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08-06-2007, 03:32 PM
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| DEBRA'S DORKY YORKIES4 Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Highland Scotland
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|  My hubby Kenny's Tarantulas etc ! Quote:
 Lol....thought I'd share our funny conversation with others ! Kenny has 70 Tarantulas as a "feature" in our livingroom....no nice glass cabinets full of my china....no, that is all packed away, just two huge cabinets holding 70 tanks of TARANTULAS !....people don't visit us anymore !!! No, we don't handle them....but some we do, and the wee ones tend to have a walk about when you try to feed or water them anyway ! Yes we have lethal ones, (Asian) but most are nice and from your neck of the woods, or south from you - hence why my hubby wants to be offered a holiday over there, ha ha, to come back with more of them ! It'a all my fault I took the first one home......and he fell hook line and sinker for them ! Yes he breeds them......he is part of a circle of experts in the world trying to save them from extinction from the Amazon Rain Forest and the other one can't renmember just now, before they chop it all down and ruin their habitat....and yes, we do need to keep them, as they may hold the key to strength (webs) and their venom could save lives...... Debra x x x x Last edited by HighlandYorkies; 08-06-2007 at 03:33 PM. Reason: ......Forgot me coloured writing hee hee | |
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08-06-2007, 03:38 PM
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| Donating YT 1000 Club Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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|  wow! I don't know how you do it!! Spiders (well bugs in general) creep me out. I would not be able to live there! You know I actually fear that somone in my townhouse complex has a tarantula and its going to get out and find its way into my house and I'll get into the shower or something and there will be this MASSIVE spider on my shower curtain or something!!! Im giving myself goosebumps with the thoughts! HAHAHA Post some pics! I want to see your 70 tanks of spiders!! 
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08-06-2007, 03:41 PM
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| Donating YT 5000 Club Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: texas
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| Debra you have to be NUTS. You are the one who started this whole thing with Kenny? Richard took a picture the other day of a big tarantuala outside our house  Thank goodness I didn't see it but especially Barbi who is terrified. |
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08-06-2007, 03:46 PM
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| My Four Sweet Babies Donating Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Jersey near Philadelphia
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| No thank you! LOL  My DH is scared to death of spiders and I'm not fond of them myself. YUCK but I think what you are doing for the species is wonderful. I might not like them, but they need to be preserved.
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08-06-2007, 03:50 PM
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| DEBRA'S DORKY YORKIES4 Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Highland Scotland
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|  Yep...my fault, ooops ! Well how was I to know he'd go and get more and more and more and become a Tarantula forum moderator - so that the week about he is off from nights(starts tomorrow) I can't get on the computer, lol !      ....and have posties scared to come to the house with those boxes of chirping things, and have the house chirping day and night with the Taratulas' food bugs ! Will get him to get pics off disc tomorrow morning and post some....eeeek..... ! |
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08-06-2007, 03:53 PM
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| DEBRA'S DORKY YORKIES4 Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Highland Scotland
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| p.s.....they are beside the computer....right next to me ! |
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08-06-2007, 04:02 PM
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| Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member  | I think that's SO COOL !! I have spider stories and collected them as a kid - I think they're fascinating - I wouldn't want any getting loose that's for sure but I think it's so cool he's helping to keep them from extinction - I want to see pictures !!! |
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08-06-2007, 04:03 PM
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| Donating YT 1000 Club Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Georgia
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| Got two words for ya - H*LL NO! I still have a scar on my right hand from being bitten by brown recluse when I was 9. Spent 3 1/2 weeks in the hospital. That was from a little bitty brown spider that I didn't even see. No way am I purposesly going near one bigger than my hand! I DON'T DO SPIDERS!
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08-06-2007, 04:05 PM
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| Love The Verminator! Donating Member  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: ny
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| I am just having all kinds of images of late night tarantula meetings - planing the great escape. Legs, you grab a ladder. Blackie, you grab a rope. Spike, get the paper for the slide. Harry, grab all the crickets you can carry - we're gonna get hungry before we all make it outside. 
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08-06-2007, 04:15 PM
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| Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Quote:
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08-06-2007, 05:14 PM
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| DEBRA'S DORKY YORKIES4 Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Highland Scotland
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Hillarious ! Pics coming soon in the morning ! Well we did have one go missing - When Kenny is on night-shift keeping all those baddies locked up and singing......  "Please release me let me go....." ...to all his prisoners while he walks the corridors, he gets me to water his beasties, and even feed them sometimes ! I had to tell him that in the only species that you keep in groups, there once was three, and now there's only two ! ....And he had left the door of the tank OPEN ! His mate at work, a Carpenter by trade was putting in our new kitchen in the morning, and he told him there was either a spider loose - a nasy bite-y one with bad venom, or the others have eaten it ! And it likes cool, dark places ! Poor Bob was shi**ing himself just in case he came across it....but as yet, 3 weeks on it is no-where to be seen - probably eaten then ! I HOPE:     Last edited by HighlandYorkies; 08-06-2007 at 05:16 PM. | |
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08-06-2007, 05:15 PM
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| Love my Boys Donating Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| We only have one in our home, it was going to be discarded by someone so we took it, I really didn't expect it to survive long since we had never owned one before, but here we are 5 yrs later & he's still here... A couple of years ago we thought he was lonely and he needed a friend, so we bought one for him...the next day he was all alone again .....I don't think he'll be getting another friend....
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08-06-2007, 05:40 PM
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| DEBRA'S DORKY YORKIES4 Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Highland Scotland
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Do you know what kind of spider it is ? If not, tell me the colour or post a pic. There are very few - almost none - Tarantulas that you can keep together. Even when you mate the correct species together, you feed them as much as they will take - the female especially, and only then introduce them, and have tongs ready, because she will kill him before or deffo after mating unless you get him out of there quick ! You never put different species together to mate - this is completly frowned upon, as it ruins the species left, and we are trying to save them from extinction. I am glad you saved the poor thing, but you should go on my hubby's forum on The Tarantula Store....google it, and ask some questions about your spider. They will help you lots - my hubby is Highlander (Kenny)....even if you haven't much clue, they will teach you loads, and it's people like you who have one already who can pass on info to others. By the way, if it is fully grown....it's a female you have - and are very lucky to have one ! Males only live for a year or two while they moult and mature and grow....after their last shedding into adulthood, they slowly die. You only have a short time to mate them if that is what you are going to do. If your spider is that old I would assume it was a female - but I would love to know what kind, as she may be sought after for breeding if she is rare. Also she could be worth up to $300 if sought after. You can earn very good money(thousands/hundereds per egg sac) for a successful egg sac and spiderlings of rare or popular breeds....but breeding is very hard to achieve. Females can live up to 15 years or more depending on breed.  Well done you for saving your tarantula ! Debra x x x x | |
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08-06-2007, 06:27 PM
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| Love my Boys Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: w/ my boys
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| I know I felt bad for the eaten spider...I know nothing about the care of one but it has been here 5 years..it did molt the first year or so three times but it hasn't done that for a few years...Recently I was told to feed it a pinky mouse but I haven't bought one yet, it's been eating crickets, and a few cicadas and a few large beetles....I'll get a pic tomorrow for you....
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08-06-2007, 06:38 PM
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| Wee Winston Wiggles Donating Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Kewanee, Illinois
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| This is amazing...and I am very impressed. A little freaked out, but impressed!!!
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