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found this little fella in the bathroom, no abdominal markins at all, often get false widows (non dangerous) in my live food by accident...

yukk ---- this one is interesting looking !! :
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- def not a cute looking spider like the huntsman
cool pic though have you found out what type it is

Now that is an excelent example of a spider,really gross,lol.
No just kidding anything from nature is cool and sometimes interesting.
Very well presented pic vawn,thanks for that bit of forum content,shame the others were not so good at posting pics of stuff.

i saw it again this morning n saw that the legs and carapice are more brown and there is a hint of a couple grey spots on the abdomen so rekon it's likely to be false widow n he's a little aggressive too, already tried to munch me but his fangs are tiny cuz he's only a weener, gonna try to box him up though! suposed to be only a little toxic but i wonder if not dangerous only cuz usually docile

, you can see the fangs actually if you look closely maybe we will find out the type of spider by those markings that you have described

gettin surer it's a false widow

yeh i saw in your first coment that you thought it might be a false widower -- now we know cool
def different looking to any of the spiders that i have seen before .
. so do you have lethal spiders where you are?. like here in oz we have the funnel web and that is seriously very nasty! we had one in a pool once hell scarey looking -

i kept a funnel web once but no pix, not the kinda spid you wanna muk around with!!
there's nothing here venomous at all, false widow is as bad as it gets n thats cuz of us lot importin live crickets n all in little safe enclosures, we get all sorts like that! i also had some deadly scorps, they came back in a friends suitcase, only babies but waaay too venomous, like 2o mins n no hospital = bye bye. they ended up dyin cuz i wouldn't help them moult, didn't wanna risk touchin them, they were very cute though.
ooh wanna see my emp. scorp pic, i keep him in a nice happy tank terrarium n he's gettin to be a juvenile now, i had him from since he was a little wormy grub!
there is a big cat debate on the go, are they real or no, in the 70's people chucked out their pet pumas n lynxs cuz of a change in liscence laws, so there could be something dangerous out there...

yeh vawn the funnel web is def very exteme in its features -------no mistaking one once you have identified they even look lethal ! yukk

if you see a scorpion that would be cool and to check out your pics all good

dont get me started on irresponsible people with their animals especially with cats !! not kept in check !! they become feral and kill all our amazing birds and wildlife a huge problem here in oz

some of the feral cats that i have seen in the country are massive . we have a friend that was actaully attacked by one in his garage a few years back !
they heard a comotion going on , wENT to investigate and when opening the side door there was this ferel cat hanging in the corner and .. when he tried to remove the thing it flew at him a pitch fork was used to protect himself !!! it was hugee

i will leave the final out come for it to your imagination.. was a very bad experience for him. in ALL ways ! -----

seeing a puma /lynx creeping about the bush would be hell scarey. .

this is chin (pandinus imperator)





and my latest pic of dora thou i seem to think most aussies dont like spiders!!



and finally, to keep it reptile (n i no some people have seem em already!!) just cuz he's too cute my royal/ball python

oops forgot this ain't the reptile section!! oh well

love the pic on dora she looks very sweet..
how long have you had her for ? and how long is she expected to live ?
interesting looking scorpion ! not sure if i would feel comfortable with one of those hanging about by the looks of it - lol
thanx for sharing the pics
if you ever get to oz vawn i will have to take you snorkelling so you can also see our amazing sea life

yeah deff, used to snorkel with my dad but there was nothin to see!
dora; lasiodora parahybana, the males live for a year odd, the females for 30. i had her for 4 years but she was already mature wen i got her, the emperor scorp i had from a baby, his mum was my first herp pet but she died now, his sting is about as sore as a honey bee

30 years !!! really ?? geez that is along time i had noo idea they had such a life span --very cool ------life time pet really for you then
by that comment on the scorpion i take it you have already had a strike-- hmmm i'll be right , i would rather dora anyday--- :

: excellent that you shared snorkelling with your dad i guess over your way it would be almost dry suit conditions - .

i think i would be heading off to the red sea !.

both my children snorkel -- and have dived ----- the grew up in the ocean hey if you ever think of doing a dive course over your way the bsac course is the way to go .

i wanna get a boat, it ain't that cold over here!! though we were in winter wetsuits in the middle of summer!! but there's little in the way of marine life unless you go rock poolin, there's all interestin stuff like anenomies n shore crabs
leat it was the emp that done me n not the b.o.s'!! n he was even smaller then stabby bitey stabby stabby n i could n't even feel it n he was gettin relly angry!
i tried to make him a little more aggressive so it would eat properly but it's gonna end up bigger than dora one day

hey vawn
i think dora is just right size for me to handle
seeing any larger spider than that and i would be peaking -lol -- so you have to encourage them to eat ? by the pics i have seen looks like they would devour anything in their path lol..
yeh i love checking out the rock pools and doing low tide walks . . seeing so much variety star fish tube worms and anemones in abundance . we would do this often with the kids , was so educational for them . we once found these spotted eels too they named heckle and jeckle , soo cute they had such personalities . we often went back to see how the were maturing . some of the tropical fish as well, we would collect for our aquarium. .

i got msg from straddie about diving with the manta rays in MAY it is almsot out of season then so heres hoping ! and now i have that underwater camera sorted i hope to maybe get a few pics and will post.

cool
they are really quilck wen they're eatin move like lightnening n hold it there in theis mouths for a while, dora eats locusts

so will are you looking at gettting any more spiders in the future ?

i would like to, maybe next year wen things pic up a bit, some real spiders, another huntsman even, they n the fishing spiders (wolf Family)
are my fave n loadsa fun settin up, we shall wait n see...

fishing spider hmm sounds interesting ! so how large do they get ?
not so sure of the wolf spider they kinda jump at you so a large one doing that would kinda spin me out a little i think
i can imagine setting up house for them would be cool so do the children share this interest with you ?

the giant fishing spider of the amazon, related to british house spiders, the wolf spider, gets about 10cm accross and are very clever with their webs

gotcha on that-- !! i am jsut imagining hiking swimming in there . lol
i read up on the webs facinating . i love watching the spiders in our gardnen spin their webs so articulate