Recently went to Bukit Timah area to search for the Blue Jewel which Bro Jong was mentioning some time ago.
I was really mesmerized by the attractive and unique silvery blue hue on its body. They look everything the same as our
normal T.Bha except its color, also can sense a subtle difference in colour between them and our normal Lampow.

The male has very very short forelegs but it really looks very cute and adorable to me.



On the contrary, the female can be very huge in size , this is the largest female i caught that day.

Head width around 3mm plus body length at around 8mm.


1 more M-size T.Blue female and Subadult male caught.



This is the beautiful place where the Blue Jewels were caught.




Aso


Ramen


This post has been edited by Urahinuk: Sep 3 2010, 11:00 PM

wah, ur Vortex seems like invincible hor. maybe i shld bring my king to challenge...

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Added on September 4, 2010, 2:11 amhey...this female pattern exactly the same like the giant bu viper gave me last time.
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/608348/+680 (post #689)
the abdomen pattern exactly the same, the lines that run at both sides doesn't go down the sides like in T.bhamoensis, but run along the top towards the end, ending with a spot right at the end of the abdomen Size also very big but not fierce. Also they are found at higher altitude place. Another species i think. I didn't think the males would turn out to be smaller, though. I thot that with such a big female then their males would be bigger!! Maybe can wait to see how big ur sub-adult male would turn out. If also small with shorter arms, then, with 3 examples perhaps we can conclude the males in general are small. Yes very cute and colourful, but of course would be no match in fighting against our bigger and fiercer T.bha.

Anyway, great photos u took and also great clips u posted earlier.

This post has been edited by mindstorm: Sep 4 2010, 02:18 AM

yes Vortex is the Raja Labah-labah!!! muahahahahahaha!!!
Vortex is a King-kongpow.
just Vortex vs.Godzilla. i found out when they were pushing, Vortex bit Godzilla's palp.(palp- the 2 things near spiders mouth/jaw)this was amazing coz i never see it before.
yesterday i caught a very small male fs.about 5mm. called him Tinyguy. Very daring to fight Vortex(1.1cm) pushing and suddenly Vortex threw Tinyguy up in the air.
i heard that if u let fs fight when they are hungry they will be more furious.
can feed mosquitoes to fs ah??

Hey Mindstorm, is the Giant Bu Viper gave to you an Old Fs? My one is obviously an old fs with non-sticky legs, didnt even want to eat the crickets, so far only survived with water, i am going to release her soon. Ya i was wondering if there is such size for the female, there should be such L-size for the male too! Haha i will go back there again in hope of seeing the L-size T.Blue Kang then; if i ever see a male with 3mm head width that would be damn impressive. By the way i realised the T.Blue females are behaving differently from our T.Bha females, my M-size T.Blue female would pounce on the male from the back to alert or to ward him off, unlike the more submissive, gentle and shy T.Bha females we seen although there are also chopster females. Furthermore the M-size T.Blue female has a rather white face! So higher altitude places do produce bigger size fs?

Regarding the sub-adult male, "he" is really small now but got very good appetite, 1day can eat up till 5-6 crickets, well let's hope "he" can moult into a bigger male, but i think most likely will moult into the small blue jewel with very short forelegs. I feel that blue colour for fs is always the best colour, what is your favourite colour for fs?

I am posting somemore new fight videos of Chashu, Ramen, Aso and Tarsus. Aso is a recently-moulted fs with little fighting experiences i think, but he is slowly catching up, he finally won Chashu in the 3rd round haha. Ramen is a very good fighter caught by Bro Jong given to me, i think he is the kind of fs who can handle chopsters well. Tarsus is my newly caught ML-size fs today. Among all my fs caught so far, he has the colour i like best but not the largest. It is a kind of seasoned-bluish hue, looks very unique to me.


