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that sucks. you can have my little one if you like, but I would be interested to know how fast she grows. so you'd have to post updates here at least annually

ew full credit. i knew someone on here would be game enough sooner or later. i almost held one the other night, but na not for me. i can just imagine me chucking it across the room if it tries to bite haha

this is the smallest one i have ever seen this is my other one next to a vivid about two years ago. pretty much fully grown, so not all that big really.

6.5x7cm

Great photos. Their fangs look overkill eh.

tidy looking tank..well as far as spider webs are concerned . i rather like the no substrate look. has it got any holes for ventilation?

1. 2. every bit of vermiculite is linked with web. 3. Folded back substrate out she comes. 4. 5. Viv for my larger one. 6. 7. Gave it a 5 minute clean today. Just cut around main tunnel, pulled out all the excess web (comes out super easy with a little sand on top of the peat) along with moth carcass's, topped up with perlite. Pumice sand is better. 8. this is where she has burrowed into the peat. enough pics?

Can vaguely remember seeing a shed/part of one ages ago, but in the two years I have had my big one I would of thought she had shed more than that... hmm wonder if she has been eating them .. or given she was large when i got her it could be down to a lack of growth = no need to shed? The fangs are impressive eh. I wonder what a bite feels like. Better go do some work. Will get some pics later on.

I find if fed more than once a week they start losing interest or at least don't come running out of their tunnels like they do if fed once every 2-4wks. I give it moths more than anything else. Outside light at night will see you right in just a few minutes with out a fight. :sml2: Mine has mainly peat substrate, and a type of spider plant that seems to do well on neglect just like the spider. Use to mist every couple of days/week, even had a water dish in the beginning. Now just keep substrate damp, can't remember the last time i misted the tank tbh, has been dry for weeks at a time and spider looks all good. Have noticed her tunnel has been dug down into the substrate so maybe she is damp enough in there. Got given a young tunnel web just the other week, keeping her in container with just vermiculite substrate. She's lurking under the vermiculite like a trapdoor spider atm. Could be just too warm where you have the tank? I always keep mine in the coolest part of the house, very occasionally give it some morning sun (for the plant mainly), but have a feeling they prefer it on the cooler side in general..

ore black ones? probably my favourite

cool, could be more to come? yindilings :lol:

you can take the strain in NZ, or become a strain in Aus.

great photos. the kune kune looks like a character.

fingers x'd for you, but they remind of the many clutches i had that nothing much ever came of. they are dented in the photo eh? or am i just seeing things ..

good eggs should be more plump, and white imo. if dents appear after you dig them up then could just be dehydrated. add a little bit more water to container etc.

I wouldn't hold my breath on the above. Still keep them as Alan said. Were they dented like that when you first dug them up?

yeah always got my eye out for anything different. will send any double ups your way.

found some carpet beetles on an endive plant the other day want some of those? got at least 2 march flies here for ya aswel

about 5mm, found under dry bit of driftwood ...

petshop :sml2:

imagine these two stuck in a small enclosure

yep, blue tongues tend to crack and spit out the shell, then eat the snail. bds i had never liked snails

thought gambusia was an unwanted organism? http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=421248807

males can be rather territorial. i kept two together in the past in a large eclosure wth only one hide. some nights both would be in there, but about 3-4nights a week one skink would sleep on top of the hide. and often a different skink from one night to the next. was like first to get in the hide ruled the roost for the night lol also notice that if putting a skink (possibly just males?) into a new enclosure, especially one that has had/has a skink in, one of the first things they like to do is rub there scent on the entry to the hide. fascinating little sausages.

Show us a pic if you like ... If she is still eating there is probably no need to worry?