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Lotabob
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 Posted - 22/12/2011 : 19:44:46
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Or Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird Eating Tarantula as she likes to be addressed. She is only a sling at the moment but will grow up to be about 10 inches in legspan.
I went through loads of different types of Tarantula but this little titchy thing won my heart. I look forward to watching her grow and grow and grow. |
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Posted - 22/12/2011 : 20:09:23
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Oooo going to be one big spide - is her name short for Samson?
Welcome home Sam and congrats Bob. |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22/12/2011 : 20:30:22
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| Its Sam for now until I decide whether she is a she (Sammy) or he is a he (Samson). Samson works well, not quite a Goliath lol. |
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Laws
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 22/12/2011 : 21:07:40
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| congrats on ur new addition! shes gona get biiiig! sorry to here about the obt tho mate! |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 00:15:07
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I am absolutely amazed this evening/morning, I went to check on her before bed and I found this
That is one little Tarantula laying flat on her back having a moult. I know they grow fast but thats taking the mick. |
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 00:41:25
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Lol clever girl!
I don't know if you read about the story of the guy who bought a tarantula and then phoned the shop to say it had died ...
Yes. There was its enclosure ...and a desiccated tarantula ...lying still ...
So the shop said, well, return the corpse, mate, and they did.
It was a skin.
Trouble was, they hadn't bothered to close the enclosure and so a newly shed tarantula was at large in the house!!
I never realised spides shed until about 20 years ago I went into the cellar and a THING charged at me ...a BIG house spider, dragging his shed behind him ...
Interesting!
Have a good shed, little Sam! |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 18:17:03
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Well she did just fine over night and I was greeted by this little squishy and a bit pale Tarantula, not sure where it came from though its about twice the size of the one I had yesterday.
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Kelfezond
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 18:18:46
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| That is one of the coolest things i've ever seen. And withouut a doubt the most terrifying! |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 18:28:09
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| Its incredible Kelf, at the moment she is very delicate and squishy it takes a few days for her to harden up, even her fangs are soft at the moment. I just cant comprehend how that spider there fit into the spider I had yesterday, a total mystery to me. |
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Lotabob
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 19:36:44
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| haha I'd love a cephalopod. I've been fascinated in them for donkeys years specially squid, they are some clever creatures. |
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Posted - 23/12/2011 : 20:01:53
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| They're incredible - seeing this makes me feel so guilty about only thinking of them in terms of calamares alla romana ...will stick to dried shrimp in the paella in future ... |
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Meet Sam the Salmon Pink Tarantula
