For those who helped me out or were following me the last few weeks, my 23 year old Grammostola Rosea, Harriet, had a bad molt that has now resulted in her passing yesterday.

She was a great spider and a companion of mine since I had just turned 7. She lived an amazing and long life, and I hope she finds nothing but plump crickets and a warm sun to bask in in the after life.

Here are a few pictures of her in her prime - and have a drink for the old gal (if you can) this evening.

One of my many beautiful ladies, she is my oldest by far and easily one of the sweetest. Look closely to see her red fangs!🌺♥️

He was an adult when we got him about two years ago now, and he had matured a couple months ago. Sadly, my mother found him curled up when she went to give him water.

I call Vinny a sweet boy, when in reality he was not. He was a feisty, aloof and very grumpy little man, but I loved him so.

Last pictures is from a couple months ago, but it's the most recent I have. First picture is the day I got him.

Crawled onto my hand while refilling their water lol

Look at him go!

My T. albopilosus, Tribble, had unexpected babies. I'm still new to tarantula keeping and didn't know my store bought tarantula could have an egg sack 77 days after I got her. Another 5 months later I have more Curlies! Way less than I thought, because a lot of the nyphms suddenly died off, I am not sure why, I followed every bit of advice I could find. But I still have 9!

Rip cricket

hey yall. i went to a reptile shop near me to find some dubia roaches and ended up walking out with a new friend.

Meet Osseus.

This rehousing was almost just as easy as the first one. first it went straight for defense but then immediately gave up and refused to move at all when i brushed its legs. it finally moved when i changed the position of the tub cause some dirt fell on its legs and then it kind of just flopped in. I felt bad, but it seems fine. never kicked hairs once so that was cool.

2 successful rehouses down! hopefully many more to come over the years

Hi everyone! I wanted to share Kariguu, the Master Weaver with this sub! She’s a major character in the anthropomorphic fantasy novel I’m working on. The scene here is when she makes her introduction. The artwork is by u/nickthagreek, the talented fountain ink illustrator of the project.

Kariguu is based on the actual 20 year old salmon pink birdeater living in my home office that I’ve kept since she was a wee spiderling. Her near infinitely patient real life behavior was the basis for the strange, ancient, almost eldritch-like being that is Kariguu.

I’ve been fascinated by spiders and tarantulas since I was young. I feel that they’re usually depicted as simple monsters in most fiction. While Kariguu is certainly quite imposing, she’s not a simple monster. Beyond the fantastical elements of the story, spiders exhibit otherworldly patience and insane precision and craftsmanship. I wanted to capture that in a character.

Anyways, hope folks enjoy it! Happy to answer any questions at all about my salmon pink or the story or anything else. Thanks!!

I need to ship all of my spiders by car over 3 days. 12 of thier enclosures look like this or are similar enough that I dont have to rehouse them.

The other 6 are who im worried about. I have the following:

Mascara bird eater sub adult

2x Brazilian black, adolescent

Brazilian Black and White male sun adult

Mexican red Rump adult female

Reagle jumping spider

My plan was to put the birdeater, black and white, and red rump in containers like these filled mostly witb substrate and put the smaller ones in one pound deli cups with substrate.

If I do this they can all fit in a large box. I could then take them into the hotels and leave them out on a desk so they can recover.

Would this work for 3-4 days?

So yesterday my C. Versicolor escaped from their enclosure due to it being a shitty one from Amazon (don’t worry this is being taken care of) and I was almost certain I wouldn’t find them bc they are a 0.5” sling but lo’ and behold when I came back from work today they were crawling along my bed frame. They are now safely back in an enclosure but WOOF that was a stressful 24 hours 😂

it's been more than a week since my g. pulchripes blocked the tunnel and made their own home deep underground. they don't even do anything there just walking and sitting around and they don't drink the water i put outside the tunnel, so i'm getting worried + i can't feed them this way... is it safe to excavate? or should i let them be? how long is this behavior gonna last?

my new tarantula exploring his enclosure.. (he got really close to the lid and its not very securw im a bit worried and he also fell so hopefully he’s alright) Hes a brazilian pink bloom I thought they weren’t really arboreal😭

my sweet Bram is finally ready to eat after his molt ~15 days ago! his fangs took a while to harden this time but now he’s finally good to eat. gave him an extra big mealworm as a special treat today, hopefully will encourage some more growth soon :)

She has been rehoused since this video, so don't worry.

My pink toe recently molted for the first time with me. Everything’s been mostly fine, I’ve left her alone, made sure she had access to water. She’s just in a strange position that I’m not sure if I should be concerned could potentially be a death curl. She originally stayed deeper in the cup (which isn’t her entire enclosure, by the way. Mainly used as a hide because she had it so heavily webbed I didn’t want to take it away. She frequently leaves the cup to explore) and then came to the outside where she’s been curled up like this for a bit now.