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Acanthoscurria:
   Para mongo zebra (A. fracta) x0
   Giant whiteknee (A. geniculata) x6
Avicularia:
   Pinktoe (A. avicularia) x2
   "Goliath pinktoe" (A. "braunshauseni")
   "Big purple pinktoe" (A. "Bolivia #2")
   Ecuadorian wooly (A. huriana)
   Yellow banded pinktoe (A. jurenesis)
   Whitetoe (A. metallica) x4
   Venezuelan redstripe (A. minatrix)
   Ecuadorian purple (A. purpurea) x2
   Peruvian pinktoe (A. urticans)
   Antilles pinktoe (A. versicolor)
Brachypelma:
   Curlyhair (B. albopilosum)x0
   Michoacan orange (B. baumgarteni)
   Mexican fireleg (B. boehmei) x2
   Mexican redknee (B. smithi)
   Mexican redrump (B. vagans)
Ceratogyrus:
   Straighthorned (C. cornuatus)
Chilobrachys:
   "Blue chevron" (C. fimbratus)
Chromatopelma:
   Greenbottle blue (C. cyaneopubescens) x5
Citharischius:
   King Baboon (C. crawshayi)
Cyclosternum:
   Costa Rican tigerrump (C. fasciatum)
Cyriopagopus:
   Malaysian earthtiger (C. thorelli)
Ephebopus:
   "Blue fang" (E. cyanognathus)
Grammostola:
   "Brazilian redrump" (G. actaeon)
   "Brazilian tawnyred" (G. mollicoma) x0
   Brazilian Black (G. pulchra)
   Chilean rose (G. rosea) x0
   "Chaco golden stripe" (Grammostola sp.)
Haplopelma:
   Cobalt blue (H. lividum) x2
Heteroscodra:
   Togo starburst (H. maculata)
Hysterocrates:
   Camaroon red (H. gigas) x2
Megaphobema:
   Columbian giant redleg (M. robustum)
Nhandu:
   Brazilian red (N. carapoensis)
   Brazilian black&white (N. coloratovillosus)
   "Hi-white" morph (N. coloratovillosus?)
Pamphobeteus:
   Brazilian pink (P. sp. "platyomma")
Poecilotheria:
   Sri Lankan ornamental (P. fasciata)
   Salem ornamental (P. formosa)
   Fringed ornamental (P. ornata)
   Indian ornamental (P. regalis)
   Redslate ornamental (P. rufilata) x2
Psalmopoeus:
   Trinidad chevron (P. cambridgei) x0
   Suntiger (P. irminia)
   Panama blond (P. pulcher)
Pterinochilus:
   "Usambara" orange (Pterinochilus sp.) x0
Stromatopelma:
   Featherleg (S. calceatum)
Tapinauchenius:
   "Orange treespider" (T. gigas) x0
Theraphosa:
   Goliath birdeater (T. blondi)

True spiders:
   Bold jumper (Phidippus audax)
   "Tan jumping spider" (Metacyrba undata)
   Wolf spiders (Lycosa sp.?)

Myriopods:
   Florida blue centipede
     (Hemiscolopendra marginata)
   Giant Peruvian centipede
     (Scolopendra sp. "gigantea robusta")
   Red head centipede
     (Scolopendra heros castaneiceps)

Insects:
   Camaroon mantis
     (Sphodromantis sp.)
   Madagascan hissing cockroaches
     (Gromphadorhina portentosa)
   Lobster roaches
     (Naphoeta cinerea)
   House crickets
     (Acheta domesticus)

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February, 2001

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February 3, 2001:
MOLTx2! I've been quite sick so I've been paying little attention to the spiders, let alone updating the page. The H. maculata appears to have molted back on the 29th (or at least I noticed it had white fangs on that date), and one of the A. metallica babies (we'll call it #2) molted yesterday, but lost legs III and IV on the left side in the process. It seemed like the runtiest of the three from the start. I hope it'll make it.

Since it's been so long since I've done any update, I'm making today official spider day, even though I'm still under the weather. So I'll be taking tons of pictures, moving spiders to new cages, and doing a roll call on exactly what each one of the spiders is doing. Hopefully over the next couple days I'll have some more updated stuff to post.

I moved the P. formosa into a 5.5 gallon today. Its retreat had become the whole cage, so I thought it was overdue. Curly #2 and the C. fasciatum were also in need of more space, so they each got moved to pet-pals.

Update: MOLT! The N. carapoensis molted. Also, I was photographing the C. thorelli (which proved to be an excercise in chasing around a spider), and it displayed an odd defensive behavior that I hadn't seen before. If it was running off an edge, or it was trying to evade me on a vertical surface, it would roll up in a ball and just tumble to the ground. It would always land on its back (it repeated this move at least a dozen times). Sometimes it would get right up and start running, other times it would hold still for a few seconds before getting up again...

February 3, 2001:
MOLTx5! Things have been slow, so I haven't been reported much very freqently (other than noting molt dates on the main page). Two have occured over the past couple weeks, but today I had three so I thought it warranted a diary entry. Today's were A. avic #1, A. purpurea #1 and the A. huriana. A. avic #2 molted yesterday, and the second A. metallica baby molted on the 10th. Gotta love them avics.

I've been moving some of the cramped spiders into bigger cages, and I have a few more that NEED to be moved before their next molt. The S. g. robustum is getting bigger, but it's almost impossible to detect when it molts because it eats the skin.

My friend's female regalis recently molted, so I'm trying to keep my male until she's ready (shouldn't be a problem). I'm keeping him out of the spider room where it's cooler to try to keep him going longer. He's made some sperm webs and has done a little wandering.

February 17, 2001:
Today I tried recording several of my T's stridulating, thought the C. cornuatus was the only one to cooperate (check it's page to listen). The T. blondi wouldn't even give me a threat posture or kick hairs or anything. The Usambara and P. irminia just kept trying to bite the mic, though they did do the chelicerae wiggle thing.

February 28, 2001:
I've had a few molts since my last update (as can be seen on the main page), but not much else new... I know I've been really lax on the updates, and the situation will probably only get worse, since I'm going on vacation next week. What I'm going to try to do is update the page and picture album for at least one species almost every day, rather than trying to do one big monolithic time-consuming update. I've updated the geniculata page today, though there wasn't much to update and there aren't any new pictures to share. I'll try to do the A. avicularia this evening.

OH! I do have some news though. I just recieved an order from Realm of Inverts - a Megaphobema robustum (YES!), Chaco golden stripe (Grammostola sp.), a Camaroon mantis (Sphodromantis sp.) and a freebie H. lividum 'ling. I'm rather excited about these additions. Also, I've got an order on the way from Arachnocentric for a Grammostola pulchra and one of the "Hi-white" Brazilopelma (coloratovillosum?) morphs. I'll be interested in seeing how different it is from regular B. coloratovillosum.