#lividus

[ari-fire-arts]

MY SPIDERSONA BUT I ACTUALLY MADE A REF FOR THEM WOOOOO please ask me about them they're so silly

[trifectum]

[nymphenberger]

I don't remember if I shared this , but just in case, I commissioned art from @AzulMidnight at Twitter a long time ago and still love them.

[winter-hime]

lividus | large demolished | built 02.20.2020

[disease]

COBALT BLUE TARANTULA (CYRIOPAGOPUS LIVIDUS)

[drafthearse]

Purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), Cabo de Palos, Spain

[dashie-tarantulas]

For the first time in months she’s out, I know the webbing and water makes the pictures blurry but she is an old world fossorial so we do daily misting and water her bedding so there is water residue everywhere BUT LOOK 💙🤲🏼

[inuringly]

LIVIDUS! HE PERFORMS YOUR DREAMS! LIVIDUS! HE IS YOUR DREAMS! LIVIDUS! HE'S... really distracted, where'd the spotlight go? OH RIGHT. LIVIDUS! HE'S--a really loud former Broadway KAITO unit. A character I've had for awhile I wanted to slightly redesign/draw again; he's a Kaito with show puppetry and Greed-based powers. The more spotlight he gets, the stronger he becomes! He was once bought by a very rich child, but he outgrew him and he ended up out of business. By then, the NuBroadway Scene in Global Synthetics had already replaced him with Better Models, leaving him out of work. I could ramble for hours, but it's been too long since I drew a Kaito, so here is one of mine!

[insectomoe]

Went to the pet store, thinking about buying their big "Curly hair" to get used to bigger Ts only to learn it got sold...

Then glancing over the only other tarantula.. "Vietnamese blue Tarantula" (Most likely Cyriopagopus lividus).... No employees knowing anything about the specific care, nor know the difference between a new world and an old world....... Imagine if a kid would have bought it.

Long story short, I bought the poor dehydrated and deformed old world tarantula 🥴

We'll see with a molt if that abdomen lump will disappear!

I'm so glad they went straight for the water and then eventually found home in the burrow! They even dug a little!

[ask-cyantist]

"So yer telling me dude's been down there for days?? That blows."

" 'Kay then, where do I put down this living marine specimen, genuinely packed from Earth? ....Oh, this one's called the Paracentrotus lividus... Yes, it's alive. Sooo is the table alright, or...?"

@software-bugs-b-gon

[Rapid clanking sounds from the nearby vent-]

[Your hand suddenly feels a lot lighter.]

Cyan: "Oh my stars- a real live kina urchin!! I heard these are a delicacy when cooked, though they're overpopulated- I can't believe there's one here! Its colors are beautiful, so many rows of ambulatory spines! I'll need to look up what it eats- the storage container is also a bit small, could use an expanded-"

[Cyan stops short, realizing in this moment exactly what she's done, and why she's suddenly holding a jar. That doesn't belong to her.]

Cyan: "Oh @%$# I'm so sorry- I don't know what came over me. I got really excited hearing what you said... do you mind if I borrow this, for study? You can say no, of course, but I'll give it back when I'm done!"

[ari-fire-arts]

Spidersona hourssss

[trifectum]

Lividus and Vonosso - the Demonic Duo

[huramuna]

cyriopagopus lividus - helaena targaryen.

The cobalt blue tarantula is a fossorial species and spends nearly all of its time in deep burrows of its own construction. The venom of the tarantula is not enough to kill a human, but it can badly sting them and be extremely painful. The venom contains glutamic acid, at 0.97% concentration. Histamine and adenosine were detected at 0.14% and 0.10% with the polyamine spermine noted in trace amounts at 0.002% 

Modern AU Helaena with Dreamfyre, who is a cobalt blue tarantula.

art by me. procreate & clipstudio paint, 5 hrs (a LOT of editing)

[geeekzz]

Custom OC based on real tarantula Lividus. Waiting to be adopted 💙

[auckie]

To everyone calling the stupid trapdoor cute. The larger ones are so intimidating and intense. I’m not really afraid of many animals, save bears. We feed lividus and wandering spiders and giant ass centipedes, we don’t carry very venomous scorpions anymore, but we used to, and may again soon! Which I’m really looking forward to. Keeping medically significant species isn’t something I’m personally into, but I can appreciate how interesting it is just to see these creatures live in a captive setting.

Regardless. Feeding the armored trap doors is so fucking scary. They play dead, if they’re not in their burrow, and they’re these huge black things with what looks like plate armoring on their abdomen, which is odd for a spider this size, and they have huuuge chelicera and fangs, they’re HEAVY. They’re actually hard. Tarantulas are all soft and fuzzy and a bit squishy if you manage to somehow touch their abdomens. Delicate beasts. The trapdoors are literally fucking dungeon monsters, and since they came through the mail, when rehousing them, we had to regularly check that they were okay! So you see this big stupid beast in a death curl and think oh shit it died! And you gently poke it with a paint brush, or blow on it, or squirt it with some mist thinking ‘let’s see what happened’ or ‘maybe it’s dehydrated from the trip’. NO! Zero to sixty in a millisecond and you have to shut the lid to its enclosure without trapping one of its legs, watch it do fifty somersaults and physically shake the container while you wait for it to chill the fuck out. So then you come to anticipate this during feeding, and ideally they make their stupid little burrows what with the tripwires. It’s cute and cool yeah whatever. But since we’re trying to ‘feed expeditiously’ as my boss always puts it, and they’re huge and might take multiple roaches, you gotta lift the door sometimes. If you’re lucky, the roach runs in because it’s stupid and dark hole. If you’re not, even expecting the monster to emerge, it still scares the absolute shit out of you. I sweat every time I deal with them. Tena and pokies and even the Thai funnel webs who have a very dangerous bite and are also just as fast (but so much more relaxed) don’t faze me, I mean sure the centipedes sometimes escape and make everyone stand up alarmed or the wandering spiders make all the dudes talk about the whole permanent erection thing, but these guys have the element of looking like a toy Halloween decoration and moving as fast as an old world T. They’re so cool. But so scary. And I don’t even think their bite is *that* bad compared to some of the hot shit we carry. But I don’t care! but the little one I filmed was very cute and stupid I will give them that. I don’t think I could own one tho. They can’t climb smooth surfaces but that wont stop them from doing 28 backflips if you walk past their tank and I just don’t really feel like associating myself with something that does that, that isn’t at least fuzzy and funny and pink toed. Or even the sand spiders we got. They’re pretty dangerous. But they’re so goofy. Speaking of which I will post a video of one here to make up for a paragraph of text