Tarantulas

[jpappy789]

I love looking at pictures, but once I get within sight of ANY spider I freak!!! Nice tarantulas by the way

 

[cam191919]

they look so neat and clean in ther bookshelf. do you breed them

 

[katschamne]

yeah, i guess it's no different than my fish tank collection, the containers are just smaller and don't need to be filtered so you can get more of them. very interesting. also just fyi hubby is standing behind me asking if he can have some too....aarrggh!

Sorry. Like I said it is addicting. He has even sucked me into it. He is in an invert club (they call it "The Bug Club" for short ). He wants me to go and I tell him no. I don't want to be turned to the creepy side, I'm living on the edge as it is.

they look so neat and clean in their bookshelf. do you breed them

Nope. He wants to breed a couple of his spiders, but he'll loan them out to a friend that does breed them. I put my foot down on breeding and raising a roach colony to feed the spiders. He can tell me until he is blue in the face that they are not the same common roaches that are found in homes, but I'm not having that. I hate crickets but I can deal with them.

 

[ohbly]

Those things creep me out, but so do horror movies, and I collect those so I can understand why you'd want to keep them.

 

[indoexotic]

Hello somebody people interseted to buy tarantula with large quatytyfrom Borneo Island (Indonesian) ???

 

[lindsey crashed]

i very much enjoy them as pets... you cant necessarily play with them... but it is very neat to watch them build their home.. and feeding them is fantastic..!
my ex used to have a closet full... i dont remember them all, but my favorites were the chaco golden knee (grammostola aureostriata), and the sri lankan ornamental (poecilotheria fasciata).. we got her when she was teeny tiny and she got about 4 1/2 inches... and she had sooo much color! lots of yellow.. she was beautiful..
when we split, he decided he wasnt keeping them.. so i got to keep my favorite of them all... the usambara baboon (pterinochilus murinus).
she was soooo mean. when you opened the cage to feed her, you could hear her hissing. and she was a vicious eater... very exciting.
but a little scary.
unfortunately, one of my cats got shut in the closet where i kept her, and knocked the cage over... i think she hit her belly because she lived for a couple days and then died..
i was very sad and have been meaning to get another one.. but i am waiting until im not moving every couple of months... which should be soon..!
anyway, here is the only picture i have of her...

thanks!

 

[katschamne]

That's awesome picture. We have the pterinochilus murinus as well but I have to say I'm disappointed in ours. We never ever see it. Once I saw legs. I know that it eats because the crickets are gone the next day.

I can't believe our grammostola aureostriata. We got her when she was about 1.5" and now she is about 4". We now have 100 tarantulas 4 scorpions and one a red trapdoor spider (Ctenolophus sp.)

 

[DrNo]

Just found this thread.... awesome. You've got some serious MTS LOL. The Mrs. and I have a B. smithii and she's the easiest pet (maintenenance wise) we own; 100 times easier than the fish tanks and the Bearded Dragon. Outstanding collection!

 

[newportjon]

Very cool collection!

Imagine if they all got loose?:nilly: <- That would be me!

(PS - Looking at pics of spiders always makes me itchy!)

 

[lindsey crashed]

That's awesome picture. We have the pterinochilus murinus as well but I have to say I'm disappointed in ours. We never ever see it. Once I saw legs. I know that it eats because the crickets are gone the next day.

thanks..! my pterinochilus was a littly shy as well, but she would come out of hiding to catch a mean quite often... and i did enjoy the web maze she created.. very cool, i think..!

I can't believe our grammostola aureostriata. We got her when she was about 1.5" and now she is about 4". We now have 100 tarantulas 4 scorpions and one a red trapdoor spider (Ctenolophus sp.)

we had gotten ours about about a half inch.. and it grew pretty quick.. it got up to about 3 1/2" before she was sold.. and it kinda got really crazy as it got bigger.. very fast.

100+ arachnids is a ton..!