Wednesday 11 August 2010

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.

1 comment:

  1. Great blog - one day I hope I'll have the kind of collection you have... I've recently acquired a Grammostola rosea and have started my blog about it:

    http://grosea.weebly.com/

    I'm giving detailed descriptions and photographs of every stage of its care. Hope it will be helpful to new owners - I'm trying to be as informative as possible, but constructive comments are very welcome!

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