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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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March, 2001

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March 2, 2001:
A couple spiders arrived today from Arachnocentric, a G. pulchra and one of those "Hi-white" color morph Brazilopelma (possibly coloratovillosum, but the jury's still out). The Brazilopelma is the smallest spiderling I've yet seen. It slightly beats out the previous champ, the A. fracta.

Also, I recieved a male B. boehmei to mate to Raul. He seemed to get rather cold during shipment, but is slowly coming around as I warm him up, so hopefully he'll make it.

Last night, when feeding the T's, I noticed that H. gigas #1 was curled up and looking dehydrated. When I took it out to try to help it, it was still trying to evade me, but slowly, which I took as a good sign. I put it in a small container with moist TP and a dish of water. It immediately jumped in the dish and started drinking for a long time. After it was totally waterlogged (it was literally soaking wet) it crawled out and seems recovered. I gave the other H. gigas an extra good misting and made sure to thorougly re-moisten the substrate.

Update: The B. boehmei male seems to have warmed up and recovered.

March 9, 2001:
MOLTx2! Not to much happened while I was gone. The only molt was the last of the A. metallica (#4). It was extreemly fresh, so I assume it happened yesterday shortly before I got home. Today, Speck (c. cyaneopubescens) molted into maturity. I'll give him a few weeks to make a sperm web before placing him with the females. The timing couldn't be better - the females just molted in January.

I've also got the P. regalis and B. boehmei to mate this weekend.

March 12, 2001:
MOLTx3! The P. fasciata molted saturday, and the T. gigas and P. cambridgei both molted into mature males yesterday. I'm shocked at how small the T. gigas is. It's not even 4 inches, but it's definately matured.

Also, I attempted matings of the B. boehmei and P. regalis. The male boehmei is definately getting old and looking pretty sad. He did make advances toward my female eventually, but the encounter did not appear to be a sucessful mating.

The P. regalis is another story. I placed the female with the male and will let them cohabit. Last night there was quite a bit of courtship and several of what appear to maybe be matings (though they would best be described as two spiders grappling and zipping around the cage). The female seemed very receptive.

March 14, 2001:
MOLTx2! A. versicolor #2 molted yesterday and Curly #2 molted the day before. Also, the mantis has molted as some point, but I am not sure when. There is a discarded skin at the bottom of the cage, and it is definately bigger though. The centipede continues to grow much bigger, but I can never tell when it molts.

Update: MOLT! The hi-white Brazilopelma molted.

March 15, 2001:
I made another attempt at breeding the B. boehmei tonight, and it appears to have been successful. Check out the breeding section for details.

March 23, 2001:
There's been seven molts here and there over the last week. The A. metallica with the missing legs successfuly regenerated functional ones, though they're small. Other molters include the G. actaeon, N. carapoensis, M. robustum, P. rufilata #2 and the B. smithi.

Last night I saw Kuni constructing a molting mat. She was working on it all evening (she had a substantial mat before I got home from work, and was still working on it 8 hours later when I went to bed). She kept walking over it, laying more silk, and also laying down urticating hairs. About 3am I gave up on a chance of seeing her actually molt, and she had finished by 9am.