Fine with me - as long as they are in a pen and not running around my houseI actually have seen these as a pet. They move out FAST if they get out onto the floor.
Im glad someone has a sense of humor lol
Just something about spiders I love.
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Im glad someone has a sense of humor lol
A very small sample of pic's of my collection.....
P. Cascada
P. Vespertinus
P. Duran
P. Cascada
P. Vespertinus
P. Duran
How many do you have? I have around 100, give or take a few.
I have quite a few 
I specialize in the rare ones, not too many that would be considered common.
I specialize in the rare ones, not too many that would be considered common.
Care to share details? I'm really curious. It's not too often I find someone as passionate about keeping tarantulas as I am. I've been keeping them for about 14 years. How about you?
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+1. Would be interested in seeing myself!
Here's my collection (at least, I think that's all of them)
0.0.2 Acanthoscurria geniculata (Brazilian whiteknee)
0.1.0 Aphonopelma anax (Texas tan)
0.0.1 Aphonopelma burica (Costa Rican bluefront)
2.2.0 Aphonopelma chalcodes(desert blond)
0.1.0 Aphonopelma hentzi (Oklahoma brown)
0.2.0 Aphonopelma mojave (Mojave Desert dwarf)
0.1.0 Aphonopelma sp. ("New River" rustrump)
0.0.1 Avicularia diversipes (Amazon sapphire pinktoe)
0.0.6 Avicularia versicolor (Antilles pinktoe)
0.1.1 Brachypelma albopilosum (curlyhair)
0.0.3 Brachypelma emilia (Mexican redleg)
0.0.4 Brachypelma smithi (Mexican redknee)
0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans (Mexican redrump)
0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans FL (Mexican redrump)
0.0.1 Ceratogyrus darlingi (rear horned baboon)
0.0.1 Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (greenbottle blue)
1.1.0 Eupalaestrus campestratus (pink zebra beauty)
0.0.1 Euathlus sp. "Yellow" (Chilean dwarf yellow)
2.1.0 Grammostola porteri (Chilean rose)
0.0.4 Grammostola pulchra (Brazilian black)
0.0.2 Grammostola pulchripes (Chaco goldenknee)
0.1.0 Grammostola rosea (Chilean rose – RCF)
1.2.40? Holothele incei (Trinidad olive) - Communal tank, conservative estimate of # of juveniles
1.1.1 Lasiodora parahybana (Brazilian salmon)
0.1.0 Poecilotheria fasciata (Sri Lankan ornamental)
1.1.0 Poecilotheria regalis (Indian ornamental)
0.0.1 Poecilotheria subfusca "Highland" (Ivory ornamental)
0.1.0 Psalmopoeus cambridgei (Trinidad chevron)
0.0.3 Pterinochilus murinus (Usambara baboon)
Numbers indicate (# males, # females, # unsexed juveniles)
0.0.2 Acanthoscurria geniculata (Brazilian whiteknee)
0.1.0 Aphonopelma anax (Texas tan)
0.0.1 Aphonopelma burica (Costa Rican bluefront)
2.2.0 Aphonopelma chalcodes(desert blond)
0.1.0 Aphonopelma hentzi (Oklahoma brown)
0.2.0 Aphonopelma mojave (Mojave Desert dwarf)
0.1.0 Aphonopelma sp. ("New River" rustrump)
0.0.1 Avicularia diversipes (Amazon sapphire pinktoe)
0.0.6 Avicularia versicolor (Antilles pinktoe)
0.1.1 Brachypelma albopilosum (curlyhair)
0.0.3 Brachypelma emilia (Mexican redleg)
0.0.4 Brachypelma smithi (Mexican redknee)
0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans (Mexican redrump)
0.1.0 Brachypelma vagans FL (Mexican redrump)
0.0.1 Ceratogyrus darlingi (rear horned baboon)
0.0.1 Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (greenbottle blue)
1.1.0 Eupalaestrus campestratus (pink zebra beauty)
0.0.1 Euathlus sp. "Yellow" (Chilean dwarf yellow)
2.1.0 Grammostola porteri (Chilean rose)
0.0.4 Grammostola pulchra (Brazilian black)
0.0.2 Grammostola pulchripes (Chaco goldenknee)
0.1.0 Grammostola rosea (Chilean rose – RCF)
1.2.40? Holothele incei (Trinidad olive) - Communal tank, conservative estimate of # of juveniles
1.1.1 Lasiodora parahybana (Brazilian salmon)
0.1.0 Poecilotheria fasciata (Sri Lankan ornamental)
1.1.0 Poecilotheria regalis (Indian ornamental)
0.0.1 Poecilotheria subfusca "Highland" (Ivory ornamental)
0.1.0 Psalmopoeus cambridgei (Trinidad chevron)
0.0.3 Pterinochilus murinus (Usambara baboon)
Numbers indicate (# males, # females, # unsexed juveniles)
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I started keeping spiders as a kid about 40 years ago, and never really ever stopped. I think I started seriously getting into T's in the mid to late 80's, but honestly can't remember exactly. I have a single room that I keep all my T's in, it's set up with heat and timers.
