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baby Tarantula parts

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This is the shed skin of my baby chile rose tarantula.
It was quite hard to get as i had only daylight to use plus the structures are quite thick and it was dificult to select the focus point!
First the eye area:
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The area around the mouth:
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A palp joint
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another palp joint, closer to the foot (not the thick black hairs)
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This is the sternum, with a furrow in the middle
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Finally a view of the underside of the carapcae, near the leg joints
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Video of underside

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The fangs were very hard to photograph as they are curved upwards, so i made a video showing them at various focus points.
I extended this to the length of the body:

hope this works!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EEY3T00rC4
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video of foot

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Also I did the same with a foot, which is very thick and dense, impossible to get a flat image:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_vooIlHRQ

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I, for one, probably would never pick a tarantula as a pet, but I know a lot of people have them. The eye section of the shed skin looks very cool. So, your pet spider is named "Pepsi" He sure does like those crickets. :D
I had snakes for awhile and they were fun to feed :D

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You have a tarantula for a pet! :shock:

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beetleman wrote:So, your pet spider is named "Pepsi" He sure does like those crickets. :D
No Pepsi is another Tarantula that belongs to another user of the site.

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Ken Ramos wrote:You have a tarantula for a pet! :shock:
Absolutely! Ive been fascinayed with spiders ever since I was a kid-I used to be known as Boris the Spider by my family when a board game was brought out with that name.
Most of my family still calls me Boris to this day!

Oh I also have a pet House Spider too, a Tegenaria duellica:


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Post by beetleman »

That thing looks huge!!!!!!!
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beetleman wrote:That thing looks huge!!!!!!!
Indeed,nearlyu 3 inches legspan, legs not fully extended, and its not fully grown yet!

I saw one in the shed the other day that was much bigger, and I nearly jumped thru the roof as it was on the back of the door as I was about to exit!
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