Back, again...

Once again, I am back and I find myself apologising for not posting in several months.

Truth be told though, there really hasn’t been much to report. Moults are really slowing down now, I’m lucky if I get five in a month! Before it seemed like five a week. Plus I haven’t been too healthy recently as I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease about a month ago, which isn’t very pleasant, and because the doctors took so long in diagnosing me, disease got worse than it should have been allowed and I now have a lot of secondary problems from it. A tleast I get some time off work though!

There have been a few new additions, I just cannot stop (what can I say, the BTS Show corrupts me)!

I have added a total of five new spiderlings and three new juvies / sub-adults / adults since the last update.

Spiderlings:
Ephebopus murinus
Ephebopus cyanognathus
Hysterocrates murinus (x2)
Pterinochilus lugardi

Others:
Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens
Brachypelma albopilosum (My Dad couldn’t wait for my sling to grow up!)
Thrixopelma ockerti

We’ve also had brief forays into the world of tarantula breeding! My Dad’s Grammostola pulchripes matured several months ago and we found him a girlfriend who luckily lived five minutes away from us. She will hopefully be dropping an egg sac in the coming weeks, so there should be the pitter patter of tiny feet pretty soon.

Everything is miraculously still alive, and it has now been a good 18 months since I started this little project.

All quiet on this front

Hello everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year!

Its been very quiet here. Nothing has really happened on the sling front since my last update. Everything is eating, nothing has molted (G.pulchra and E.vulpinus are now approaching five months without a molt!).

Unfortunately my Dad's A.geniculata died a few days before Christmas which took us by complete surprise. It was gearing up to molt but we found it dead one morning. Whatever process control molting internally must have gone wrong, as she was not in a death curl or anything. He is now on the look out for another T.

I am a little concerned with my B.emilia at the moment however. She seems very reluctant to move. Normally when I drop a cricket in she runs a mile before capturing her food, however the last two feeds she has done nothing, remained completely lifeless, and remains in the same spot all the time. The food is going, but it just seems quite strange. Her molt records would suggest she isn't due for another few months.

Kurt out.