Acanthoscurria

Acanthoscurria geniculata

Well, I actually did not intend to buy this species of spider. What i bought was Brachypelma klaasi, but after a few molts it started to get white knees and funny red hairs.... definitely not a klaasi spiderling! Thanks to the one who sold me this animal and who now does not even respond to my e-mails anymore. First when I realized that it was the wrong species I thought that he had made a mistake and tried to clarify the matter, but you can't talk to someone who does not want to talk to you. He probably has a good reason not to *frown*. A good lesson for the future: I won't buy animals from him anymore and I will make sure that none of my friends do.

But I should stop complaining. That's the risk you are taking when you buy animals through the internet from people you don't know. And besides the fact that for a geniculata (actually, I don't even know for certain if it really is geniculata!) the animals were a little expensive, they are beautiful spiders. They grow at an amazing rate and now they are already taking large crickets.

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Thanks to the fact that Acanthoscurria geniculata is not shy at all and is out of its hiding place quite often, I got a chance to photograph a complete molting. The whole process takes about 2 hours and I took a series of photos that show the different stages of the spider shedding its old skin.

Click here to see the pictures of a molting spider.

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