A freaky but sad sad day yesterday

Well, I was doing my routine tarantula feeding rounds, and I noticed that Kracky had molted. Yeah! Kracky molted, but where was she? I could find her in her cage. I looked and looked and couldn't see her. I called Jason and told him he needed to get home so he could dig through the cage. (Kracky is a little too defensive for me to dig around in there; she would end up on my face or something) I just knew somehow she escaped. Although it was dang near impossible.

Jason made his way home 45 minutes later and inspected her cage. She was dead in the bottom of a burrow. Dead, in the death curl. How much does that suck? It looked like her molt didn't go correctly, she had not hardened correctly. It was sad. She was the only one with an attitude that I really enjoyed. Most of the time she was a sweetheart, but you never knew what you were going to get. She only hissed that one time, but on other occasions she would display a great display. It would scare me away if I was a predator. Much like that asshat of a fireleg I have.

RIP Ms. Kracky. You will be missed

A few more pictures

I had actually forgotten I had taken these pictures! Bad T mommy I am. They were taken several months ago, some as far back as October 2005!!!!


This is Kracky, a Ceratogyrus marshalli. She is a beauty! We don't see much of her anymore since she made her home here. She has burrows and webs. The last time I saw her she was displaying and hissing because Jason put a roach in there. She had never done that before in all the time we had her. I was yelling at Jason to get the roach out because he was upsetting my baby!!!

This is PMS. Acanthoscurria geniculata or Giant White Knee. Sadly we don't have her anymore. This was Jason's baby and he sold her. I miss her alot, she was fun. This is one of my favorite pictures.


This is one of the baby A. geniculatas that we had. We have two left, Billy and Horntick. I will have to get some updated pictures of them. Horntick who is female is huge now. Billy is a boy and is about 1/2 her size. I can't believe they were that tiny when they came home.



This is Putch. Avicularia metallica or Whitetoe. I can't believe how tiny she was!!! I have to get some updated pictures and put them side by side.


I guess I have to post to the rest later, it won't let me do it now for some reason.

Meet Ms. Cardinal

I was feeding today and thought I would post pics of this little gal. She is really coloring up nicely and I think she is just a beauty. She is a Avicularia bicegoi.

She has a nice red butt and cute pink toes. LOL



I think it's time to give her bigger crickets...she does have one in her fangs under there somewhere.