cages another try using some new techniques I've gathered. I'll get pics of it when I'm done.
Cheers,
Scott

[Landon]

i cant believe they are that colorful eihter. they must be pretty photogenic also, those are some great pics!!

[Scott C.]

The T's aren't what I would call photogenic. For every good pic I've got there are 100 bad ones. They don't exactly cooperate. Some of them refuse to have their picture taken(quite a few species actually). There are a bunch I don't even have bad pictures of. When I do get them to chill though they are definitely photo worthy.
Cheers,
Scott
As for the color thing: The sun, bright light, or camera flash really brings it out. To the naked eye at normal indoor light levels some of them are not quite as vibrant.

[Marty]

Scott, beautiful spiders. Are all those your spiderlings? Regarding <i>Theraphosa blondi</i> I was fortunate enough to see it in the wild on a collecting trip in French Guyana. It was great and it's a bit freaky, looking at a spider that large in the middle of the night in the rainforest. I'm sure there were 10 other T's looking at me too.

Beautiful pictures !

[ChromeLibrarian]

Heritage Park has a pretty nice tarantula collection, and that is a T. Blondi.

[Scott C.]

Hey Marty,
Yeah they're my T's. Some of the pics are old though. Some males have been sent off for breeding, and a couple of the older ones have perished over the years. There was a heat wave a few months back where we had temps of 110-118F, and my air conditioning went out for a week. I lost most of the slings from some recent breeding success, and even a good number of my permanent pets. That really sucked. Here are some pics of my T closet before the tradgedy.





and another spider pic, one of the victims :
Unidentified. Possible Chilobrachys sp.

I would love to see a blondi in the wild. That must of been one hell of an experience. I've read that T. blondi has been found in the wild cohabing with frogs. Live-in phorrid fly control maybe.....Don't know why the T wouldn't just eat the frog though . Some day maybe I'll get to see it for myself....
Thanks for the kind words,
Cheers,
Scott