THEY ARE HERE! I AM A T MOMMY!

They have finally arrived!!! Baby A. versicolors! How cool is this. I am so excited. We have been working to get them all in their own homes all afternoon. I haven't got a full count but somewhere around 45, we knew it was a small sac. They are just adorable. So of course I had to take pictures!

This is right after Jason cut open the egg sac. Its very cool to see this for the first time.

Here they have started coming out of the sac on their own. At first it just looks like a little blue ball of spiders.


Just to show you how small they are, here is one little versi in my hands. I couldn't even feel her when she was walking around.

I have already picked out a few I am keeping! The first one is Bear Jr. in honor of her dad who passed. They are so darn cute, I just can't get over it! I know I'm crazy.


Here is Pops, my first A. versicolor, he lives in a large vial currently. It's hard to believe that he was this small when he hatched!

Mr. Bear was munched

The father of the two versi egg sacs we have was munched. It's a sad day for me to find out this out. I always liked Bear. He was tiny, and not as skittish as some. He was shipped out to Vegas to be bred again, my reasoning behind it was so he wouldn't be here when he died. I am so selfish. Jason tried to protect me and tell me he just died, but I read the message, he was munched. I seem to have a mental problem with the males being munched. To me it seems like a horrible way to die. It's the first male I have lost. And it stinks. So rest in peace my dear Bear. Your genes will live on. I plan on keeping a few of his babies. Sad sad day.

My baby has fangs

The wait is horrible!

I swear this is worse than waiting on your own children to be born! I keep checking and rechecking Ms. Rogains home for baby spiderlings. We found the egg sac on the 25th of Jan so we should be seeing something soon. We don't even know if this sac is fertile or not since we didn't breed her but the fellow that she came from said he did. I just can hardly stand it! This is our first sac so it's all new to us. Rogain (my 4 year old names all the T's so sorry about the strange names...LOL) is a good mommy so far. She rolls it around the web and has been hugging it non stop. She has eaten a few times which is good, but I really can't wait to feed her up where she looks good again. She most likely wonders who the heck keeps peering in with that darn flashlight...LOL.

Fuzzy is doing well with her sac too! Her's is alot larger than Rogains though. She has yet to eat even though we keep offering.

I am going to St. Louis to the show this Sunday and who knows what slings I will come home with! Mr. Botar will be there. I haven't seen him since last November so I have alot of slings to catch up on.....LOL.


Here is a picture of me last year holding a T for the second time in my life. It was a little scary! I wanted to know what it felt like incase they ran up my arm or something during maintenance. And the picture was proof to all my family that I did it.....LOL. It's a bad picture of me, but o well, we all can't be beautiful.

Spider Porn

I finally, by the grace of God, had a few free minutes to work on my spider pictures. So, here is Bob and her handsome male breeding. Don't they make such a cute couple.



I think I mentioned in my previous blog that Bob has began to web up her little home. I have been peeking in on her all the time, she most likely wishes I would leave her the hell alone....LOL. Hopefully someday soon we will have little Bob's running around.

Another exciting note, I finally was able to witness the molting of an adult tarantula! Our large female A. geniculata molted Thursday! It took her all day, literally. I discovered her flipped over about 7am, she finally was completely out of her old skin by 6pm. It was very cool and I was able to see those HUGE white fangs up close. WOW!

I think that is about all for now. I am trying to figure out which avic sling I want next. It's such a hard choice!

A pending egg sac

Last night we noticed that Bob, our female adult avicularia avicularia, is webbing the heck out of her cage. She was with her handsome male awhile ago so we are hoping that she has an egg sac soon! This is so fun!

I was checking on all my slings last night, and I can't believe how fast they grow. My very first sling is huge and bright blue, avic versicolor. She was so tiny when I got her.