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:eyetearss :eyetearss :eyetearss :eyetearss 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 |
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!! :D :D |
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:eek: Thank goodness I didn't see it but especially Barbi who is terrified. |
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. |
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 ! :eyetearss :notworthy :confuse8: :doh34: :hmmm33: :confuse2: ....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..... ! :D |
p.s.....they are beside the computer....right next to me ! :eyetearss :eyetearss :eyetearss |
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 !!! |
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! |
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. :sidesplt: |
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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...... :note: "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: :2omg: :confuse2: :questione :scratchhe :thinking: |
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 :eek: .....I don't think he'll be getting another friend.... |
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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 ! :) :animal-pa Debra x x x x |
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.... |
This is amazing...and I am very impressed. A little freaked out, but impressed!!! |
OK...will look forward to seeing a pic ! It probably wouldn't eat the pinky - it also depends on the species and size....you are feeding it right....you could try a locust too. Make sure it has a water bowl with spring water in it, it needs water, and also must have it for a successful moult. Keep substrate dry and check it has no uneaten food or poo or you will get mites on it which will kill it. Never disturb it during a moult - it will die of shock. I will be able to tell you more once I've seen a pic....sounds as though it is an adult now if the moulting has slowed down. It is more than likely a Grammestola Rosea, or a Pink Toe, or Red Knee - Kenny will give you the proper names.... Have a look on his T forum too ! ;) |
1 Attachment(s) I thought I'd just do it tonight, my son says it's nothing rare just a Rose Hair....it's hard to judge scale but it's body is about 4 inches long w/o adding the legs.... |
I just know I am going to have nightmares tonight with spiders crawling all over me!!!! All I can saw is Wow!! |
i dont really like bugs but I do wanna see the pics lol |
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The Aureostriatas are nice - they are mine(just half grown females) - Kenny got them for me as I like the VERY GENTLE Grammostolas ! A lot of people will handle those, even kids, and they are timid beasties with not a bad bite, if they EVER do which is rare. She is a very big beautiful female anyway ! (Large abdomen - males have much smaller one) She is fully grown and mature ! She will go without food for long periods, although you do get the hungry ones. Our Fluffy never eats - only rarely, but the red colour form is a greedy so and so. They are a fab spider to have, though you do get the snobs who say oh it's just a Rosea, trying to sound big, as they have the more dangerous Asians. Don't listen to them - you can be sure that they started off with a Grammy themselves and just don't admit it ! My hubby is onto more species now, but he still likes Fluffy ! He is planning a mate for her too ! She is smaller than yours. Yours looks quite big. She will live about 15 years ! ;) I will still get Kenny to answer in a few hours.:D Luv Debra x x x Grammy lover, hee hee....nice, slow, ...and gentle ! p.s What's her name ? |
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Also, you should give it a piece of Cork Bark (Microwave and cool it too)available from the pet shop - half a tube, or the whole tube, to give it somewhere to hide. You can add plastic plants for decoration if you want. I will get my hubby to add anything else..... Also, you are right to clean out periodically, but if you keep it clean, like removing poo and old food, it should be ok for quiet a while. ;) He will tell you anytghing else in the morning, or check out The Tarantula Store....google it, and he is a moderator on there....Highlander (Kenny) |
Debra, You've got bigger coconuts than I do. No way in H*LL I'd be able to live in your house. One thing that I am absolutely terrified of is spiders and if they're big ones like the ones you got...you'll see nothing but elbows and a$$holes. My butt is hauling a$$ outta there!:eek: :eek: :eek: A couple of weeks ago, the FIL is talking to my son about getting a tarantula for a pet. I told him if he brought that nasty $hit in my house, I'd be setting it on fire. Call PETA on me, I don't care...but no way in h*ll is one going to share a house with me!:eek: |
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If he is wanting to get a first Tarantula, best start of with a Grammostola Rosea, or Red colour form, as they are gentle, slow and hardy.....and virtually never bite - only if very mistreated, and are not deadly. After being used to that, then any Grammostola, or a Pink Toe, Mexican Red Knee....avoid the Asian species....and join a forum ! ;) |
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Growing up, my grandmother had a HUGE pet tarantula named Annie. If I remember correctly, she was a dark brown (or was it black) and had like orange tips on her legs. Annie lived to an old age. The first tarantula my dad brought home was when I was in high school. I'd look at it (just a field tarantula) but I never messed with it...that was daddy's job! I guess you can say that my fear is a phobia...totally irrational. I can't even look at pictures of them without my heart beating wildly and getting light headed. Shoot, talking about them give me the eeby-jeebies! |
Here come the pics then......ENJOY ! 4 Attachment(s) Right then here we go...quite a few pics to post, so PLEEEEEEAAAAAASE don't post until I say "FINISHED" at the end of them all, thanks ! All of these had to be taken just now, because Kenny went and scrubbed all his pics, silly boy....so here goes ! There will be a few posts in a row now.....ENJOY !!!! :rolleyes: Debra 1. Grammostola Rosea (Fluffy) ....same as yours jp4m2 ! 2. same as above, but rarer red colour form Kenny says you get a common grey colour form as well. 3. :eyetearss ....THIS IS THE "FEATURE" IN MY LIVINGROOM BESIDE THE COMPUTER !!! :eek: (The doors are opened or you couldn't see it with the camera flash on the glass - doors are usually shut, lol) 4 Kenny the mad Spider man ! Remember, don't post yet....more pics coming.... |
And More...... 4 Attachment(s) 1. Brachypelma Smithy 2. Brachypelma Baugarteni 3. Brachypelma Amelia 4. same as 3 All Mexican ! Nice chappies ! :D Remember no posting yet....more to come, lol...... |
And More...... !!! 4 Attachment(s) 1. Accanthoscuria geniculata 2. Lasiodora parahybana...grows the size of a dinner plate ! This is a baby ! 3. Avicularia metallica 4. Nhaundu chromatus Remember - no post yet....one more post from me.....;) |
Last pics.... 2 Attachment(s) ....and one more from me...... 1. My painting of number 2 pic spider which won a competition, hee hee:D 2. The spider I painted ! Brachypelma Baumgarteni Hope all of you enjoyed those pics of NICE hairy Tarantulas....Kenny has loads more, and Asians and Africans too, but his passion is Mexican Tarantulas ! :animal-pa Debra FINISHED ! |
They are beautiful! So is your pic. You are very talented. I see webs in one of the cages. I always thought they were webless. Is that something special on a certain species? Why would they need webs, anyway? They have shear size and scariness on their side, lol? |
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