Last Thursday these little guys came from in from James Tuttle @ www.blaberus.com I had ordered some Blatta lateralis roaches from him to start a feeder colony but after reading a posting of his on arachnoboards.com I contacted him and got him to include these two 'slings' (spiderlings).
They arrived last Thursday (9/17/2009) after a two day journey from California. Both them and the roaches were perfectly healthy and happy. After I got them set up in their new containers they both ate and began to web up/excavate their new hiding places.
The guy on top is a gorgeous little Avicularia versicolor (Antilles pinktoe). A. versicolor are a glorious metallic dark cyan when young but upon maturing have purple legs, a blue/green cephalothorax and a reddish abdomen. Very nice! They are a New World arboreal species.
The second little guy is a Brachypelma vagans (Mexican redrump). They don't show too much color until they are adults whereupon they get a black velvety cephalothorax and abdomen with larger red setae growing through the black on the abdomen. B. vagans is a New World terrestrial species.
Hopefully I can manage to give updates on them and my new hobby.
