Hi All

Happy Happy and best wishes and all that.......

Just thought I'd share.
Molted on New Year's Day.

Got her ( I hope she is a she ) from Ruan as a likkle baby.

She really is becoming very pretty, imo

Wow, you really captured the purple in the spider.
I'm going to sex the spider as male though. noob

Thanks Jake. All my other, smaller ornata's are more brown in color. This one really stands out

Here is a male to be.



I managed to get some purple to come out in my spider, only a small amount though.

Here are my other two, sorry for the angles/quality.....

Both are smaller, about 5 cm while the one in the first post is about 12 cm.
I got them from different people.

Is the purple colouring normal, as all the other pics I have seen are more brownish, like the one you posted ?

Thanks

That is the interesting thing, the purple colour is there but can only be seen at certain angles and light.

Example with my photos.

I had a stunning immature male that had a stunning purple colour to its carapace. I only saw the purple in the sun when I was taking photos.

I Have not gone into it or did research to see if the purple Is there from a small age or as the spider get bigger and ready to mature.