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It’s time for me to introduce a special little lady!
This is Aurora, a 9mm DLS Typhochlaena seladonia..I call her her but I obviously don’t know!
She was sent to me as a total surprise, totally out the blue! You can imagine MY surprise!
I live in the U.K and it was sold here but ordered by my best friend in the whole world and soulmate who lives in the USA.
I haven't been well for quite some time but found out I could have a very important operation soon, and as a celebration of this news he was so sweet and kind and sent Aurora to me.
I called her Aurora which means Dawn as he hopes that she will herald a new dawn in my life.
So I have had her for three weeks now and was waiting for her and more importantly me as a novice to make sure she was o.k before I posted here, I am very aware of the fragility of these and arboreals and I am a terrestrial keeper.
So within hours she had selected one of the pre drilled holes on a piece of tronchos cork branch, and immediately set about tearing off pieces of lichen so construct a trap door, in a matter of hours she had finished, she also lined the hole with silk.
Today I sprayed her as usual and on the floor of her house I found a molt! So I’m delighted she molted successfully.
Viewing her is difficult because she stays in her house but I will add a few pictures, sorry, not good ones but I hope if she ventures out I can get some better ones.
Anyway, that’s her and my story. The jewel in my collection.
Aurora.
I will add this one web photo, so you can see how amazing they are. I can’t credit I’m afraid, I don’t know it’s source.
This isn’t her LOL!
This is her door she made, because I watched her make it I knew where it was but if I didn’t, I could never guess.
This is Aurora, a 9mm DLS Typhochlaena seladonia..I call her her but I obviously don’t know!
She was sent to me as a total surprise, totally out the blue! You can imagine MY surprise!
I live in the U.K and it was sold here but ordered by my best friend in the whole world and soulmate who lives in the USA.
I haven't been well for quite some time but found out I could have a very important operation soon, and as a celebration of this news he was so sweet and kind and sent Aurora to me.
I called her Aurora which means Dawn as he hopes that she will herald a new dawn in my life.
So I have had her for three weeks now and was waiting for her and more importantly me as a novice to make sure she was o.k before I posted here, I am very aware of the fragility of these and arboreals and I am a terrestrial keeper.
So within hours she had selected one of the pre drilled holes on a piece of tronchos cork branch, and immediately set about tearing off pieces of lichen so construct a trap door, in a matter of hours she had finished, she also lined the hole with silk.
Today I sprayed her as usual and on the floor of her house I found a molt! So I’m delighted she molted successfully.
Viewing her is difficult because she stays in her house but I will add a few pictures, sorry, not good ones but I hope if she ventures out I can get some better ones.
Anyway, that’s her and my story. The jewel in my collection.
Aurora.
I will add this one web photo, so you can see how amazing they are. I can’t credit I’m afraid, I don’t know it’s source.
This isn’t her LOL!
This is her door she made, because I watched her make it I knew where it was but if I didn’t, I could never guess.
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