R.I.P. John Bobbit

[demandor]

John Bobbit died today.
Not the weiner guy.
John Bobbit was my old male Avicularia Versicolor.
He got his name from the last female that he bred with. She ripped off both his pedipalps (short pair of "legs" that tarantulas use for mating and food handling)
He died from natural causes.
I am drying out his body for preservation and framing, is that strange?
Please contact me if you would like to donate to:

The John Bobbit Memorial Home For Disfigured Male Tarantulas

 

[davo]

thats a neat looking tarantula RIP. how do you dry them out and whatever?

 

[kriztu]

lol! sorry dude, my condolences. really cool looking spider, post pics after the framing. and really cool name bro!

 

[TOM A.]

He got his pedipalps ripped off, thats got to hurt. Sorry for the loss

 

[softturtle]

Sorry to hear that. Versicolor is one of my favorite T's (the only one of mine I can handle without peeing myself). I hope that I get a pair out of my group. It would be fun to breed them. Did yours produce any offspring?

 

[lil_blue]

after his podipolipidi things were gone, probably not

 

[USMCtanker]

ya very cool looking sorry to hear it dired, how did it die

 

[demandor]

Yeah, we got a ton of spiderlings this year at work. I'm starting my own colony w/ 12 1.5" babies. I'll post some pics of the babies, they are very cool and blue stripey.

John Bobbit died of old age, he was about 8 months in to his last molt.

 

[USMCtanker]

how much are spiders like that

 

[DeLgAdO]

John Bobbit died today.
Not the weiner guy.
John Bobbit was my old male Avicularia Versicolor.
He got his name from the last female that he bred with. She ripped off both his pedipalps (short pair of "legs" that tarantulas use for mating and food handling)
He died from natural causes.
I am drying out his body for preservation and framing, is that strange?
Please contact me if you would like to donate to:

The John Bobbit Memorial Home For Disfigured Male Tarantulas

i bet anything he bleed to death