Tarantulas and Spiders

One of my favorites. Acanthogonatus francki. Would love to get more of these someday.

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:p

Acanthoscurria geniculata

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A. geniculata are one of the most fun T's to raise! Can't wait until my teeny sling is bigger. I raised one from like a 1" sling to a 3.5" male in a year or so. He was a beast

Sort of a funny picture. My G. rosea is a beast when it comes to food. I gave her a dubia and it ran along the top of her cork bark hide. She decided to flip on her back and go in after it LOL.

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She emerged a few minutes later with her prize.

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G. pulchripes :D.

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Come on and do it!!

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P. cambridgei
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Chilobrachys sp. Sai Yok
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G. pulchripes :D.

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You have an amazing macro lens! I'm super jealous.

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Originally Posted by catzeye21138

You have an amazing macro lens! I'm super jealous.

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Didn't use a macro lens. That was taken with the 18-55mm "kit" lens that came with my camera. I did just get a macro lens though. :D

A. geniculata and A. brocklehusti owners I have a question for ya. I keep mine on coco bark at the moment but I don't think she likes it. She is always up on the side of the container, but there isn't a coat of webbing on the ground. I want to get some vermiculite to mix in, but I'm not sure what kind to get. I also am not looking forward to moving her, so what do you guys use as bedding?

Finally got my G. Pulchripes! It's so darling and tiny. Brash, as well.

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Also a second B. albopilosum. Didn't really want this one but they came as a pair. Very shy.

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Coco bark? Is it larger pieces or fine?
I do all my Ts on Peat and they seem to well.

H. maculata

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Gorgyrella sp. "black"
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Sicarius sp. "Chile"
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Originally Posted by 3skulls

Coco bark? Is it larger pieces or fine?
I do all my Ts on Peat and they seem to well.

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It's very fine. One I have on pure vermiculite and it seems to be doing well burrowing and whatnot. Trying to find the best option before switching any of them. The internet has so many conflicting opinions.

I use peat for all my spiders. (Well sand for the sand spiders :p )

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A few photos.


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My new female E. truculentus. :D

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Such an impressive thread!!!

I am a catch and release when it comes to all insects, except those of invasive, not natural to the area kind.

I want to say it was fall/winter last year. We would see a few hobospiders here and there, no big deal catch and release. After my wife experienced several spider bites in the course of a few weeks, that led to staph infection my policy has changed. Those...dang things..die on sight. (Working on this word filter thing..) I'm not even nice about it anymore. Stunned with deoderant and cooked on my electric fly swatter. :colbert:

No problems with anything else really. I keep the tree spiders on my portch around and feed them an easy meal here and there. Good pest control if you ask me.

My A. avic right after it molted. She was a Christmas present from my brother.

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My G. pulchripes molted. D'aww.

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Before

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After and shy

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Why'd this guy die?? Used to be one of my favorite threads to look at :tears:

Collection Update as well....

In my absence from California, my A. versicolor got stuck in a bad molt and died. RIP Octavius

Freshly molted A. versicolor.

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Freshly molted A. versicolor.

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That's a beauty of a tarantula:)

Anyone wanna play spot the dwarf T lol? You can probably see how small he/she is against the tiny bark pieces.

This was when I first got them in July of last year. I like to keep them in bigger deli containers as they make the most awesome blanket/tube webs and tunnel systems. I will get an updated picture of them later.

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My biggest of my three Heterothele villosella slings after feeding just now.

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And another waiting to see what else drops near her funnel Web, bearing in mind she's just been fed 3.

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And the last one showing that size isn't everything :P don't discount dwarf tarantulas, they're still lightning fast and aggressive with healthy eating habits :O

https://youtu.be/Z9a9YS3fi7s

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Originally Posted by Mephibosheth1

Why'd this guy die?? Used to be one of my favorite threads to look at :tears:

Collection Update as well....

In my absence from California, my A. versicolor got stuck in a bad molt and died. RIP Octavius

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Not sure if talking to me or not. He is a bit larger now! Lost a leg in his last moult, but he is ok. I'll have to post an update.

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Not sure if talking to me or not.

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I was referring to the thread....seems like the whole forum has almost ground to a halt

I'm still alive :p
I'll try to make a better effort to update things over here. Life has me crazy busy.
A few older pics. Some from over the summer. I was really getting into collecting trues from my area.
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Tried to keep an Orb Weaver and have her set up a home over the windows in my stairs. She stayed for a few days and I'm not sure where she went.

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Here is a new T. stigmurus set up that I did last night. I really hope they go nuts and explode with babies.
Tons and tons of room for them. You can kinda spot one in the lower left. :)

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I'll try and get some new pics up soon.

Skulls I randomly got back on here and this thread is still going haha. Btw my golden knee I got from you ages ago now is doing good. Growing slow it seems.

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Damn!! Hey man.

That's awesome!!

Yeah it is, I'm assuming it's a female. Keeping her butt good sized an just have let her do her thing. Went from burrowing all over to now just hangs out in the open.

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Yep. Once they get a little size to them, they stay out a lot more.

My oldest one ended up being a male and passed on to the other side a couple of months ago.

Ya I have no clue on sex, just guessing cuz growing so slowly.

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Males have alot lower life span right? So if mine was a male it would be towards full growth?

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Yeah, depends on temps / feeding schedule.

Mine matured out as a male right around a 4.5" - 5" leg span.
(Guessing)
Right around 5 years old.

Ok sounds good! See what happens.

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Some new shots from the bug room last night.

B. smithi
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P. cambridgei
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B. boehmei
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GBB
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I love Pamphobeteus genus. Currently I own 1.0 sp. Esmeraldas, 0.3 sp. Machala, 1.1 sp. Tigris, 0.1 sp. Duran and 1.1 ultramarinus.
That ultramarinus girl just freshly molted, and love to see her nice colors.


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^ Pics aren't working on my end.

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Slowly sneaking back into the 8 legged friends. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...3119bee98d.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...4e099b06a3.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...16f36c6372.jpg


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Wish my setup here let me keep pets....I'd definitely have a wall of Ts in my apartment :P

A few pics to enjoy :)
Phone issues, lost a bunch of pics, got a new one and just got Tapatalk installed so I'm back for now.

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Just transferred my P. irminia http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...d1cddb37a3.jpg


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A few pics from the last couple of weeks.

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I'm starting to think this thread may out live all of us lol

Oh, I never saw this thread. I have a G. pulchripes! http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...705c8e40fd.jpg Freshly molted here 😎