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Invert room pictures

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  • 02-15-2006, 01:03 PM
    Schlyne
    Invert room pictures
    Now that you've seen the snake room...here's a few shots of the invert room...in progress. I need to move a few of the T's around.

    Tarantulas

    slings and some sub adults
    http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/4140/slings.jpg

    My P. subfusca...the only T species I've got that needs to be kept cool
    http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/8...osition3hi.jpg

    mostly adults
    http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/9...tulashelf1.jpg

    Scorpions 1 (green tub is the feeder roach colony)
    http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/7940/scorps7fi.jpg

    Scorpions 2 (with a couple of T containers in the background)
    http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/8306/scorps2.jpg
  • 02-15-2006, 01:10 PM
    Shelby
    Re: Invert room pictures
    I see some lovely molts in that last pic. ;)

    Very impressive. Is your invert room heated, or do yours do well at room temps? I keep my two in the snake room which is around 80 degrees..
  • 02-15-2006, 01:14 PM
    Smulkin
    Re: Invert room pictures
    AWESOME

    I meant to ask you how the roach colony was going. Still the dub's?

    What temperature req's does the subfusca have?

    Are you now officially a T-keeper with some herps? hehehe

    Love the setup and yes I am marginally jealous of some of the species you keep. What's your prize T?
  • 02-15-2006, 05:42 PM
    Schlyne
    Re: Invert room pictures
    I have been a T keeper with some herps for quite a while now, I'd say. The T's have outnumbered the herps since maybe marchish? of last year.

    My T's do well at room temperatures (which is around 70).

    The scorpions are all heated though.

    P. subfusca does well if it stays under 70, probably no lower than 50ish. With it being right in the windowsill there, it stays in the 60's. It's a mountane species.

    Prize t's...hm...

    I have several I suppose. My favorite T is still the P. subfusca.

    In no special order:

    Poecilotheria miranda
    Poecilotheria subfucsa
    Metriopelma sp. "blue femur"
    Cyriocosmus elegans
    Hapolpelma sp. "costale"

    Those 5 are probably the ones I had the hardest time getting and/or paid the most for. The last time P. miranda was in the hobby, it was about 5 years ago. C. elegans came into the hobby recently, and it's price has dropped, but it's still in pretty high demand. Not every T has a heart shaped mark on it's abdomen and grows to be about 2" max :) I wouldn't have Haploplema sp. "costale" if I didn't talk to Bruce and Bill of the Therphasoid Breeding Project at the swap all the time. They are the only people I know of to have breed that species.

    I've really started getting into the dwarf T's and they're a bit harder to find in the US.

    I have some beauties in my collection, if they'd ever come out :P

    The roach colony is still only the dubia. They've been doing very very well, I've sold off about 100 of my colony and I've had no problems trying to find the sizes I need to feed my T's. Since some unforunate nematode losses, I have stopped feeding my T's crickets and primarily feed from the roach colony.
  • 02-19-2006, 01:20 PM
    recycling goddess
    Re: Invert room pictures
    very nice. i have just gotten into t's.

    they sure are pretty to look at... when you can see them LOL
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