Feet

[VanessaS]

I'm obsessed with spinnerets and spider feet. Their little feet are so adorable. I've noticed something that I hadn't before because the colouring of my spiders before now has been more uniform - they can extend and retract the little fuzzy bits on the tips of their toes. This little gold fan is not always visible - it expands when they're climbing or needing to grip with their nails. When they're relaxed, it doesn't show.
I'm sure there is a far more scientific way to describe it, and what is happening, but until I can do a bit of research that is the best I've got. I just thought it was super interesting.

 

[Sam Sam]

I'm the same. It's so cool. hey are amazing, great pics of them. I once saw one of my T's cross his spinnerets as if it were fingers. So cute. It melts my heart and now it's the first place I look.

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[Phil]

I'm obsessed with spinnerets and spider feet. Their little feet are so adorable. I've noticed something that I hadn't before because the colouring of my spiders before now has been more uniform - they can extend and retract the little fuzzy bits on the tips of their toes. This little gold fan is not always visible - it expands when they're climbing or needing to grip with their nails. When they're relaxed, it doesn't show.
I'm sure there is a far more scientific way to describe it, and what is happening, but until I can do a bit of research that is the best I've got. I just thought it was super interesting.

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So......you have a foot fetish huh.....lol. only messing,,those little hooks look awesome.

 

[Nicolas C]

It's time for you to buy a pink foot tarantula, isn't it?

Yesterday, I saw the tarsi and metatarsi of my adult female Lampropelma violaceopes (or whatever is the new name!): it's such a great sight, they are so large, just as if there were feathers at the end of her feet! Wish I could have taken a picture!

 

[VanessaS]

It's time for you to buy a pink foot tarantula, isn't it? !

It's funny that you say that because I was looking at someone's avic photos yesterday and thinking "They have feet like little snowshoes just like lynx do!"
And I have been looking at the Tarantula Canada's new pricelist, updated today, and they have 3/4" Avicularia laeta and Avicularia sp. Peru Purple for only $25.
I'm not sure if I am ready for an arboreal, but those Avicularia sp. Peru Purple are pretty freakin' adorable!
Are they really more difficult to keep?

 

[kormath]

It's funny that you say that because I was looking at someone's avic photos yesterday and thinking "They have feet like little snowshoes just like lynx do!"
And I have been looking at the Tarantula Canada's new pricelist, updated today, and they have 3/4" Avicularia laeta and Avicularia sp. Peru Purple for only $25.
I'm not sure if I am ready for an arboreal, but those Avicularia sp. Peru Purple are pretty freakin' adorable!
Are they really more difficult to keep?

super easy. I have a 3/4" sling of the sp Peru Purple myself lots of cross ventilation is key. I don't have a waterdish in my avic enclosures. I built the enclosure and set everything in it and forgot the dish. Now i can't put it in without destroying the setup. So i mist mine twice a week or so on one side of the enclosure near the web so it gets droplets on both. My avics drink these droplets and get the rest of their hydration from their prey.

Both of my avics - versicolor about 1.5" and the sp Peru Purple - are in the tall amac boxes, 2.5" sq. by 6" tall or somewhere around that. They need lots of anchor points to web on. I drilled small (3/32") holes down 2 opposite sides for ventilation, and also used those holes to anchor fake plant limbs and leaves in for anchor points.

I believe i have pics of the enclosures in my pic thread. If not i'll take some tonight and post them.

@Chubbs is our resident Avic guru he may have more tricks he can teach us.

 

[Entity]

great pics @VanessaS

 

[Scoolman]

Movements of Scopulate Claw Tufts At the Tarsus Tip of a Tarantula Spider
ArticleinNetherlands Journal of Zoology 45(3):513-520 · December 1993with6 Reads
DOI: 10.1163/156854295X00447
tJason A Dunlop

• 37.98 · Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity

Abstract
The scopulate claw tufts at the tip of the tarsus in the tarantula spider Grammostola cala [nearly all tarantula] spread out during locomotion to provide a greater area of contact for these hairs involved in gripping the substrate. This spreading action of the claw tufts is coupled to the depression of the tarsal claws and is brought about by the tufts inserting on the arthrodial membrane either side of the tarsus-claw articulation and spreading as this membrane is drawn forwards during claw depression. Hydrostatic haemolymph pressure may also play a part in spreading the tufts. The claws and claw tufts are coupled to act together to increase grip during locomotion on uneven surfaces. Tarsal scopulae may have a role in prey capture in theraphosids.

 

[VanessaS]

Movements of Scopulate Claw Tufts At the Tarsus Tip of a Tarantula Spider
ArticleinNetherlands Journal of Zoology 45(3):513-520 · December 1993with6 Reads
DOI: 10.1163/156854295X00447
tJason A Dunlop

• 37.98 · Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity

Abstract
The scopulate claw tufts at the tip of the tarsus in the tarantula spider Grammostola cala [nearly all tarantula] spread out during locomotion to provide a greater area of contact for these hairs involved in gripping the substrate. This spreading action of the claw tufts is coupled to the depression of the tarsal claws and is brought about by the tufts inserting on the arthrodial membrane either side of the tarsus-claw articulation and spreading as this membrane is drawn forwards during claw depression. Hydrostatic haemolymph pressure may also play a part in spreading the tufts. The claws and claw tufts are coupled to act together to increase grip during locomotion on uneven surfaces. Tarsal scopulae may have a role in prey capture in theraphosids.

I have spent the last couple of days searching for this and couldn't find a thing! You're awesome, sir. Thank you very much.

 

[VanessaS]

When I googled 'Scopulate Claw Tufts' it even has a bunch of images to go along with it. Awesome.

 

[MassExodus]

This is cool. I have scopulate claw tufts, as well. Im going to climb my picture window..