Face to face direct fight?
Chops are fierce killers. Their bites are deep and normally can break its opponent thick arm.
Bloody fight most of the time..Its more like fight to kill instead of testing strength or fighting skill like the normal FS.

Only strong FS can give chops a good fight.

Chops vs Chops will be one hell of a fight.

I still remember last time my 1st king - HOPE vs 2nd King - Crossfire.... both oso fierce chop...
Check it out my previous fs fight..Crossfire is slightly bigger and attack with fast chop and basically banging its opponent body hard while attacking but HOPE is a tough fighter to deal with..its counter bites is damn pain...in the end Crossfire have to retreat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cPR9z-ynQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zsIUpPVL-o&NR=1

This post has been edited by viper88: Sep 13 2010, 02:51 PM

ok thanks for the info viper88.
btw caught 2 males today, Bigfoot & Confused.
well Vortex vs. Confused very violent fight, Vortex win by throw and chop.
after that Vortex ate him.
then Vortex vs. Bigfoot normal fight, Vortex win by 1 throw.

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Added on September 14, 2010, 12:24 amsorry no pics of Vortex yet. camera rosak.

This post has been edited by VIPER57: Sep 14 2010, 12:24 AM

Wow..ur vortex strong.

Tuesday evening spent some time around some forest edge in some rich housing estate. Another sort of adhoc scouting cuz i was visiting my sister who was sick and she stay near that area. Again, tough luck looking for jumpers. Despite scouting around some thick foliage at prime time around 5pm, I failed to spot any interesting jumper. Definately no fs. Well, jumper or none i still enjoy hanging around the greens and breathing in the cool fresh forest air.


Heavy leaf litter.

Did manage to find one juvenile pancorius. It was happily eating another type of red spider before it got disturbed by me. With the white marking running down the middle of its head, it looks like a female.


Later in the evening, I moved to another spot where there was a population of fs to be found in these big leaves plant, both juveniles and adults. It was interesting that i just lift one of them leaves and there sits a male. 3 males i spotted but i took home only one, the biggest one. But it is only M size. Yet to test it against the first king i'm having. It is interesting to note how fs populations tend to be concentrated in one area, for further up or down the road even in the same plant types i found not one fs, not even a juvenile.



I also lurked around some cb plants and manage to find a small bavia female with eggs inside a dried up cb leaf.
I have gotten this small species before. At first i thought they were juvenile slings to the huge one i once had. But I think they may be a different species considering the female are able to lay eggs at such a small size, even smaller than a normal fs male. This finding is the second female with eggs i have seen.
Looking carefully, u can see the slings have banded abdomen pretty much like some cartoon bubblebee.



On a side note, my hyllus semi slings are doing pretty well, around 20 of them moulted into 2nd instar and not one dead. The 1st instar turn out to be pretty big, being equivalent to 3rd instar fs slings. The genus hyllus slings are pretty awesome, easily taking prey similar or even slightly larger than their own size even at first instar. Here's one tackling a pinhead cricket.


This post has been edited by mindstorm: Sep 16 2010, 03:12 AM

Hello guys....

Bro Ura and Jong, thumbs up to you guys for the persistency in the fs spot. Sad to say I've been MIA for quite sometimes and hopefully I could join you guys for one of the weekends hunt

Hi Bro Trevally, i guess Bro Jong and myself we are really hardcore and enthusiastic about fs that's why we still hunt alot of fs until now, nothing to do with persistency. Currently, except we 2, only Bro Vincent, Buaya(aka Peter) and the Pakcekop Clan still keeping and hunting fs.

So will you be back for playing fs regularly this time? Or just once in a blue moon again!!?

Anyway the T.Blue subadult i caught on the 2nd this month has moulted last sunday.. but not into the short arms male as i expected previously, he looks much bigger than i expect, i think about the size of SL(small large) for now.
I will try to rear him till ML size or even larger! just like what we have seen, the T.Blue female can be so huge(refer to earlier post #141), so why not the male, since this subadult i named him Charlotte, can become a normal male.

Here's the photo


This post has been edited by Urahinuk: Sep 16 2010, 01:22 PM

hey guys!! wanted to ask u guys how do you check the age of a fs??

Hey Viper why not ask the fs yourself?

well, fs cant talk.
but if they r old the are weak and color on abdomen will fade alot.
rite???

In captivity old spiders are darker n drink alot of water.....

Stripe spider wearing a white tennis racket on its head!
Stripe spider
Greenhead spider with neon pink abdomen!
GreenHead


This post has been edited by jong71: Sep 18 2010, 12:17 AM

thanks for the info!!
lucky Vortex isnt old yet

white face already...still can grow bigger meh?
how big is "small large"?? is the emphasis on the small or on the large?

Yes, i believe still able to grow more since he is a just-moulted fs considered a very young fs, plus i been feeding him alot.

