My 3 x Poecilotheria rufliata (Redslate Ornamental) living in a sweet jar. Each about 4" living communally since egg sac, All matured as males and produced 1 successful sac.
They were always touching each other and moving around different parts of the enclosure. The sweet jar is clearer than the images show as it reflects lots of light but after a while I rehoused them into an 12x12x18 Exo-Terra.




I put the whole sweet jar into their furnished Exo and waited.
Here's a pic from above prior to putting them in.


In went the sweet jar and I left them to it.



Over a 2 week period I occassionally saw 1 leave the sweet jar and roam but never more than 1


Over the following week the largest decided to move out and take up residence in the tube. The occasional roam gave some good opportunities for pix.



The 2nd moved out a few days later but the last one needed most of the furnishing removed and a good soaked soil to convince it to abandon the sweet jar. The first night they seemed to be in seperated places - one round the back of the tubes the other 2 in different tubes. However they soon found each other again and had a group hug.

Ive not photographed all my communities but here are some from previous years:

P. miranda
The Departure Lounge


The arrivals



The reunion


The new home


Lunch is served




Here's my P. subfusca community, 5 of them living together. These were purchased as about 1" slings and went on to father 1 sac.
You'll have to forgive the quality of the pix, the sweet jars aren't the easiest to take pix through.




All my pokie enclosures are set up with vermiculite/peat substrate with a top layer of tropical woodlice/springtails colony in peat/woodchips. Temperatures range from 70-85 depending on time of day/season. Maintained in off-dry environment with plenty of food available.

Here's a pic of a P. ornata, one of four in my Pokie community of 4, approx 2"


And here's my enclosure for my smaller P. ornata, they're rather well hidden, 4 of them less than 1".



4 x P. ornata with sizes ranging from 2-4".


30 x P. ornata was my biggest project (until I tried the P. striata sac with mum) but I gradually reduced it:

5 x P. subfusca moved in to the enclosure formely housing the rufilata. Now these are so communal its untrue although they seem to be a little more skittish than other pokies, perhaps because the temperatures are warmer than they should be.





Here's my community of 23 x P. regalis from Ray Gabriel:

Cool Pics !!!

Wow really nice communal's you have there!!! just started on my first one with three P.Striata.