To make it as easy as possible for the moderators to move as many pictures as possible to the permanent gallery please consider the following tips:

1. Spell out both the genus and species name. Including the common name is good as well if you have it handy.

2. Post one picture per post. This makes it easy for us to simply move the post and give it a minor edit saving us a great deal of time.

3. If you know the sex include it after the name in the form 'x.x'. For example a female B. smithi would appear as:

'Brachypelma smithi Mexican Red Knee 0.1'

4. Photos for effect are wonderful but remember to include as much of the specimen in focus as possible. For example with scorpions the aculeus on the tail is often diagnostic.
Ideally, we're looking for one representative photo per sex per species so if you have many shots, submit the best one instead of them all. Or you could submit them all and let
us pick.

5. If your photo disappears, it could well be in the permanent gallery. If not, we're likely conserving server space.

6. By submitting a photo your ownership/copyright of the work and your granting permission to the ATS for use in the Gallery is required.

7. Use an image hosting service such as Photobucket to upload your image, then include a url in your post here instead of the image itself.
This saves greatly on our server space and keeps costs to members down.

Thank you for all the submissions. I'll be doing my best to get them caught up and our gallery off to a good start. Keep 'em coming!

Cheers.

Hi Darrin,
Many of the scorpion species I keep do not have common names yet as they are new to the US hobby and the Europeans never use a common name. So what am I to do?

Hello Brian,

Don't worry about a common name in those cases.

I have a suggestion:

For species that have had males females and juveniles/slings pictures submitted and accepted for the gallery, could these be added into one thread, so it's easier for people to find these pictures?

Mori

and, by not reading, I totally screwed up and tried posting about a dozen pictures to the galleries... suppose I need to go back and re-do each of those

I agree with Mori, Darrin. What can we do about that?
Don't forget that with many species there are different color morphs, too....

I think we should have ALL photos of a species, regardless of color variety, under one thread/heading so that we can keep them all together. Something like BugGuide.net would be nice.

The Tarantula Gallery has been recently divided into threads by genera.
The Scorpion Gallery will soon follow.

Remember folks, all these things take time and Rome was not built in a day.

Currently photos not meeting the submission suggestions with respect to text are being edited by our moderation staff and put in the Galleries.

Darrin,
For those of us that are relative newcomers. What is the complete sex ID nomenclature? Your example show a female BRSMI as 0.1. What is the male designation? 1.0? I am new and wish to learn.
Thank you,
Steve

the number sex thing
0.0.0 = males.females.unknowns
so ya one male is 1.0.0

Thanks Mike.

That clears it up.

What if I find wrong IDed species in the Gallery?

If it's scorpions, contact me and I will see it gets to the right person if it's not an American species, otherwise I'll get it.

If it's tarantulas, you can contact nearly everyone else, especially Board Members.

Thanks!

It is about this spider:

http://atshq.org/boards/viewtopic.php?p=4560&p4560


There is no such species, Haplopelma aureostriatum. There is Haplopelma albostriatum that have the stripe markings on the legs but It dont look like that in color and abomen pattern. There is (or more was) Haplopelma aureopilosum (Now Ornithoctonus aureotibialis) but it looks noting like that at all.
I have no idea on the ID of the spider, as it could be anything. But I would lable it as a Haplopelma sp. as it looks like one though...

Hi,

I'm new and would like to share some of my spider photos.

One of the posting tips reads "2. Post one picture per post. This makes it easy for us to simply move the post and give it a minor edit saving us a great deal of time." but later in the thread there is discussion about grouping all photos of the same species into a single thread.

If I have more than one photo of the same species, would it be okay to post in a single post? I realise another posting tip suggests one photo is sufficient, but these are sufficiently different to each other, and, as the posting tips also state - this gives the moderators a choice.

Secondly, I will just post links because I have these photos already published on my own website ... but I have included a watermark of my website address in the lower right corner of each image. The forum rules allow website addresses in signatures, but is it okay if it's on the image itself?

Cheers ... and looking forward to some inspirational browsing of others' photos here!

Chris.

Chris,

Sure, you can put several photos into a post, but if you want the pics to end up in our gallery, then one per post is best.

No worries on the rest, if something is askew we'll let ya know.

Welcome to the site!

Christian

As long as the photos in the post are of the same individual (maybe full body photo and a detail or something like that) than multiple photos in the same post are great! However, the photos are essentially the same and one photo is clearly the best of the bunch, than the redundant photos might be removed as deemed necessary.

And if possible, disabling your signature when posting gallery submissions sure makes things easier than editing them out later (especially if your submitting a bunch).

Just un-check the "Show your signature" option under the "Submit reply" button. Not mandatory, but boy oh boy does it help!

Thanks for all the kick butt submissions and keep 'em coming!

Lindsey