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cacoseraph
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i am about to get a mature female C. longi' and i really
really REALLY want to get this species established in the
hobby this time around! (due to living situation a
couple/few years back i had to get rid of virtually all
my bugs, including the two (or three?) species of
Calisoga i collected on an awesome bug trip)
i was wondering who else keeps them?
i am also looking for mature males for purchase, trade,
or 50/50
[IMG]http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/cacoseraph/my
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(note: *technically* this spider is known as Brachythele
longitarsus... but that just plain doesn't make sense and
a worker needs to fix it)
you know, i bet i could fix your forums stupid image
problems (i actually used the built in text editor and it
is still broken) if i used tinyurl.com or tinyimg.com
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it appears males can mature in about 2 years then,
possibly a bit less. *i would guess that means a female
could be mature in maybe 3-5 years, grown the same way.
*which means about a 10-15 year life span, grown the same
way
so i would guess they can do about 20 years in nature, if
they are lucky
VERY rough extrapolations, of course :)
they do seem to be somewhat substantiated by other
captive experiences... i.e. having mature females live 3+
years in captivity
man, that actually makes me pretty happy. if they grew *a
bit faster i wold be a bit happier... but i am well
pleased with that. *they grow quick enough that if we do
things right we could have a good amount of breedable,
beautiful mature females in 4-6 years. *that's not so
very bad. *some of the dang local tarantulas roughly
double all those time values i gave
oh man! * if everyone is very careful we might be able to
selectively breed them to be faster growing! *it would be
pretty easy... everyone who wants to play along at home
would just need to track how fast their various slings
mature... and we would just breed all the fastest
maturing together. *then we can line breed the fastest
maturing male from the first round of selective breeding
back to his mom to hopefully lock in those fast growing
genes. a bit more play like that and i bet we could get
males that mature in 1.25 or 1.5 years by the third
generation. *we might even be able to compress that down
to a year by the fifth or sixth generation if we are
lucky. *once we have fast growing spiders we can then
breed for color or size and not have to wait 20 years to
do 4 or 5 female generations.
of course, we would have to be careful to cull out any
spiders who manifest goofiness or ugliness =P
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cacoseraph wrote:
you know, i bet i could fix your forums stupid image
problems (i actually used the built in text editor and it
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Unfortunatley, this site seems to be dying. I havent seen Tim (The Admin) post for a very long time, and nobody seems to post anymore. Actually, I dont think that Tim is even in the hobby anymore, I saw that he was selling all of his Ts.
This was the first forum I joined, and this is my favorite forum, but its starting to burn out. A shame really.
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it's always sad to see another bug forum fall. maybe
someone can contact the admin and get him to turn over the
reins?
i'm going to try to tinyurl that pic and see if i am right
:)
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try #2
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yup. the parser inserts a linebreak into any img url that
is over about 80 characters long (which is ALL of mine)
tinyurl.com didn't work but tinyimage.net did.
well, good to know, i guess
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Thats a great picture! Are those a wolf spider or trapdoor spider, or what?
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they are mygalomorphs, like tarantulas, trapdoors, sydney
funnelwebs, etc.
so closer to tarantulas than wolves. they are kinda like
tarantulas that only get to 3-4"DLS and don't really have
sticky pads (scopulae) like a real tarantula does. they
can't walk on vertical glass like a tarantula can.
the genus seems to tend to be fairly cranky. they
actually performed like the obt's rep would lead you to
expect, in the dozen or so i brought to captivity in my
day. i have seen mature females slap the ground with
their front two pairs of legs to do a like, war hop.
it's actually fairly scary considering they are mouse
sized =P
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