Aso(bottom) vs Chashu(top) (020910) Round2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF0nQ0nxBkg&feature=channel

Ramen(top) vs Chashu(bottom) (020910) Round2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3RMJjD8ptg&feature=channel

Aso(left) vs Chashu(right) (030910) Round3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wr6opoflpo&feature=channel

Ramen(right) vs Chashu(left) (030910) Round3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWpJsmy2cz0&feature=channel

Lormee to face T.Blue Bu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qI-OA38C_E&feature=channel

Tarsus(left) vs M-size fs(right) (040910)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTe6GMxtvQ&feature=channel

Tarsus's Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwCR2qFvzWw&feature=channel


T.Blue Female


Tarsus


This post has been edited by Urahinuk: Sep 5 2010, 01:20 AM

At first i thought these bugs were caught in a spider's web, but no, they are just big mosquitoes(?)
hanging together. There must be spiders quite happy to take a bite at them, like chickens or ducks hanging at the makan stall.

Big Mosquitoes Hanging Together??

These 2 predators below sure would find them juicy :

Looks like a Female Telamonia Di in her tent of silk/mosquito netting.

Bavia
Spider ID as Bavia thanks to mindstorm

This post has been edited by jong71: Sep 6 2010, 05:00 PM

At long last i managed to ID the unknown species i caught 2 years ago
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/608348/+800 (post #804)
Pancorius magnus
I compared the head pattern of the dead female with this one from this site
http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/pa...iu/magnu-ph.htm

I got the clue when i was looking through these photos from this guy, H. K Tang
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehktang/sets/72157601644202650/
Incredible photos, and best of all, with ID and some notes.
I noticed he ID this male hyllus semicupreus wrongly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehktang/30214...57601644202650/
which i then googled for pancorius since i never come across this genus name before which led me to
the above ID site and also another confirmation photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgfreestyler/3352604475
which i compare to the smaller specimen i took a photo of


damn, 2 years to ID a jumper...

H.K Tang also took some photos of the unknown species i'm keeping now but he also do not know the genus or species
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehktang/21473...57601644202650/

Now this is one strange jumper i never come across before...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ehktang/22121...57601644202650/

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Added on September 5, 2010, 2:51 amhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ehktang/32788...57601644202650/

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Added on September 5, 2010, 2:57 amThe Giant Bu seems quite healthy but maybe aging that's why it slipped and drown.
Not sure if higher altitude spiders are necessarily bigger but i think it has more to do with the temperature i guess. Taiwan/Hongkong Thiania certainly looks bigger.

hmm, dont really have favourite but a solid darker colour seems to be more attractive than light ones.

This post has been edited by mindstorm: Sep 5 2010, 03:04 AM

Weird spider that fans its face and has hind legs like a grasshopper!
Weird Spider

This post has been edited by jong71: Sep 6 2010, 04:56 PM

Hi to all FS bros!

Yesterday met up with Jong and Buaya at NT* to fight our FS.
Currently keeping 4 ML FS, namely Aso, Ramen, Tarsus and Greem.

These are the fights videoed.

Naga(left) vs Ramen(right) - 050910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLnNBRPbu4

Zoro(left) vs Tarsus(right) - 050910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qNGQyoLE-w&feature=channel

Zoro(bottom) vs Aso(top) - 050910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEGS0yA_XSg&feature=channel

Boxer(top) vs Greem(bottom) - 050910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrcDZZHoDk&feature=channel

Chashu(top) vs Ipman(down) - 050910
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V98qoYwSq-c&feature=channel

holycow. where did u catch that?

This post has been edited by mindstorm: Sep 6 2010, 07:43 PM

The Giant Bu i caught previous was very healthy.. i feel its in adult stage.. definitely not OLD.
Its active and alwys move around, its also have strong legs..can jump very far and land with strong heavy feel on my finger.
If old weak fs, its movement is very sluggish or slow... it wont jump when u put ur finger.
If see from the videos, sure can differentiate between adult and old FS liao. Its very gentle type not aggressive.

