Today is my last off days for CNY, tomorrow have to go back work liao..   So this morning i go catch some FS to fight 
Caught mostly small size male FS only and 2 of them are partial chop. Let them fight and one of the smaller chop get eaten by another small chop FS but slightly bigger. 
There's also one male FS maybe too desperate want to try mate with another male FS..

Here's the pics.




Have added today FS videos in youtube. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIMCcGRgc4&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevVU-VFWAA&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIty76GgKg&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_BDIBR9ugU...re=channel_page

Mindstorm, you want the small chop FS?

u r really Great at getting Good fighters,
especially "Kop Pao" ...
my Respect to u !  

btw, your chop means kop pao m i right ?
charge and chop w/o "Dancing" ...

the following day, i accidentally injured my 1st king while placing back the cover...
i Hate myself to Death ...........

Wa.. u accidentally broke ur 1st king arm and leg..  
If your spider very active/agile... you have to be very careful when closing the case. You can try to blow some hot air using ur mouth to hold the FS from running before close it. Your FS case is a see thru type so can time when to close the case better.

Your FS is a chop?
Eat other normal FS or chop FS?

FS normally just fight and chase its opponent away.
If fight against other weak chop, normal FS sometimes will kill the chop FS to protect itself.
If chop FS.. they alwys hunger for blood and treat its opponent as food.

On Sunday before I met viper i also went to scout for spiders.

I was in kepong and went to a nearby forest. Still outside in civilized area before reaching the forest, I found the most crippled male I ever caught in my life from the wild..five legs only. Wonder how it lost so many legs. 2 from left, and one from right. May have been attacked by ants. When I drop him, he doesn't bother climbing up his own web, he just drop all the way.

First pic - caught him in this plants. Viper: Are these daun sirih leaves you were talking about?
Second pic - Wonder how he still manage to survive.
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After walking about 15-20min I came to the forest edge. I saw quite suitable plants here and there and open a few nests. I saw a few tiny small young. Got la. So I search somemore. Now I am about 10 meters into the forest path when I opened a nest, I saw a funny looking spider I never seen before. It is quite small, all black, thin, but have long arms. Its tail move up and down slowly while walking. Quite difficult to catch. It is restless and wouldn't keep still once out in the open. I tried to catch it, but it kept jumping from one leave to another... until it came near another nest... I couldnt resist opening that nest... wooooh... I saw a THIANIA...BUT NOT BHAMOENSIS. Another species but same genus. This one was big but is old cuz of its movement. It is a female because there is a broken old egg nest in its nest. From the big you can see that this thiania full grown head size is much bigger than our normal fighting spiders.  Apparently the small ones I saw earlier which i thot was thiania bhamoensis were not but another type. I tried to find for about another hour for a male specimen but in vain. I caught a few younger ones and took them home to rear them.

left-jungle plants, right - jungle path
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new thiania - smaller specimen
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new thiania - bigger specimen(old female)
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Bro2 trying to mate the old female - notice the head size difference
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The small black spider which brought me to the new thiania species...itself maybe a thiania. Notice the sharp spikes on its arms. Our normal fighting spider also got...but barely visible.
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After searching for so long and cannot find the male specimen, i thot maybe they live up the trees! I tried shaking violently a couple of small trees to see wheather any would drop down...nope, none.
Second pic shows a how secure their nest can be. Look at the number of webs they create to secure the two leaves. But this is a dried up leave of a empty nest i found already fallen on the ground.
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I believe the male specimen looks like this(pic taken by a macro photographer)
http://www.apbworks.co.nz/ft_06.htm

Thanks for the posts.  It was an enjoyable trip and not as hot as the last time.
The failure to catch any chop this time around is a good indication of how hard it is to find a chop.  It's so much easier to convert them than to find them in the wild.

The first king was initially named Ampang4.  I'm not very creative with names.  I'm having a hard time coming up with the two I have right now, including Baby (house spider I've kept for 8 months now, still a baby) and the one the Hyllus I brought back on this trip.  Hopefully I can get the Hyllus to adulthood, although I think it's a different species (not H. diardi) than Drag0nette's so it will be smaller.

Here are some of my pics to contribute to the thread.
1.  Hantu Kuning (Evarcha flavocincta) female.
2.  Hantu Kuning male eating small fighting spider male.
3.  Unidentified jumper eating a big bluebottle fly.