It is also based on the past fs-es i kept before, i witnessed them growing bigger(usually half a size or a size up only) after around a month's time, maybe becos we are feeding them with crickets daily(sometimes they can eat up to 4-5 crickets a day), and so everytime their stomach are really full and big, becos in the wild most of the time they dont eat till that full i think. Especially for those young-looking and shiny fs which got good digestion, fat stomach become small shortly then keep eating n eating, even 3weeks later can see some difference, not merely becoming darker as time goes by i feel.

SL is the size between ML and BM, the emphasis is on the "large". All the fs photos i posted in (#158) are all within the size of ML, to be more precise we call them big ML. While the only L-size(a size above ML) fs i caught was Royal.

This is the size category in ascending order:

S cat
1. S - (small)

M cat
2. SM - (small medium)
3. M - (medium)
4. BM - (bigger medium)

L cat
5. SL - (small large)
6. ML - (medium large)
7. L - (large)
8. XL - (extra large)
9. KK - (king kong)

I will monitor Charlotte's growth over the weeks to come and let you know if he really grow a size up(the ideal case!).
Well but at least can grow half a size up.

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Added on September 19, 2010, 10:54 pm
This afternoon went NT* to fight fs with Buaya, videoed quite a few good matches.
Currently keeping these ML-size FS-es: Ramen, Aso, Tarsus, Greem, Spring, Akuma and Daimon.


Nirvana Chop(bottom) vs Ice(top)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df3q5B19lso

Akuma(left) vs Boxer(right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxCcVbxG3E

Tarsus(right) vs Ice(left)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAxiwBd5upY

Spring(top) vs Zoro(bottom)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk7qbBi28EI

Aso(top) vs IpMan(bottom)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAR_08vtfNE

Greem(right) vs Naga(left)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2pPmx0XHYM

Greem(left) vs Boxer(right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5khM69F8TU

Greem(left) vs Zoro(right)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ghImiQJ6U

Aso vs Buaya's Chopster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmUoO6Jr-n8

Daimon(right) vs Ice(left)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8if1qq31NVc

This post has been edited by Urahinuk: Nov 16 2010, 12:37 AM

Good FS fight videos.
I've posted comments on youtube.

pretty interesting note. crickets are quite nutritious feed for fs i guess. i'll see test it on my own fs also.
u have a nice size category standard here. how do u match it up to mm in body length?


great fights.
seems like quite a number of chopster u guys have. IPman, Naga chopsters?

pretty interesting note. crickets are quite nutritious feed for fs i guess. i'll see test it on my own fs also.

Yes, feeding crickets is indeed a good method, also saving the effort to everytime catch insects for the fs, just one packet of crickets costing at S$2, can last you for 2-3weeks time.

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u have a nice size category standard here. how do u match it up to mm in body length?

Well.. as for the body length in terms of mm, we dont have a corresponding complete checklist. All these while, most of the fs we are keeping are at least SL and above, so we mostly look into the L cat, not really for the S cat and M cat. For these 2 categories we merely judge the size thru experience.
A fs of ML size should be at least 7mm long, even some fs are 7mm long but if their arms are not long enough, they will be classified in the SL rank. And a true L-size must be at least 7.5mm long with very long arms. Well.. an Ideal KingKong size fs should be 8mm long, 3mm for head width with super long and thick arms i guess, but till now haven't seen a live one yet.

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great fights.
seems like quite a number of chopster u guys have. IPman, Naga chopsters?

Yes most of Buaya's fs are chopsters or partial chops...

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This post has been edited by Urahinuk: Sep 21 2010, 01:52 AM

This spider's pedipalps are so long they look like an extra pair of shorter front legs!
Red skeleton spider
This is a cute looking one:
A spider called Evarcha

This post has been edited by jong71: Sep 23 2010, 08:19 AM

Viciria?
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/s...andibularis.htm
haha!... i challenge u to find the male of this species. i think this is the female of the unknown elusive species i'm keeping...

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Added on September 23, 2010, 1:30 amu can get pinheads at ur lfs meh?

nice. wah..that means the blue fs male u got is quite ok in size. did u try to mate it with the big female?

This post has been edited by mindstorm: Sep 23 2010, 01:30 AM

Should be a viciria according to HK Tang:

U could be right. i caught a spider very similiar to your elusive species in the same "shakedown" batch.
This time i used a semi-transparent, white plastic box/basin bought at the supermarket.
Here's the video
Mindstorm's elusive species...
Evarcha, hyllus, pancorius all look very much alike to me. Guess i'm no expert, haha......
Anyway , here are 2 more caught on the same day:
Big belly with a touch of the blues
Spotty brown and white

This post has been edited by jong71: Sep 23 2010, 10:41 AM

Hey spider experts,

I need your help in identifying this spider that i caught running around in my house. Its bigger than ur average house spider and it has a white line on the top of its back (the line extends from the face to the butt).

Anybody know what spider this is?

thanks!