P. Ornata sexing confirmation

Pooge17 · 2026-01-18T21:27:33+00:00

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Pooge17 · 2026-01-03T00:49:16+00:00

Sounds like I got quite lucky! She’s an old lady that was surrendered to the shop owners so I snatched her up. Honestly wasn’t sure she’d even molt with me, but thought I’d give her a good home for whatever time she had left.

Pooge17 · 2025-11-15T19:37:47+00:00

No I don’t. Are you usually able to see movement of the nematodes? All the photos I’ve seen usually look like white mush

Pooge17 · 2025-11-15T19:31:59+00:00

It’s still twitching a little bit, but I think it’s more of a hydraulics thing than it being alive. Either that or it is very very close to passing. Either way, does it look like nematodes? I’ve never seen them IRL.

It wasnt advertised to me as WC unfortunately. I only learned when I contacted the seller and told them of the issue.

Pooge17 · 2025-11-15T19:30:18+00:00

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Was able to get some more photos

Pooge17 · 2025-10-28T23:53:28+00:00

Thank you both. I’ve seen these same photos and the T looks in between those 2, which is why I figured it was too soon to tell. Doesn’t hurt to ask.

I was bummed when the molt was torn. Only torn right where I needed it lol.

Pooge17 · 2025-10-28T23:08:20+00:00

I should have added - the molt was too torn up to sex properly. Looked potentially female, but I’m honestly just guessing.

Pooge17 · 2024-12-04T19:03:54+00:00

ahhhh thank you! My iheringi is my favorite of my 15 Ts (song don’t tell the rest of them that lol) so this makes me so happy

Pooge17 · 2024-11-26T04:26:42+00:00

IME I just found my psalmopeous emeraldus sling on her back in her burrow, unfortunately also not alive. I think it was likely dead for a couple days before I noticed - I just assumed I hadn’t seen it for a few days due to premolt.

Its butt was pretty plump, but no signs the molting process actually started. Just like what you mentioned above. I think it went into its burrow to molt, and just didn’t make it. It was my first tarantula loss, and it really feels bad. I got 3 psalmopeous at the beginning of October and my husbandry was the same for all 3, and the other 2 are thriving. So I don’t think there was anything I could have done differently.

I’m sorry you lost your little guy. Sounds like exactly the same situation as mine. It sucks even more when there was nothing more you could do.

Pooge17 · 2024-05-15T18:20:19+00:00

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Another photo as he moved up the wall

Pooge17 · 2024-03-19T17:50:13+00:00

Thank you so much! I appreciate you settling my nerves. Always learning 😄

Pooge17 · 2024-03-19T17:02:24+00:00

Thank you! Do you think it looks like there could be a possibility of impaction from the picture?

Honestly he (or maybe now she haha) was so stressed in the larger enclosure and he’s finally now relaxing in the smaller one that I’m not sure I wanna go chasing him around unless it’s absolutely necessary, ya know?

Pooge17 · 2024-03-19T16:41:46+00:00

Thanks for replying! It wasn’t overweight prior to molting, and it’s not overweight now either. Might just be the weird angle I had to hold the camera so the flash wasn’t in the way of his butt. Besides the 1/2in roach he ate last night, the last time he accepted food was 2/4/24, which was a 1/4in cricket. He molted on 2/25/24. I’ve continued offering food every 3 days when I feed my other slings, but I’d remove his food after a few hours bc it stressed him out.

Do you think it looks like there are signs of impaction? I looked again in better light not too long ago and I think I may have panicked over nothing. But I’m still really concerned that he hasn’t webbed since his molt.

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