Tarantulas and Spiders

Omg my pulchra is the never molting spider. I want to look in and see a nice dark black like that.

Good pics!

Skulls, do the lividiums ALWAYS stay pet holes? My little guy runs down into his tunnel anytime i try and take off the cap of the vial

I dont mind but sometime he better come out when hes older so i can see his sexyness lol

Her sexiness :p

Did you just get a lividum? I must have missed that.

Mine has a nice burrow with a tunnel web on top. If I go into the room and stay quite, I'll spot it hanging out of the web.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/17/8uqa8a2a.jpg

Now as it gets older, I'm not sure.
To be on the safe side, I would just plan on seeing her feet. :p

It's like my bigger irminia. So pretty but its so rare to see her. Just her feet at times or her butt.

Think of it as an awesome treat when you do catch them out.

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Her sexiness :p

Did you just get a lividum? I must have missed that.

Mine has a nice burrow with a tunnel web on top. If I go into the room and stay quite, I'll spot it hanging out of the web.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/17/8uqa8a2a.jpg

Now as it gets older, I'm not sure.
To be on the safe side, I would just plan on seeing her feet. :p

It's like my bigger irminia. So pretty but its so rare to see her. Just her feet at times or her butt.

Think of it as an awesome treat when you do catch them out.

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Yea hes still tiny like .5"

Dang! I'll have to setup my enclosures so i can see them the best even if they're tryna hide ;)

So how do you clean the tank when the spider is in the web??

I've kept some captive spiders in little tanks when I was a youngun, and they always made little web nests in the corners of the cage, etc.

Often times they just sat there and died in their web; other ones got stuck in their own web and died that way...does this happen with Tarantulas??

Mike, I started a burrow in the front left. But it webs the burrow so its still hard to see.

The only real cage cleaning you need to do is removing old food bits and changing water. Unless you have a crazy outbreak of mold.

Oh yea that's how mine is now. Tunnels mostly webbed up. Oh well, i still like him as long as he eats and grows! :p

Meph- i havent had to clean any of mine yet. I read somewhere on arachnoboards that someone didn't have to change substrate in 10+ years for some of his spiders.

They don't poop and mess it up??

(again, sorry for the dumb questions...I'd just rather you guys answer them rather than a random internet site because I know you're reliable)

The do poo but its not a crazy amount.
Now some arboreal Ts will dirty up the sides, Avics have great aim :o
I'll just wipe it down.

If they go in the substrate, I'm guessing it just gets broke down over time. Bigger spiders, you can just spot clean them.
I do have a burrower with a screen top. She has shot it out the top about a foot away.

My first Rose Hair was on the same substrate for 15 years or so.

When they are done with their meal. They will ball it up and sometimes even place it in the same spot each time. A long pair of tweezers come in handy.

Yea my meridionalis is the biggest i have and i think she usually pooped in the same spot away from her burrow against the wall. I noticed it when i transferred her today. You also have to remember that the slings convert as much food as they can into growth. The faster they get bigger, the better their chances of survival (in the wild). A long pair of tweezers are great for feeding and any maintenance. Get a paint brush too for when you need to move them. The bristles are gentle but still firm enough to encourage them to go where you want them to. Well... Usually... As you can see from my pic earlier, sometimes they like to make things difficult haha

Sorry for your loss Mike! hopefully this will cheer you up a little.

little vagans in his new home!
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...psbde575a0.jpg

I went to pick up this girl and ended up getting a 2nd T just to lose it to my 12 year old daughter. but any way heres my new Chaco female thats probably gravid!
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps93f9df31.jpg

I made a deal to get one of my buddies MF red rumps. While we were talking about some stuff I told my daughter to pick us out a nice red rump from the 6 he had to choose from. She picked the one that I probably would have picked. Well on the way to the car she hugged me and thanked me for buying her first T. She was so excited to get it home and decorate the cage and she insisted on transferring it herself. Well I didnt have the heart to explain that I hadnt intended it for her but for the business so she now has her own Red Rump female. She has already informed me that when my male matures she will do a 50/50 split on the slings with me. lol here's her first go around at decorating a T enclosure.
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps17a41d32.jpg
The head is her Justin Beiber Doll she tore apart to put in the cage.

While I was gone the wife decided that my juvie B. smithi needed an enclosure upgrade and since I neglected to care for it properly she would just "have to take it from me". So now she has my Red Knee. :(
http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/...ps85c5d8f4.jpg

I didnt take any pics but holy day of molts! The wife feed the slings 2 days ago and swears there wasnt any then. I went to check on everyone tonight and all of my vagans, most of my albos, 1 of my versi, a couple of my goliath pink toes, 3 pumpkin patches, and most of my A. geniculata all molted in the last 2 days.

thats why i don't have a wife or kids they'll take all your stuff from you lmao!
Your daughter is awesome. I can't think of many 12y/o girls that hate justin bieber. Give her a high five and buy her a Slayer shirt. You're doing that parenting thing right.

Glad to see the vagans is settling in, i like the stegosaurus skeleton haha!

