CombiChrist
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My apologies for the horrible pictures. I spend more money on animals then on cameras...
But some pictures of my male Theraphosa stirmi. For those who get curious about the name, they were known as Theraphosa sp. "Burgundy" untill last week they finally we're recognised and described as a third species in the genus. Most specimen sold as T.blondi, are actually this species, T. stirmi.
The spiders in this genus are the biggest bird eating spiders, with body sizes of over 10cm. The legspan can get up to 30cm.
The one on the pics is my male in a terrarium of 40x40x40cm and stretching out you can see he's around 25cm legspan.
This afternoon I captured him to move him into a 50cm terrarium and at those moments I'm still an arachnofobiac
I have an adult female also in a 80cm terrarium but no pics of her though for two reasons. First she hardly gets out of her hiding, and secondly I disturb her as little as possible. The easier she is, the more chance of succes a breeding attempt will become.
The collection will be expanded with breeding couples of the two other Theraphosa species : blondi and apophysis
But some pictures of my male Theraphosa stirmi. For those who get curious about the name, they were known as Theraphosa sp. "Burgundy" untill last week they finally we're recognised and described as a third species in the genus. Most specimen sold as T.blondi, are actually this species, T. stirmi.
The spiders in this genus are the biggest bird eating spiders, with body sizes of over 10cm. The legspan can get up to 30cm.
The one on the pics is my male in a terrarium of 40x40x40cm and stretching out you can see he's around 25cm legspan.
This afternoon I captured him to move him into a 50cm terrarium and at those moments I'm still an arachnofobiac
I have an adult female also in a 80cm terrarium but no pics of her though for two reasons. First she hardly gets out of her hiding, and secondly I disturb her as little as possible. The easier she is, the more chance of succes a breeding attempt will become.
The collection will be expanded with breeding couples of the two other Theraphosa species : blondi and apophysis
