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One of my favorites--Warning spider picture

Gut loaded with Bhut Jolokia..just like I like 'em! :lol:

Never owned a C. elegans but it was on the eventual list heh...I guess they all are..

Really considering picking up a spider...had some H. maculata at the store I was at the other day...almost bought one. The only thing is that when I have to leave..someone needs to watch it for me, so I don't want to get anything that will be too much of a handful...ie: H. mac. Was almost thinking of buying a young female B. emilia. Great looking spider and easy to care for.
 
xgrafcorex said:
Gut loaded with Bhut Jolokia..just like I like 'em! :lol:

Never owned a C. elegans but it was on the eventual list heh...I guess they all are..

Really considering picking up a spider...had some H. maculata at the store I was at the other day...almost bought one. The only thing is that when I have to leave..someone needs to watch it for me, so I don't want to get anything that will be too much of a handful...ie: H. mac. Was almost thinking of buying a young female B. emilia. Great looking spider and easy to care for.
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If you're looking to pick one up check out my list. We can work something out I know. This particular lady is available. http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=151675
 
Appreciate the offer, still not sure though. I want to try and keep it at one spider! :lol: No more than two for sure. Either way, it's tough to decide with so many different species available. Do I go with an old favorite or something that was on my list to one day own? Can't decide yet. I guess it's not a bad problem to have.
 
Heh just saw that BrianS is on here. Seems were getting more and more arachnoholics these days! :D He'll have to start up a scorpion thread for sure.
 
xgrafcorex said:
Heh just saw that BrianS is on here. Seems were getting more and more arachnoholics these days! :D He'll have to start up a scorpion thread for sure.
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Not sure if you know him Brian but Vincent is around here too. He's from The Netherlands and did some T breeding for a while but his main focus is scorps and 'pedes I think.

I sent some pepper powder to a couple of folks on AB last fall and one of them is growing plants now. Slowly but surely!

As far as what T for you to go with I would suggest an extremely low maintenance one, terrestrial, semi adult. Maybe an Aphonopelma or a Grammastola, maybe a Brachypelma. Just tossing ideas out there. Maybe a little G. pulchra?
 
Dude, seriously......

Ok, I have to admit some of them look deadly & beautiful. But I get CHILLS just looking at them.

I've always wondered... don't they bite? I mean, even by accident - you know, you freak them out, take away their food, SOMETHING? Aren't they poisonous and all that jazz?

I mean, you read about Wolf spiders sometimes causing all sorts of problems... and these are tarantula's, born n bred to be evil and deadly!

Scorpions too. Crazy.

I guess anything can kill you... I used to keep salt water tanks with zooanthids and their supposed to have deadly toxins too... but they didn't have fangs and couldn't run/move!

I'm morbidly fascinated by spiders I think.
 
Lostmind, there has never, ever been a document death caused by the bite of a tarantula. You can't even be allergic to their venom as it lacks certain proteins. Most of the time a tarantula bite will have less effect on a person than a bee sting.

However there are a few species that have a more potent venom. Local effects are redness at the site and some swelling. It can cause nausea and muscle cramps and they can last several days.

They are not aggressive either. They don't lay in wait hoping you'll stick your hand into range so they can leap out and bite you. In fact they can't even leap. They're first reaction when bothered is to retreat. They will defend themselves. They will get into a threat posture, rise up on the back four legs, sometimes two if they're really scared. The four front legs and pedipalps, the two smaller legs in the very front, will reach up as high as they can trying to make themselves appear larger than they really are. Here's where you'll also get a great view of bared fangs!

They aren't "born and bred to be evil and deadly". How can something as simple as a tarantula even conceive "evil"? They do what all animals do and that is try to survive.

If you have any questions about them please, please get in touch with me via PM. I can show you a whole nother world.

Anyone else have any questions about them? Just ask if you do. Thanks
 
patrick said:
Lostmind, there has never, ever been a document death caused by the bite of a tarantula. You can't even be allergic to their venom as it lacks certain proteins. Most of the time a tarantula bite will have less effect on a person than a bee sting.

However there are a few species that have a more potent venom. Local effects are redness at the site and some swelling. It can cause nausea and muscle cramps and they can last several days.
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Cool! I swear I watched a documentary on scorpions and tarantula's that said both had the ability to kill man. I was in high school... maybe I remember it wrong? Or maybe there was only 1 type that can do so and I remember it as being ALL of them?

patrick said:
They are not aggressive either. They don't lay in wait hoping you'll stick your hand into range so they can leap out and bite you. In fact they can't even leap. They're first reaction when bothered is to retreat. They will defend themselves. They will get into a threat posture, rise up on the back four legs, sometimes two if they're really scared. The four front legs and pedipalps, the two smaller legs in the very front, will reach up as high as they can trying to make themselves appear larger than they really are. Here's where you'll also get a great view of bared fangs!

They aren't "born and bred to be evil and deadly". How can something as simple as a tarantula even conceive "evil"? They do what all animals do and that is try to survive.
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Uhhh they can be evil because I can project my fears upon them and give them personality traits as if they were human, even though they aren't. ;)


patrick said:
If you have any questions about them please, please get in touch with me via PM. I can show you a whole nother world.

Anyone else have any questions about them? Just ask if you do. Thanks
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You are a good ambassador of Araneide's (what the heck is the plural of that?).
 
There are a few scorpion species that can drop ya like a stone if they tag you. None native to the US. An almost rule of thumb is the smaller the pedipalp, ie., the pinchers, the more potent the venom. For the most part that will hold true.

Thanks for the compliment too.

Don't have a clue about the plural of Araneide, sorry.:oops:
 
I was going to get an emperor scorpion once as a pet(and name it Igor) just to freak my mom out but she managed to find out about my plans and leaned on my old man really hard so he kicked my ass about it and stopped the plan butt cold.
 
talas you're right, spiders are bad for pepper plants. Thing is tarantulas are not true spiders, they are mygalamorphs.;)
 
Here's one of the biggest reasons I got into the tarantula hobby--captive bred babies!

This particular bunch were taken out of their egg sac on the first day of May. Here's a pic of the sac with mom taking very good care of it. Mom is an Avicularia versicolor.

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For the 28 days that she carried it I never once saw her without it. That's a great mom. She did put up a pretty good fight when it came time for me to take it. This part always bugs me a bit, especially when they go searching all over their container for it. Guilt moves in then. However it is quickly replaced with joy when you get the sac open and find this:

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The small lighter colored pieces are what is left over after they have molted once.

Here's what they look like spread out a little bit.

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Now if it bothers you looking at baby spiders try to think of each and every one of them as a $20 bill. That usually helps. I'm estimating between 110 and 130. Great hobby, just like growing peppers.:)
 
Congrats Pat! Can't imagine the joy have having a ton of new A. versis about. I have only bred my old G. rosea, and C. vittatus (scorpions), the rosea never worked out..though I had a WC female lay a sack...she ate it though. The vittatus mating didn't seem to work either. One of the females I nabbed when out at ACON 06 or whenever it was...put out a brood but they were premature.

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lostmind said:
So why do you have to remove the sac from the mother? Will she eat the young?
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Sometimes. If she senses something isn't right..or is just hungry as hell. Not really sure of all the reasons she might. It doesn't always happen though, some people leave the sac with the mom the whole time and it works just fine. Not to mention, nobody is there to take it away in the wild. :)
 
I take it because it's so much easier to separate the babies while they're not that mobile. If you let them emerge from the sac while they're with mom they are usually miniature tarantulas and are pretty quick. Makes them hard to catch. Plus remember mom is in there guarding them.

They aren't too mobile at the stage I take them in.
 
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