Damon, I love the weird eclectic crap in your enclosures. The doll parts are almost creepy, I like it.

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Damon, I love the weird eclectic crap in your enclosures. The doll parts are almost creepy, I like it.

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My daughter wants to do the obt enclosure when its ready to be transferred. She wants to hang her Barbie heads by their hair from the top and a couple torsos on the floor. She wants me to buy fake blood or red paint so decorate the body parts first. I on the other hand just picked up a squidward figure to put in my skeletons enclosure to go with sponge bobs house. I'm currently looking for a mushroom hide to use so I can put some smurfs in my curly hairs tank.

I love it!
Your daughter is awesome.

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I have such a rush right now! I just successfully mated my A. chalcodes!!! I went in to do my nightly rounds and the male was drumming away on the divider in the tank and the female was tapping away on the substrate. I had tried earlier this evening while my buddy was here to help me and to teach me how to do it. The male had no interest at that time. So I took the gamble and did it all by myself! I did it and didnt lose anyone! so friggin Stoked right now! My hearts pounding like I just chugged a BFC monster! lol. Anyone who clicks thanks on this post in the next 24 hours and is willing to pay shipping can have an az blonde sling from this potential sac free! Providing all goes well and I end up with healthy slings in a few months!

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I have such a rush right now! I just successfully mated my A. chalcodes!!! I went in to do my nightly rounds and the male was drumming away on the divider in the tank and the female was tapping away on the substrate. I had tried earlier this evening while my buddy was here to help me and to teach me how to do it. The male had no interest at that time. So I took the gamble and did it all by myself! I did it and didnt lose anyone! so friggin Stoked right now! My hearts pounding like I just chugged a BFC monster! lol. Anyone who clicks thanks on this post in the next 24 hours and is willing to pay shipping can have an az blonde sling from this potential sac free! Providing all goes well and I end up with healthy slings in a few months!

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Well look at your night! That would be sweet to watch, I watched it few times on you tube

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Well look at your night! That would be sweet to watch, I watched it few times on you tube

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Honestly Scary as all hell in person! I've watched videos too and didn't phase me. however it was my T's on the line and even though I know the male dont have a lot of time with me I really didnt want to lose him! So Happy I didnt let him get taken cuz trust me she tried!

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Honestly Scary as all hell in person! I've watched videos too and didn't phase me. however it was my T's on the line and even though I know the male dont have a lot of time with me I really didnt want to lose him! So Happy I didnt let him get taken cuz trust me she tried!

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Haha what a thank you the males get for supplying a fun time! Nice that you got him out safe!! An I'm sure he wants more,what male wouldn't lol

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Thats wicked awesome damon, i'm happy for you! I hope everything goes well. Post pics of how you build your incubator, im curious.

Hope she lays before she molts! Did you get to see him make sperm webs?
Can't wait until I get these versi and irminia together.

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Hope she lays before she molts! Did you get to see him make sperm webs?
Can't wait until I get these versi and irminia together.

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No I didn't get to see him do it but I did see the aftermath. He had them destroyed. I'd find piles of torn up webbing in the mornings. I was told that's what it was. I've never been through this process before.

Congrats on the breeding; hopefully all goes well

From previous posts, you incubate spider eggs too?? The moms aren't good enough??

That's so awesome!! Congrats! That would be scary, good job not losing him.

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Congrats on the breeding; hopefully all goes well

From previous posts, you incubate spider eggs too?? The moms aren't good enough??

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From my understanding most people leave the sac with the mom for about a month then remove it. Take the eggs out of the sac and finsh them in an incubator. Its to improve the # of survivors I think.

It probably cuts down on the number of baby spiders escaping and infesting your house too.

Could you imagine a house being infested with full grown LPs lol? Or like OBTs?

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If you use the one inch vents instead of air holes then the babies can't really escape.

Very true. Better ventilation too.

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lol well i'm hoping to go into my room some day and find an adult red knee or pumpkin patch hanging out. had 3 of the red knees escape and a PP bolted on me and I never found him so..... i've always got crickets running loose and the meal worms and super worms dont have lids on the containers so its very well possible for them to make it for a while. lol

Yay!! The versicolor who was only fed crickets finally took her first roach!! She's only accepted mealworms until now. Hooray!

My H. mac sure is a psycho about food. I handed it a roach on tweezers and it grabbed it and then was flailing it's legs and freaking out because I didn't let go fast enough.

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I really like the black fuzzy one :P I'd love to own like that but I need to somehow get over my fear of spiders first... lol

I saw my little A. metallica go down and grab a roach yesterday :)

I have an OBT and a darlingi in the house. Both of which can live it warm dry conditions :o

That's awesome Damon! I have some pics in this thread on how I kept the hentzi when they were EWLs and 1i
Don't have them on my phone anymore.

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I really like the black fuzzy one :P I'd love to own like that but I need to somehow get over my fear of spiders first... lol

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The fear turns in fascination pretty quick. They are such amazing little animals.

