Very cool, now, have you seen any Holothele incei "gold" come out of any sacks from this communal? I find it interesting that they are a PROVEN colour form of H. incei, but I have no idea if any have appeared in SA

So far it is only one sack, Hoping for more and hoping the other 2 outside ladies will drop soon.

I would love to have the other species of Holothele appear from one sack. :laugh:

As far as I know we only have H. sanguiniceps and H. incei and i think there is a 3rd species but not sure of the name or if it is the right species I'm thinking about.

No, I'm not talking about a separate species, merely a Gold Colour form of H. incei. There is a third species, but forget the name

No man, sorry, no gold incei of yet.
Has there been threads and information about other people getting the "gold" colour form out of H.incei sack?
Do you maybe have some links?

www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?...t-Gold-quot-eggsac-D

www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?...incei-quot-gold-quot

Thats all I could find with a quick search. Apparently its a gene that causes it, kinda like Ball Python Morphs

Morning All.

A bit of a shocked, surprised, stumped and sad update.

Update: 22/03/13 17:45

I had plans to stay home and work on my big design and rehouse some spiders.
But my plans never seem to stand firm, we went to out to family instead, left the house at 10:30

I came home to get some things round about 17:45.
I got distracted and ended up checking on my communal. whistle2
When I noticed 3 slings sitting outside the entrance to the burrow.
So I looked inside the burrow to see if I could see any more slings.

Not only were there more slings, there was A glob of slings, sitting inside the burrow.
At first glance I thought they were just parking off, but when I saw 2 of the spiders abdomens in the air I knew they had caught something and were busy feeding off it.





Which I have seen this "glob" before.
5 H.incei slings feeding on one roach.



Never the less, I was so dam curious to see what they had caught.
So I got the tweezers out and hooked the prey item.

Well here comes the shocked part!! :dad
Never in my wildest dreams did I think, I would be pulling a tarantula out of a burrow that had become lunch.
(Gave the slings the name, spiders of the corn :evil: )

As the spider is lying on the web in the first photo is how it came out.



They were feeding on the legs segments attached to the body and the mouth part and some of the under carriage.(photo's not so good, camera was not focusing so nicely)



The spider of the corn slings were looking for their meal.
You can see some brown liquid on the slings mouth part





I had to leave as the visitors were waiting for me, as they wanted to head home.
So I left the spider where it was.
I left the house just a bit after 18:00

Ended up watching, I bought a Zoo (again) and having coffee and talking..
On returning home at 19:54. I found this.

This is the stumped part A:
As you can see the slings were feeding/drinking off the webs.
I highly doubt that slings could finish off a whole spider in 2 hours and not leave legs and some signs of a larger spider behind. I'm wondering if either a another spider took the body to feed on or the roaches, but again the roaches would of left signs behind of a body.



Stamped part B:
I'm also wondering if the slings ganged up on the larger spider and took him down.
I'm sure the larger spider would not have stood still for the slings to kill him, he would of ran away.
Or if he had died or was busy dying. I highly doubt that as he was alive in the morning before I left.
I did not see bite marks on the larger spider, as I did look for that.

I'm also not sure if it was the same spider that was sharing the burrow with the two slings, I can't see him since I pulled the victim out.
Also don't think the spider was moulting, as he had molted out recently, with he's molt standing by the back entrance.

Then I got the Idea to see if the spiders would carry away "meet" that is just lying on the ground, so I gave them some ox heart.
The only creatures that actually ate the ox heart was the roaches.
The slings tried some, but when it did not move they left it.







As I said, I'm stumped and shocked. And would love to know what happen to the spider's body, and what was the cause of he's death?