Wow, we need to talk.
Kidding. Very impressive.
Any idea on what this little guy is that hitch hiked in my produce from Southern California and surprised me while eating dinner?
No clue, but he looks hungry!
Thread Bump. I just got a good eggsac from one of my tarantulas. Lasiodora parahybana (Brazilian salmon tarantula). These tarantulas can get legspans of 10" and can have 1000-2000 babies at a time. Luckily my female is younger, and her eggsac wasn't quite that large. After I opened it, and separated out the dud eggs, I was left with about 380 baby tarantulas! Taking the eggsac from a female after 45-60 days of development is common, so you don't end up having to find all the babies in mama's tank. I will artificially incubate them until they molt one more time and are ready to be housed in their own little containers.
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Ok... just... wow...
Most of you know how much I hate spiders... to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, "I'm using the word HATE about spiders."
But even I have to admit this thread is hella-cool! These most-misunderstood of creepy crawlies can do some magnificent things, and are down right pretty! Looking at them makes me feel like a horror movie fan. I know they'll give me the heebie jeebies, but as long as they stay on their side of the glass (or computer monitor), I think I'll be ok.
I have one question, KJ, how do you sort out the duds from the good spiders in an egg sac? Also, why couldn't you put the whole sac in a box and let it happen naturally?
Most of you know how much I hate spiders... to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, "I'm using the word HATE about spiders."
But even I have to admit this thread is hella-cool! These most-misunderstood of creepy crawlies can do some magnificent things, and are down right pretty! Looking at them makes me feel like a horror movie fan. I know they'll give me the heebie jeebies, but as long as they stay on their side of the glass (or computer monitor), I think I'll be ok.
I have one question, KJ, how do you sort out the duds from the good spiders in an egg sac? Also, why couldn't you put the whole sac in a box and let it happen naturally?
I separated out the eggsac contents into 6 different containers (delicups with coffee filters in them). Once the good eggs molted into 1st instar spiderlings (3rd stage of development), they are a bit more mobile and can crawl around. So they kind of stick to the coffee filter, and it was mostly just a matter of pouring off the dud eggs, since they would just roll out. They are still working off the energy they got from the egg, and do not need to eat until they molt one more time. After that time, they will need to be separated out into individual enclosures, or they could begin to eat each other.
You can do that, and some people do. But once you pull the eggsac from mommy, I want to open it up, and ensure some of the eggs are developing. I pulled an eggsac from one tarantula and all of the eggs were duds, all dried up inside. Also, if some are duds, they could start to mold, and if that happens it can spread and kill off any good ones, so you want to separate them before that happens.
This brings up other questions... probably better suited to an advanced biology class.
Ah. Makes sense. I guess in nature, mommy is tending to the sac, so the chances of mold/infection/etc happening is diminished?
Hit me! Been studying these amazing creatures for 15 years.
Yeah, in the wild, Mommy digs a burrow, and goes to the right depth to provide the optimal temperature and humidity levels for the eggsac to develop. In captivity, everything is artificial and conditions are replicated as much as we can, but not always optimal. There's lots of room for error.
Speaking in regards to energy transfer. How does a baby "live off the energy of the egg sac?" What does that mean? Are they consuming the sac as they hatch?
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