14 July 2009

Seperated Hottentotta Hottentotta Babies with a surprise

3days after the H.Hottentotta babies molted to 2nd instar finally they started to leave the mother
I separated them and found one dead on the mother's back
Total of 19babies+3dead, not bad, more than i have expected

Aside from that, i was surprised to find one of my suppose to be sub adult Liocheles Australasiae gave birth to 9babies! O_O
She is so small compare to an adult specimen that give me a brood last time
Just one day after that i found one molted to 2nd isntar with the rest follow up in the next 2days
Only 6survived as i only counted 6 of them in 2nd instar and they are now ready to be separate

Pictures
Hottentotta babies in their individual container
Close Up


Pictures of the 2nd days after their molt

Accident do happen when transfering them
The last clingy baby
New miniature mother
Size compare with a adult L.Australasiae
2nd day
New addiction, Isometrus Maculatus 2nd instar, thanks to Lester

Madoka, getting ready to rest in freezer

10 July 2009

Hottentotta Hottentotta babies

After having my adult Hottentotta Hottentotta for 17days, finally she popped and gave birth to a bunch of tiny puny
Not as much as i expected but still enough to satisfy me haha
According to the seller the last time she popped is about 6-9months ago and her last brood already reach 5th instar
I tried trigger the birth by misting the enclosure and it really work, in just 2days doing it she popped
Amazingly they only took 4days to molt to 2nd instar, i still have to wait till they get down from the mom before calculating them but i have roughly around 10-15 babies
Most of them will be keep by myself or trade to others experienced hobbyist cause i want to ensure they have higher survival rate so we can have more babies in the future and we will not need to import them in anymore in the future
Hope everything will turn out as expected

Pictures
Day1

Day2
Day3
Day4

Found one of them died on the substrate :(

Androctonus Australis died

After 14days of struggling to keep up living, finally Madoka who stucked in her last molt decided to give up living
She passed away peacefully on this rainy morning...
She have been doing well for this few days until last 2days when i noticed she got weaker
I didn't expect she will passed away so fast....
May she rest in peace...

08 July 2009

Good days or bad days?

Yesterday when i woke up i checked on my Liocheles Australasiae (2instar) communal tank and found this
One of the freshly molted was being mass cannibalism by its tankmate
I heard that L.Australasiae are more communal when they are still sling, looks like i was wrong
Feel damm sad because i don't have much babies left with me...
Gotta separate them.....

After this bad incident, i got a huuuuuugeeee surprise!
I uncover my Hottentotta Hottentotta hide and found her with babies on her back!
This really made my days, although the brood are not as much as i expected but i'm glad she doesn't abort her eggs like many others keeper experienced
I counted roughly 15-20babies with some inferterlized eggs where the mom are eating them

I woke up in the morning today and found another bad incident happened, my OBT died!
Killed by a oversized mealworm that i throw inside its container yesterday
I thought that it can overpower and eat it but somehow i was wrong and the predator became the prey
I throw the fucking mealworm in front of my Leiurus Quinquestriatus and watch it being eaten and suffer in agony
Serve it right, should have crush his fucking brain before feeding it
Like yesterday, bad incident usually follow up by a good event, my Grammostola Rosea molted
She is so much bigger now, one of the legs that have been missing due to bad molt regenerated and it looks so funny having a miniature legs :p
I sexed it and turn out to be female, just as i expected, hope she can matured soon

Pictures as usual
Mother hood
Poor OBT :(
Culprit!
Die die u fucking worm!
Molted Rosea
Who say female raise up hand~

06 July 2009

Pets World Day Arachnid Exhibition

There is a small tarantula booth in the Pets World Day on 3-5 of July and i was there to help out too
During the whole 3days i learned alot and see different people, curious, funny, wise, arrogant, ignorant etc
Thanks Andrew and Dennis for correcting my mistake and taught me new stuff bout tarantulas so i didn't give the wrong information to the public
It was a tiring days but its all worth for it, expecting the next exhibition
I met with alot of forumer that i never meet before as well as knowing some new great friend

Also there is a guy that pissed me off so much
He bought a scorpion (H.Spinifer) from my friend's booth and request for it sting to be clipped
Saying that his friend will handle it in very rough method and will be safer if it cannot sting
No matter how i convince him that it should not be handle and his friend is not suitable for scorpion but he just won't listen and have it clipped at last
Seriously his friend should just get a hamster instead of a scorpion
I hope his girl will ask for cutting off his balls to prevent her from underage pregnant, just like what he did for the scorpion

Some pictures to share, credit to Dennis, Rideon and Andrew
Some handling picture after the event





If everything goes well we will have another exhibition on 24 and 25July =p

Picture unrelated
My friend's new sg blue sling, thanks Rafiqos for the great discount