Some pics: Not included: G. rosea, G. pulchripes, younger A. versicolor, and P. murinus

Charlotte the versicolor enjoying her first roach http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/6yverutu.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/a5uputa6.jpg

P. metallica http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/egazy6ag.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/yha3azy7.jpg His home, a bugshack by Ken the Bug Guy. I love it http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/7aqe3uje.jpg
Little obsidian skull for decoration http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/pe9apete.jpg

A. geniculata and her home. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/bygy2ure.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/yha5ujeb.jpg

GBB http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/apenuge7.jpg

B. boehmei http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/ydeqetaz.jpg

These guys are starting to look like tarantulas and not just specks!
B. smithi http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/yby4areh.jpg
And
Nhandu chromatus http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/y7u3ady7.jpg

H. maculata http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/4are7usu.jpg
Rehoming H. mac: http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/9azuta5a.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/va6age5e.jpg

C. marshalli was tough to get a shot of http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/18/uhe7udub.jpg

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The fear turns in fascination pretty quick. They are such amazing little animals.

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Oh boy does it ever! :P

Good pics slaw!!
Very nice collection you have there :)

Thanks!

I guess I should've said "rehousing" H. mac, I'm definitely keeping him lol.

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I knew what you meant :p

So I've been watching some Tarantula videos and reading over this thread quite a bit. Is there any T. you guys would suggest for a first time owner trying to get over the fear of spiders? haha

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So I've been watching some Tarantula videos and reading over this thread quite a bit. Is there any T. you guys would suggest for a first time owner trying to get over the fear of spiders? haha

Something new world, terrestrial, docile, and slow moving. My number 1 suggestion is a chaco golden knee (G. pulchripes) because they fit all those criteria, are inexpensive, hardy, and eat well. I and a lot of others do not recommend handling your T, it can be dangerous for the spider if it falls. They make better lookin' at pets.

Edit: I also recommend getting it as a smaller sling and raising it. Knowing it's too small to bite you and getting used to it may help a lot. With my first I started out...not scared but weary? I guess, of spiders. Petting her little butt with a paint brush and seeing her not react, and then my finger once I felt comfortable, really got me totally comfortable with them. I was always fascinated by them and caught lots as a kid, just touching them freaked me out. Now I *can* handle, I just don't for their safety.

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Get something from the brachypelma or grammostola genus. :gj:

I have a B. boehmei and a G. pulchra. Right now they're both still pretty small without any adult colors really. But as adults they'll be wicked awesome looking. The pulchras are velvet black colored and the boehmei will have sweet red legs with a black body. If you like the color red then go for a brachypelma.

Thanks for the helpful advice guys!
Is the B. boehmei anything like the G. pulchripes in terms of a "beginner spider" I really like the red on it! The gold colors on the other is awesome to tho!

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I have such a rush right now! I just successfully mated my A. chalcodes!!! I went in to do my nightly rounds and the male was drumming away on the divider in the tank and the female was tapping away on the substrate. I had tried earlier this evening while my buddy was here to help me and to teach me how to do it. The male had no interest at that time. So I took the gamble and did it all by myself! I did it and didnt lose anyone! so friggin Stoked right now! My hearts pounding like I just chugged a BFC monster! lol. Anyone who clicks thanks on this post in the next 24 hours and is willing to pay shipping can have an az blonde sling from this potential sac free! Providing all goes well and I end up with healthy slings in a few months!

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So what will the little guys look like?? And as they mature??

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Thanks for the helpful advice guys!
Is the B. boehmei anything like the G. pulchripes in terms of a "beginner spider" I really like the red on it! The gold colors on the other is awesome to tho!

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Lol I meant to "quote," not "thank". Pretty much anything in those genus' Mike suggested are good beginners, the boehmei are a bit more "spazzy" though, skittish and not as calm. They aren't likely to bite but they flick hairs. There are quite a few good beginner species. Look up green bottle blue/ C. cyaneopubescens, they're a good beginner species and GORGEOUS, but also not quite as calm. My main reason for suggesting the G. pulchripes is that they are very cheap in addition to all the perfect "beginner spider qualities." I figure a lot of ppl may not want to buy an expensive first spider.

G. rosea are also very cheap and can be a good beginner but they sometimes go on looooong fasts, I had one go 2 years. So I'm a bit less likely to recommend them.

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I 2nd G. pulchripes
They are a great first T or a great addition to any collection. They grow a little bit quicker so you can get more experience as they do.
Something like a B. smithi or G. rosea is going to grow much slower.




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LP molted
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/19/u7avaqut.jpg

The never molting G. pulchra
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/19/magavuzy.jpg

I love OBTs!!
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/19/re3epuva.jpg

Who wants some spiders? I'll make some deals to move a few :)


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Can anybody take a guess of the sex of this P. Metallica?http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/19/enamyryz.jpg

I'm no good at sexing them that way.

Very pretty spider!


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It looks pretty blue and i think i see a flap so i'd say female...?

Some pokies you can tell by their markings on the carapace too i think.

I second female. Go post that pic on AB hobo will tell ya! Idk if he's always right but he always gives an answer. Lol he seems to know what he's talking about though.