QUOTE(viper88 @ Feb 8 2009, 11:35 AM)
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.
not chop... juz normal FS ...
i forced the other spider to fight with it.. that is the end result...
now my 1st king is very handicap since the accident .. i had lost a good fighter...
yesterday went spider hunting with a few kakis around SG...
we caught about 10 males altogether...
but there was non good fights...
about 90 % caught r small ones...
i guessed the theory that SG FS r smaller & not as fierce as Malaysia FS r true...
how i wish im now in Mersing !
Viper, any updates from u ?
Added on February 8, 2009, 2:20 pmQUOTE(mindstorm @ Jan 29 2008, 02:18 PM)
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.htmsorry 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 ?
This post has been edited by kopPao: Feb 8 2009, 02:20 PM