Duh! Of course I can see that there are two! They are absolutely gorgeous!
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Jealous!!! 
Blue fang is definitely on my shopping list. In fact, it might end up being my next spider purchase. I’m still missing a fossorial species for my collection, and blue fangs are, in my opinion, one of if not the most stunning fossorial species available.
Gorgeous spiders!
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I’ve got a question for folks who keep arboreals, specifically Psalmopoeus. My P. reduncus is going to need a rehouse after her next molt, and I’m waffling a bit on what size to order for her next enclosure. She’s currently in a small Treehouse from Tarantula Cribs. I’m wondering if I should skip the medium size and move her straight to the large Treehouse. This would mean one less rehouse for a very quick and defensive spider, which would certainly be less stressful for both of us.
Normally the concern with an enclosure that is “too big” is the spider struggling to catch prey, and the keeper having a harder time spotting and monitoring the spider. I feel like that probably wouldn’t be an issue here, as Dory the P. reduncus is out and about quite often and in general has been a very bold, voracious predator when it comes down to hunting prey.
I’m leaning heavily towards ordering a large Treehouse, but I’d be curious to hear some thoughts from those who might be more familiar with keeping this genus. I’d estimate her to have a roughly 2" leg span right now, and I don’t plan to rehouse her until she’s molted again, so she’ll be a bit bigger when I rehouse her.
Picture for tax.
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I have arboreal T’s but not this particular one. However I believe the larger enclosure would be fine as this T looks like it’s a curtain webber or webber of some sort? so the cricket will eventually get caught in the web becoming an easy target.
Just my 2 cents worth…….
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I wouldn’t stress about the larger enclosure, it looks like it will be plenty large enough to be comfortable in the bigger enclosure. As long as there’s a few things to hide around and web onto, they get acclimated pretty quickly to more space. One of my Psalmopoeus irminia about the same size is currently in a 7x7x10, it’s made pretty good use of the space, and I’ve had P. reduncus before in the same amount of space at about the same size, they’ll web up until they’re comfortable as long as they have decent cover to start out with.
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Little climbing crab!! Can’t wait to upgrade the enclosure. Gonna be a bigger enclosure plus a little extension on top on one side for more climbing space. Very excited but i need to wait for either the other crab to show up or just move it into the new enclosure on its own until the other crab shows up to put them back together. Hoping the other crab is still okay, takes all my willpower to not dig him up lol. (Don’t worry i won’t)
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I went tide pooling yesterday (finally made it to the Promised Land of tide pools at low tide, it was awesome) and snapped a few pictures of some fun marine invertebrates.
Here’s a shot of a section of this huge system of tide pools. It’s literally tide pools as far as the eye can see.
Here’s some anemones. The one in the second to last picture is in the process of eating a mussel.
And here’s a very tiny but very sassy hermit crab that decided to pinch me when I put my hand down on his rock. So I scooped him up and made him pose for a photoshoot before putting him back on his rock.
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I love watching them climb. I got to play with some of your crabs’ wild brethren (and a couple non-hermit cousins) yesterday, it was great fun.
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I am so jealous of you right now! 
. Wonderful pics!
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I was so excited to finally make it to that spot! I hadn’t been there since I was a kid and was starting to wonder if I’d imagined it. It’s not super easy to get to. You have to wade across a brackish area and walk along the beach about 2 miles from the parking area, and the whole spot is under water at high tide, so you have to get the timing right to even access it. But it does exist! The whole system is so extensive that I only explored a fraction of it before the tide started coming in and I had head back to avoid getting stuck, but I’ll definitely be going back. It’s a pretty amazing spot.
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Well when you go back please take more pictures! I must say you are pretty brave to go through through all that to get there! 
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Here’s some more pictures from yesterday.
Here’s some harbour seals hauled out on a rock. They were too far away to get really good pictures with my phone, but they were fun to see.
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Went back to the tide pools today and found some fun invertebrates.
First up, mussels, barnacles, and anemones. The stretches of pebbles and bits of shell stuck to the rocks are actually a bunch of closed up anemones. That’s what they look like when they’re completely out of the water. Those patches are squishy if you touch them, it’s super cool and weird.
Next up, crabs! Mainly hermit crabs, but I found a few others as well.
Hermit crab social club:
I picked up the largest shell to see how big that crab was, and this is what I picked up. Not sure what was going on here, but the big one had a hold of the little one in the periwinkle shell.
I’ve seen these tracks in the sand before and wondered what made them. Culprit detected! (It’s a hermit crab)
Also found some crabs that don’t have to steal the shells of other creatures.
So…intertidal ladybugs are a thing. I see several every time I go to the beach. I rescued one out of the surf last week, but this little guy wasn’t in immediate peril, so I just took his picture.
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Seriously Jennifer you are so blessed to be so close to such stunning little creatures. The ocean, the deepest sea, has so many no words to describe living creatures.
Just think, the tiniest little crabs and anemones and ladybugs share a world with the most humongous whales their size one cannot even fathom. But as grand as the sea is with all its inhabitants, it’s just one iota of the creation of creatures on God’s mighty earth that are equally as take your breath away specimens from pole to pole. For me it’s mind blowing. It makes me feel ever so small and humble to share a world with such mastery……
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Yes, I’m extremely fortunate to live somewhere with such easy access to the ocean. I honestly don’t think I’d be happy long-term living somewhere landlocked. All the cities I’ve lived in have been on the coast: Perth, San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Barbara. I start feeling kind of claustrophobic when I get too far inland.
I’m toying with the idea of getting an ocean kayak or paddle board, so I can explore the coast from the water more often. I have an inflatable kayak, but it’s kind of a pain to set up and take down, plus I’m always worried about popping it every time I hit a rock or have to land it on a rocky patch of beach (it’s pretty tough, hasn’t happened yet, but it’s still a worry). But I love paddling out on the water, and I’d really like to do it more often.
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My mum says my chilean rose female T is suddenly very interested in buff striking the glass of her enclosure, after 2 years in the same spot, same tank, no problems.
Any ideas invert folks? 
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Has she molted recently? I’ve heard that sometimes T’s can have an attitude change after a molt.
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She’s an older gal and hasn’t molted in…2 years? Maybe a molt is coming up and she’s feeling cramped in her exoskeleton. I’ll let my mum to keep an eye out for thicker web carpets and an upside down lady 
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Hermit crab enclosure upgrade!!! I got their new 30 gallon all set up and ready to go today! I still need to get a lot more climbing stuff for the walls and need to find my hamster wheel but i’m very happy about this. I moved one of my crabs to this one and just left the other one that has been buried in the old enclosure, hopefully it’ll show up soon so they can be reunited. Still debating on if i should get another crab because it’s 10 gallons per crab but i’ll probably just wait until i have the two crabs together for a little and see if they seem lonely or anything.
Side note: i got very lucky and got both this tank and stand for free from a friend. Very happy i didn’t have to spend any money on the tank and got a stand with it lol, it fits perfectly in my room
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Been a while almost a year since I posted in here
Here’s a picture of my Tliltocatl albopilosus now it’s in premolt again after two months I’m probably gonna bare the enclosure so I can see if the molt goes well and just cover the enclosure with a black tshirt and leave a side for ventilation
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