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Thanks, I will ask them...

Hi, I regularly breed albopilosum for several years, but the wild form is really a spider. Do you know about a source of wild form albo anywhere in Europe? Eastern Europe would be even better. Thanx. V.

She molted more than 6 months ago, I do not remember exactly, but it looked still the same ... fresh .... depends what do you mean. It is not wet, but dry like a burn mark. I also think that the reason lies beneath her skin. Some kind of ulcer. Never noticed a problem during molting, it went as...

Despite advices, I let her to mate. She rewarder me with a sac containing over 900 slings... But she still has the wound unchanged.

Two years after my original report, and two successfull molts, but the spider still has the same scar. No change of size. Does anyone has an idea what is it? Thank you.

For those who are interested, I just found a report on Brachypelma klaasi having very similar wound: http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?261844-Brachypelma-Klaasi-is-sick&p=2332155#post2332155

Hi, I would like to report strange behaviour of my B. boehmei during mating. I have female 2 months after a molt and recently received an adult male, also about 2-3 months after molt. When I kept them in boxes next to each other, they both immediately started drumming. This convinced me that...

After a year and one molt, the would is smaller, but still it is there. I hope that next year it disappears.

Thanks for your opinion

One of my adult B. smithi females has a strange mark on the abdomen. The lesion is is dry, no leakage observed, no progression for 3 months (when I first noticed it). She is fit, eating regularly, even mating. I purchased her about 4 month ago, and I did not notice the lesion in that time (the...

Thanks for your reply. I have seen him under the sperm web before the first (successfull) mating. After a week I noticed residues of what could be the sperm web, but not 100% sure. This could be the case, alhouht I speculate that males might be able to mate again without necessity to refill up...

I have adult pair of B. smithi, unrelated and both are freshly molted. I have put the male to her and observed one successfull insert (I hope it was OK), but when I repeated it (already 5x, 3-5 days between individual trials), the male behave strangely. He drummed, she nicely raised her...