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Ziggy and Lolth

I am unsure whether I have mentioned this previously, but Poe - my Poecilotheria metallica - finally has a permanent name. He is now Ziggy, as in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. It suits him somehow. At the moment, he is not a very active spider - he has built himself a little teepee and covered it in substrate to hide in, so he spends 90% of his time in there. He only really comes out when he's hungry, though I haven't managed to get a decent photograph of that yet. He has molted since he came home, and is currently sitting somewhere between 2 and 3 cm across, (diagonally) but I rarely see him stretched out as he likes to keep his legs in a distinctive position. The front four legs get stretched out in front, and the back 4 get stretched out in the back. It can be seen in this photo, where you can also see his red mouth and his fangs:
Since going into his larger braplast, I've seen almost nothing of Lolth. He has dug himself a hole to hide in. I try to disturb him as little as possible, as I suspect he may be going into premolt, and I don't want to stress him out. But occasionally I look in on him just to be sure he's not in a death curl. Here he is, after I've lifted his hide off the top of his hole. He's all tucked in on himself, but you can just about see the skull pattern on his rump that I love so much. Hopefully he will come out to show us his new clothes soon.


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