I use plastic case, its better grip for FS. If using glass type of casing FS will have very hard time to climb up, even young or adult FS, its legs will oso becomes weak.. their legs oso will break off.
No jokes,, last time when i was small i use those peanut butter glass jar.. i see my FS climb up and fell down. its leg entangle by its own web and break off. Also dun spray too much water at the case wall till accumulate become small pool of water at the bottom, FS get drown easily if drop onto the small water... wet wall makes spider easy to fall down.

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Added on September 7, 2010, 1:20 amNice fight videos.

The 1st video quite funny.. the FS shit 1st den go fight with chop attack.

The last video damn gay.... male FS try to mount another male FS ...



Came across this news today.

Seven cows hit by lightning at plantation
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...0566&sec=nation

Wa.. it happen at palm oil estate.... last time i went to my neighour's hometown palm oil before try search for FS.. Lucky no lightning.

This post has been edited by viper88: Sep 7 2010, 11:27 AM

This weird spider was caught by Ura when we went to Bukit Timah recently (post #141).
We used a method he learned when observing a few old timers many years ago.
A styrofoam box (white) was placed under thick bushes and these bushes were shaken.
The results were startling.
Foliage that seemed devoid of animal life suddenly rained all sorts of invertebrates.
Caterpillars, centipedes, ants, grasshoppers, aphids, beetles and many types of spiders large and small, including fs.
Thanks to your reference to HK Tang's webpage the spider is ID as a Portia Labiata....

hey everyone, today i caught a young male chop fs.
very cute, STRONG and DARING. i called him Nightmare.
he dares to fight bigger spiders!!!!

Ya, chop are fierce fighters.

Try fight same size FS.. more lvl play.
If fight other big size FS, ur Nightmare will have worst nightmare or maybe KO later.

wat sort of foliage was that? it can't be cb tree gua?

yeah, i know it is a Portia, that's why i was quite shock cuz i myself have never come across a portia before but only read about its cunning tactics used to catch other spiders as prey. It looks big...it is big?
i think ur clip is the 3rd clip in youtube showing a portia. Ur portia being the most active one. the way it moves and its structure looks likes some sort of transformer robot. Pretty awesome. are u still keeping it?

Hi guys,im new here and from Singapore,chanced upon this spider and i was wondering if the bros here can advice me on how to take care of it.

This post has been edited by Kurse: Sep 8 2010, 08:41 PM

Guys, have you all caught the yellow FS before?

The foliage was the quite common roadside mixed vegetation found in S'pore & Malaysia with the light green "heart shaped" creeper dominating.
The spider was caught next to the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.
Photo thanks to anilds_10 from the earlier forum.

Overall size about 4cm. I released it after taking the video clip.
Not sure what it eats and afraid it may perish in captivity.
The "shakedown method" is very effective in catching whatever is in the bushes.
Those critters can be very hard to spot.
If we catch another one maybe Ura can send it to you in a package, like Seaven, haha!

This post has been edited by jong71: Sep 9 2010, 03:28 AM

Some new FS photos to share.


Aso



Tarsus


Ramen


Greem


Spring

Tarsus vs Aso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c815Uvvei08



Akuma

This post has been edited by Urahinuk: Sep 13 2010, 12:33 AM

seems a male Anderson's house spider
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/s...us_adansoni.htm

make sure u feed it everyday with small insects. u will have to try wat insects to give. some spiders may eat ants and some don't. just drop the insect infront of ur spider. and make sure u give a drop of water everyday and keep it away from insects. make sure ur container got air holes. enjoy ur spider!

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Added on September 10, 2010, 2:37 amwow, never think they can be found in such foliage. yea, it seems they only eat other spiders, mainly orb web spiders... that would make them difficult to keep.
wah, shakedown method is the most powerful method，everything also sapu.

haha, thks for the suggestion but sending spider too expensive. i think i will try to find one in some suburbs around kl, just to look at them close up.

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Added on September 10, 2010, 2:38 amwat yellow fs r u talking about? got pic?

This post has been edited by mindstorm: Sep 10 2010, 02:38 AM

holey moley!!!!!!!!
Nightmare has just killed Godzilla.
Nightmare is a Koppow.
Botox also killed.