hi
i  am a kid that is interested in fs and brought fs back to life again
in my school.
in my school i am spider king
my best fs, Vortex had won 6 spiders so far.
Vortex is male.

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Added on July 30, 2010, 1:49 pmthank god part 2 is open coz i have 1million questions to ask!1

can u post some pics of your fs??
my Vortex is stong!!

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Added on August 4, 2010, 7:39 pmby the way, where u live??

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Added on August 4, 2010, 7:40 pmcoz i wanna take that challenge!!

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Added on August 4, 2010, 7:42 pm
dun worry! i am a daring boy.
btw, nice macro shot of your fs in your avatar!

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Added on August 4, 2010, 7:50 pmheres pics of my King Spider: Vortex   

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Added on August 4, 2010, 7:51 pmsorry intenet slow. post pics tmrw buy

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Added on August 4, 2010, 7:53 pm bye

at the moment i'm keeping a pair of hyllus semi.
Got them to mate 2 days ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_xodh0M_fg

Today was one of the most disheartening day for me. In the evening at about 6, i went looking for hyllus in a nearby park and unexpectedly found another hyllus male...large one too. i saw its head just jutting out of a dried leave attached to the underside of a green leaf, pretty close to the ground. but damn, its nest was situated in such a way that it was difficult to encircle it with a large plastic bag which i had due to the leaf branches. and the ground was filled with large leaf litter and also it was situated just beside a slope, with even deeper leaf litter below. it took me half an hour to slowly cut away the leaves blocking my view with scissors and when i tried to slowly put a large plastic bag beneath the nest, it jumped and i lost it in the leaf litter. it was 7.30pm then and i waited almost until dark and still tried to search the litter but in vain. i can attest that the hyllus Semicupreus male is the most difficult jumper i ever tried to find and catch.
All my gear and experience came to nil.

Finding itself is almost an imposibility. I found the one i'm having now by chance when i saw it walking up a lily leaf when i was going to my car at my workplace. other than that, i have only seen it only 3 other times.
1) once as a boy(while still in mps, primary school, i remember) on a tree trunk stump in my grandma's garden. i ran to the kitchen to get a bag, but came back and can't find it again.
2) caught one small one. the one that drank milk in one of my clips
3) i saw one hanging on a tread from a tree at my workplace carpark. a large one. but when it dropped to the ground, it very rapidly jumped towards a very thick hedge and dissappear into it. but because there were people walking up and down that place, sitting nearby, and i was wearing office wear, i didn't want to pursue it.

Catching it is very difficult because

1. it is highly sensitive, just a slight movement of its nest and i saw it gearing to pounch out.
There was no way i could have just cut the leave of its nest and just lift it up like wat we do for fs.
2. it is a master of eluding... going out of view or the other side of a leaf/branch rapidly whenever it sense a movement/shadow
3. its color makes it a master of camouflage among dried leaves/branches
4. it has a powerful jump and would jump consecutively till out of sight/reach(and probably jumping and quickly crawling under the leaf litter to other parts from where it landed)
5. it doesn't appear soon after it jumps into leaf litter, staying put of a long period of time probably due to its sensitive nature.

if only i have a bottle of water then, maybe it could have helped. Damn. otherwise we would be able to see a hyllus semicupreus male vs male square off.

Nice spider u have there.

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Added on August 6, 2010, 11:06 amDurian size look quite big.
Vincent81 have several FS right? Get the same size to fight will be good. 

haha! i don't think Vortex will travel 400km to challenge ur Durian la...
Viper57 is from Kepong area, in malaysia. I think the closest kaki here to our new friend here is Viper88.

i have no idea actually. he is staying in another town from me. my hometown. besides i don't know him.
he is one of the younger ones from a murai fighting group. most of them quite senior, but every weekend without fail, sure got grouping and sure got murai fights. To them, any fight must involve $$, otherwise no point fighting, including fs. Maybe we got kaki here also got place bets but secretive ler...hehe. but its ok with me.
Anyway, i haven't been back to my hometown for quite a while now, so i have no idea of wat's happening there now. but if i have the time, i'll be happy to go check them out.

i doubt so. the female looks very female to me. besides that head pattern is quite common.
i found that head pattern alone is not a very reliable way to determine a fs because
1. it can look different at different angles
2. it can change over time
3. many fs have similar head patterns

it is only be useful if it is sufficiently different between 2 fs that we want to fight. if you would to expose a fs to a large group of other fs, i think judging from head pattern alone, it would be able difficult to pick it out. usually we would rely on other characteristics too, like abdomen size, overall size, overall lightness darkness etc

how do you check the age of an fs??

and what is teeth grinding?

from one of your videos in yotube.

btw, the new Vortex died.    
i feel so bad for smashing him  
the hole fighting stage fell down and smashed him  

next time i must be extra careful in handling fs.

well, i need to get ANOTHER replacement for Vortex.(which will also be named Vortex )

yeah.

well just like what Urahinuk said, "time will heal the pain"......

now i am keeping a female, Strawberry and 2 males, Onejaw and Foxtail.

i thought of breeding them.  but how do i get them to mate?? 

holycow. where did u catch that?