Heteropoda maxima - video

cacoseraph · Heteropoda maxima - video

http://www.wat.tv/video/heteropoda-maxima-1azrc_1avs5_.html

how crazy is that?

giant, and a looker, too

cacoseraph

i wouldn't necessarily want to try to keep these... but man, if they weren't too hot (i have no idea about the venom, but heteropoda isn't generally that bad, i think) they would be freaking SWEET to play with!

i bet, if they are serious rock livers like it appears in the vid, that they would have fairly burly and sharply curved foot claws and could possibly make little bleeding wounds just from crawling on a body... especially in places with wimpy skin like the inside of the elbows and what not

would love to find out Very Happy

Herpetologyfrk

Are they avalible to the hobby? I wouldn't mind keeping these at all.

ftorres

Hello ALl,

Unfortunately they are not yet in the hobby.

I would not mind having a few of them either.

francisco

Bastian Drolshagen

hi,
a similar species was in the hobby here for some time (dunno if it truely was H. maxima - there has never been a proper ID). Apparently nobody managed to breed them.

@caco: You´re probably right, many troglodytic species have elongated tarsalclaws with reduced amount of teeth and also elongated legs. At some species even the eyes are reduced.

EDIT: There´s also a video on the net that shows P. Jäger crawling around in the cave trying to find the species again (successfully!).