Freshly molted P. irminia, about to turn 1 year old
Posted Dec 30, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC
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IM OBSESSED!!!! I just ordered one for myself for christmas
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What a beautiful creature
Sincerely Arachnophobe
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I'm glad you like it! I hope you can overcome your fear. Getting accustomed to the way they look is definitely a big step forward!
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Cool!
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I wish I could type the noise that came out of my mouth when I saw this sexy spider. Damn. Thanks for sharing.
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Holy cow the color pattern just pops. So gorgeous!!!
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Stunning!! I love my adult female!!
Absolutely love when I catch them flicking boluses, etc. They can flick them pretty far lol
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She is absolutely stunning! I can't wait until my slings reach this size (and hopefully one will turn out to be female).
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Cute little Halloween spood 😍🥰
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Beautiful 😎
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That’s a badass looking spood.
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Nice, he looks great
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Omg what a stunner
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Oh she’s a gorgeous girl!
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Legit my dream species rn 😍😍😍
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we all want to touch the feets.
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Stunningly gorgeous 😍😍😍
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Here are some other shenanigans that I recorded that day:
Her gifting me her molt
And some substrate yeet in slowmotion
She's such a fun spider to have and I'm so glad I can share these moments with this community
edit: The second video is now submitted as a regular post :)
This is great, you should post the substrate video as it's own submission
Thanks! I appreciate that! But truth be told, since it's against the subreddit rules to double post, I couldn't decide which thing to post, so I eventually decided to just post the best photo I took and add the extra videos (that take more time to watch) in the comments.
I could post it separately, if the mods would allow me. The quality in slowmo isn't too great, but people may find the video itself interesting/funny enough to turn a blind eye on that :)
I’m sure it’s fine, I double and triple post back to back feeding videos all the time
Agreed. I audibly laughed out loud at the substrate yeet. 12/10 content.
Yeah its funny, please post it seperately lol
it's not against this subreddits rules to double post :-) must be a different subreddit.
would love to see!
I found the rule right here, but I will happily make a separate post :) thank you!
So cute!!! She likes to keep her house clean 😆😍
Shes so cute carrying her molt too
So much personality I’m obsessed with her what’s her naaaameeeeee
No name, at least from me.
I call all of my Ts either "a spider" and other similar goofy words (when talking to them) or by their scientific names or Polish nicknames that resemble their scientific names (when referring to them in a conversation/discussion). For example "Irka" for irminia or "Gienia" instead of geniculata, both words are hypocorisms of Polish female names. Brachypelma species get called braszka (not a name, but still a hypocorism) and so on, you get the idea.
My mom however, calls her Katarzyna (Catarina) for no specific reason. This one is an official female name and not a hypocorism.
She also calls my geniculata "Gienia", also for no reason, but this one is ironic enough, because even though she has zero idea about tarantula species and the names, it happens to be a very popular Polish nickname for this exact species, vastly used among the hobbyists. Talk about a coincidence
this spider deserves a name bud.
I guess so. I'm not too good at naming, but I was thinking Sandy
LMAO, she put a lot of effort into that substrate fling! “Get this outta my face!”
It looked a little dangerous for her trying to get the molt out. I've seen some cool setups that let you drop the 'jar' into a platform when you pop the top so they can excavate and stretch without fall danger.
I understand your concern, but this is an arboreal species, they are great jumpers and I've seen them willingly jump from as high as about a meter and a half without injuring themselves.
The height here was about 24 centimeters and the whole action took place on a soft bed, so I believe even an unfortunate fall wouldn't hurt her. That's less than twice the leg spans of height we're talking about.
Of course chances are I'm wrong and she could damage herself, but I think she knows what she's doing, as I didn't intervene. I just observed what she's up to, since she opened up her totally sealed nest and finally allowed me to embrace her new looks and wasn't even startled when I moved her onto the bed and opened the lid. Then became all active and that's the story :D
As for the setup you mentioned, I'm interested to see it, mind sharing some pics or videos of that type of enclosure? I think I get the idea, but I'm not sure, really