Nolar, its average size only, not big size. The FS is about Hope size. Its abit old ady coz its arms bend in most of the time while walking but still show angry face when face it opponent.  Check out the videos i've uploaded today.

I've released the FS near my house with a female FS 2gether yesterday. This morning when i go jogging, the male FS is still there in between the big leaves.
I also found some male FS with female FS in nest nearby my housing area .. all mostly average size only.
I hope the FS at my housing area will breed and multiply more. 

How many FS you have currently?
Have new FS videos?

It's what we call Golden spider.  Also known as Mangrove jumper (Ligurra Latidens).  You're describing a male L. latidens.
They're the best fighters I know of, pound for pound, but they can't swim.

http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/s...ra_latidens.htm

Today is my last off days for CNY, tomorrow have to go back work liao..   So this morning i go catch some FS to fight 
Caught mostly small size male FS only and 2 of them are partial chop. Let them fight and one of the smaller chop get eaten by another small chop FS but slightly bigger. 
There's also one male FS maybe too desperate want to try mate with another male FS..

Here's the pics.




Have added today FS videos in youtube. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIMCcGRgc4&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevVU-VFWAA&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIty76GgKg&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_BDIBR9ugU...re=channel_page

Mindstorm, you want the small chop FS?

my 1st king eating another male...

the following day, i accidentally injured my 1st king while placing back the cover...
i Hate myself to Death ...........

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Added on February 8, 2009, 5:16 am

it was in lots of pain, when i accidentally broke his hands and legs...
blood could be seen ...

i feel horrible...

U didnt change since ur fishingkaki forum huh? U also posted a pic showing ur firstking then eating another male....

But i like...very nice close up. Wat camera u using?

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Added on February 9, 2009, 2:45 am

Aiyoyo... 
That type of container u using very dangerous...hard to open and hard to close... as u are closing, the spider may run to the side and try to slide its arms to escape in between the base and the cover... and "kiaaappp".... become no arm bandit...

Wah...u so fast got kaki? Who are these kaki? Do they know got this fs forum? Ask them come share their fs and fs fight here la... i like to see them.

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Added on February 8, 2009, 2:20 pm
sorry to dig up old post...
any1 caught this Male species b4 ?

when i was Spider hunting yesterday with my kakis, old of them keep telling me he wanted to catch "lam pao"
i keep asking him whats that, he told me is FS, but other colour..
it has blue colour on both his hands and legs...
also better and larger than the normal FS ...

i went home to do research, and stumble upon this post...

i have been playing FS for quite sometime, nver ever came across such a colour of FS ...
any1 care to share his experience on this "colour" of FS ?

The small partial chop FS i caught previously now seems like back to normal fighting style. Not sure it will become fierce chop later after killed the other smaller chop FS earlier.
I still keeping the small FS. Mindstorm u want the small FS? if not i'll released it back . I'll be off next week Thursday.

You still try to breed FS?

Yes, we (Mindstorm & I) got one last year (Cam, the Cameron Highland male) and another a few weeks ago at Lookout point, a female.  I don't have any pictures though.  Here's the youtube link for Cam.
Cam

It's a different species of Thiania.  Wikipedia says there are 17 species of Thiania.  It's sufficiently different from T. bhamoensis that they may not even recognize each other.  The female was chased away by a male that I had without a mating dance.  Viper's giant Bu was yet another species but we couldn't find any of those.  I doubt they are better fighters though.

Some pics of my new setup for the sub-adult Hyllus (moulted yesterday).

Hello people, I stop playing FS already because busy at school. Anyway did I show u that black and yellow FS I caught before? Should be a thiania right?

Yes, we (Mindstorm & I) got one last year (Cam, the Cameron Highland male) and another a few weeks ago at Lookout point, a female.  I don't have any pictures though.  Here's the youtube link for Cam.
Cam

It's a different species of Thiania.  Wikipedia says there are 17 species of Thiania.  It's sufficiently different from T. bhamoensis that they may not even recognize each other.  The female was chased away by a male that I had without a mating dance.  Viper's giant Bu was yet another species but we couldn't find any of those.  I doubt they are better fighters though.

Some pics of my new setup for the sub-adult Hyllus (moulted yesterday).