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My darling girls, my obsession......

Adult female Tapinauchenius purpureus
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Subadult female Tapinauchenius sp....suspected to be plumipes
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Subadult female Tapinauchenius cupreus, picture taken the day she arrived.
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Adult female Tapinauchenius plumipes
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Adult female Tapinauchenius latipes
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Adult female Tapinauchenius gigas
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And the same lady breeding. Her water was clean before I introduced the male! He took a nosedive in her water dish and chose to stay there a good 10 minutes. Silly spider!
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One of my Tapinauchenius elenae slings. Cute little buggers!
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No pictures yet of my subadult female elenae or of the two undescribed Tapinauchenius females yet, but I'll get some soon!
 
latrodectusfan said:
Good stuff Leanne.
Feel free to mail them out to me anytime;)
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Hahahahahahahaha! Oh you're a funny one Jason! Dwayne keeps telling me the same thing, and I tell him he can have them when I die. Actually, even that's not the truth.....Sky's been promised both of my latipes if anything happens to me, but I just might be selfish and have them buried with me!

Unless Scott wants them.......... :raspberry
 
Great pics

Taps ...Man it has been some time since I had some taps...over eight years.!! Purpureus and gigas and plumipes I had and bred all three...been thinking about getting them again as I am getting back into arboreals.
Everything I have is mostly terrestrial with the exception of a few odd avics.

So what happened with the breeding of the gigas??? was it productive ??
 
Yep, the Taps make up about 1/4 of my collection (I have 25 or 26 Taps now). I've been in love ever since I bought a little cupreus sling from Art in the summer of 03. I'm almost positive I have the largest and most extensive collection of this genus in the US. Many of these ladies are ready for love, just need to locate some males!

The gigas made a sac, but it wasn't any good. That was right around the time SSW and Jake H. in Florida had good sacs of that species.

The adult purpureus I just bought from John Morris back in August of this year. Hung out with him and his wife for about 3 hours just talking spiders. Super guy! But since you go to the Taylor show, you already know that! I also have a subadult female that's going to be looking for a boyfriend soon also.
 
If you got the purpurea her in our good old cold state it is probably a direct decendent from the 200 or so I sold here in Michigan about 9 years ago.

And yes John is a great guy , we have done many trades over the years and breeding loans
 
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