Tarantulas and Spiders

I've only got 4 Brachypelma vagans that started out as 10 black dots with legs that I got from a friend who breeds them. I'm not that much into spiders but these are fun.

Carlson, you may be interested in a MN group called Minnverts. It's a Minnesota group for arachnid enthusiasts. It's a fairly new group and they don't have a web site but they do have a Yahoo group. They meet every so often in one of the members homes to talk spider talk.

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/MinnVerts/

Mark your on mn verts! I just joined that yahoo group lol

No, not me. My friend April is a member. She breeds a lot of spiders. She used to breed ball pythons but has pretty much moved away from them to concentrate on her spiders and blood pythons.

She may have posted on my first tread there lol, soon as i joined their like few of us breed so when you want more! Lol I do want more my bank acount doesn't agree! At least way cheaper than a good ball

I had to post here too because my snake thread doesn't have much traffic.

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Little babies!

Other exciting news coming soon :D

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..."bread" ...like you mean two girls from the People of Walmart site, right??? :rofl:

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AHHHH no! Lol

That book is pretty good. For $14 its packed full of info. It gets really in depth and sciencey in some parts too. I usually have to reread stuff to get it, but i had to reread some of it multiple times lol.

P. cambridgei just molted :)
About time!

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Could my golden have gotten lost in her hole lol noob question but a serious one

No, she knows what she is doing. At that size - hiding is happy.

K had to ask lol ill toss in a dead roach tomorrow see how it goes

Just peek in every night after lights out. You'll see her sooner or later :p

I've been trying to catch her hoping too soon!

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I had to post here too because my snake thread doesn't have much traffic.

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awwwwww!!!! babies!!! Soooo cute!!! I want to hug n kiss them :P

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I had to post here too because my snake thread doesn't have much traffic.

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CARPETS!!! Very nice. I hope to get a few hatchlings myself in a few weeks...

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I have another small clutch of them that should be ready next weekend.

Good luck Mark!

Thanks, the eggs aren't actually mine though, I'm incubating them for a friend who found them while taking care of a pair of carpets for a friend of hers and was surprised by eggs. Started with about 20+ eggs and now have less then a dozen left. I'm hoping at least a few hatch.

Wow yeah that would be a surprise.

This was on the ceiling in the kitchen lol:
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Those are pretty cool. I'm not sure but it might be a nursery web spider. I suck at IDing. :p

Here is the right thread.

Getting ready for the mailman tomorrow. :)

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Mailman bringing you something fun!?

Do any of you guys save your molts? Im wondering if anybody here would be willing to save me a nice molt from a equally sized male and female so that I could use them as references when sexing, and also to show people at work...I know its sounds kinda creepy to be asking for stuff like that :P

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hes getting ready to ship out some cages Nick....those look very familiar to me ;)

He puts together nice cages so their lucky people then haha. I just never know rich gets all the fun brought to his door lol

Im sure its nonstop 8-legged party time at Rich's lol

Just caught my B. boehmi as it flipped over :D most likely I'll be able to tell of it's male or female at this point, assuming I stay awake long enough to witness it finishing and the skin doesn't dry up completely by tomorrow morning.

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Do any of you guys save your molts? Im wondering if anybody here would be willing to save me a nice molt from a equally sized male and female so that I could use them as references when sexing, and also to show people at work...I know its sounds kinda creepy to be asking for stuff like that :P

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Sometimes I keep my larger sheds. I only have females though, any males I've sexed are still slings/juvies. There are pics online though that compare zoomed in.

I can't wait till mine get bigger! What do you keep a.avic slings in? Dude has them for real cheap 2i.. I want one not sure if I should get one at moment not sure housing

Wow I sat down and passed out last night.

My A. metallica is in the middle
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The enclosures are for me this time :)
I wish I had some going out :p
I'll post pics once everything comes in and I know everyone is ok.

I have a huge jar of molts but they are no good at this point.
If and when I get a good molt to sex, I can take detailed macro photos for you.

Then you can have a side by side you can show them.

I bet she is gravid.
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Is that bout the size needed for 2i?

That or smaller. Like the one on the left.

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Remember, they are quick!! They can be out and up a wall in no time. They can also leap :)

Snakeman, any word on the molt yet?

Good luck!

Package #1
Avicularia versicolor
Male / Female pair. :)
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Package #2
Trigoniulus macropygus
Flameleg Millipedes :)
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A pair is always nice! The centipedes look cool, have never held one to my knowledge ha

Millipedes :p
I won't hold a centipede. Haha.

Once they mature, they might be my first pairing. :)

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Millipedes :p
I won't hold a centipede. Haha.

Once they mature, they might be my first pairing. :)

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Ha both Pedes are kinda creepy, too many legs an I was told one of them bites really hard.
That would be sweet, it's cool watching the vids of them being paird they tap lol

Well i don't see the dead roach any more. Guessing the golden has some how pulled it into the hide.. I have no clue where the exit hole is its a small space an I can't find one.

Sweet!
So she is just hiding and that's normal for her size.

She can be as sneaky as she wants inside of the cube. An keeps eating. Ten days ill drop another in

Nice packages :) Those millipedes do look cool. Youtube has ruined centipedes for me, I've watched enough videos that I'm convinced one could take on a grown man if it wanted to.
I got a package yesterday. I found my two incher.

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Does it look ok? I was wondering if the little fella was kind of thin, but it doesn't look wrinkly or anything. Also, I had been looking at lots of pictures of really fat ones. It's a lively little thing- is in a different spot every time I go check in, and ate a small dubia. It was cute. The dubia ran under him to cuddle and he just sat there, then while I was wondering how I was going to get it before it burrowed, he just casually reached down and picked it up. It really likes to climb, too. I have the substrate 3 inches from the top, a little higher on the hide end. Is that high enough? Everything I read said 1.5-2 legspans, but I just want to make sure.

Thanks :)

Sounds like you got her enclosure set up right. Is the substrate damp at all? If so, maybe let half of it dry out and get the other side damp. Then you can slowly start moving her over to a dry substrate over the next couple of molts.

Aw does look a big skinny. Do you know her last molt? They will be on the skinny side after a molt.

You are feeding dubia so it should be no time before she is nice and plump :)

Congrats!

I tried to get it as dry as possible, but I'll make sure half of it isn't. I did put a water bowl on either side because it took 2 days to get here from the seller and I thought maybe that's why she was skinny. They didn't know when the last molt was. Do you think a regular feeding schedule will plump her up? Oh, and I have Turkistans, too. Is either roach more fatty than the other?

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I tried to get it as dry as possible, but I'll make sure half of it isn't. I did put a water bowl on either side because it took 2 days to get here from the seller and I thought maybe that's why she was skinny. They didn't know when the last molt was. Do you think a regular feeding schedule will plump her up? Oh, and I have Turkistans, too. Is either roach more fatty than the other?

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I don't really know anything about Turkistans. Feed her a meal about as big as her abdomen once a week and she will plump up really quick. I'm guessing both roaches will be great for her!

Just got the cages done!
2 for the versicolor and 1 going to my P. cambridgei that just molted. Just have to give her a few more days.

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Male
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Female
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Just going to let these guys wonder out on their own.

And millipedes in their new set up.
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:)

Those cages look sharp, skulls

Thanks mike :D