From what I remember, T.quad. gracilior is largely differentiated through lung morphology due to living at higher elevations, which is obviously hard to detect on a live animal. I'd think the best answer for figuring out whether an animal is a true gracilior or not is knowing the location it...
Congrats! I'm glad the male was able to help a bit and hope you end up with some fertile eggs! The male always showed initial interest, but my old female's disinterest seemed to keep him from advancing.
I got tired of freezing for every feeding and use those containers with the small foam insert in the middle of the top. I hold the container near the top screen and tilt the foam stopper back, and the container downward a bit to direct them, and just let a few flies come out. 99% of the time...
I need to make some room for other animals, and am looking to sell my pair of K. tenuis and lone male K. uthmoelleri.
I will sell the tenuis for 200 plus shipping because I got them very cheap. I have had them since the summer of 2009, and both are doing extremely well. The male is very...
I'm talking about the spiders within the genus Agelenopsis, the species is most like naevia. Everything I've seen (including the site you posted) describes their bites as being pretty harmless to humans. Haven't seen any today since it's raining, but might try feeding off the next one.
Does anyone feed these off to their animals? One of my animals is going through a picky stage but loves spiders, and I've caught a few of these over the last few days. I guess the only reason I'm a bit hesitant is due to their size when compared to the other spider species I generally feed...