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Man...now I need to get some seltzer. That sounds hilarious. I know my roaches love baby food, I prefer to feed them it over lettuce or water for their moisture intake. (Started making a mix of LPS feeder diet, CGD powder, and fish food flakes for my roaches dry diet) A tarantula isn't dead until it starts to decay is a good rule of thumb from what I have heard.
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I'm just very surprised because its been to me in a "dead man walking" state for the last month. It hasn't eaten anything I believe.
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| # ? Sep 24, 2009 22:05 |
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ZarathustraFollower posted:Man...now I need to get some seltzer. That sounds hilarious. I know my roaches love baby food, I prefer to feed them it over lettuce or water for their moisture intake. (Started making a mix of LPS feeder diet, CGD powder, and fish food flakes for my roaches dry diet) My roaches go absolutely bat poo poo over canned corn. They absolutely love it. Also, at first I thought someone posted 5 times in a row because you all have the same "animal haus" thing. 
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| # ? Sep 24, 2009 22:13 |
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We're in a clique now. Even worse, it's the Pet Island one. We are branded as the nerds of nerds forever.
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| # ? Sep 24, 2009 23:35 |
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Anybody else have a spider that likes to bury its water dish? My l parahybana does this, the little poo poo.
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| # ? Sep 24, 2009 23:44 |
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unprofessional posted:Anybody else have a spider that likes to bury its water dish? My l parahybana does this, the little poo poo. My bastard a. geniculata likes to drag her toilet paper tube into herwater dish, which moves a large amount of web and ecoearth into the water dish as well. It's ok though, she is an absolute blast to feed, and always hangs out and says hi 
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unprofessional posted:Anybody else have a spider that likes to bury its water dish? My l parahybana does this, the little poo poo. My G. Pulchripes always did that every time I put one in there. After a while I just stopped trying and now it doesn't mind not having one. I always found it hilarious.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 00:12 |
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unprofessional posted:Anybody else have a spider that likes to bury its water dish? My l parahybana does this, the little poo poo. My l pary drags her dish halfway across the cage and flips it over. When she's not trying to take a nap in it. She's weird.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 01:19 |
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My G. alticeps always filled her water dish with dirt. I have several that web over them too. Now is the time of year if you live somewhere its starting to get chilly and drier to give everyone water dishes and check them regularly. Over the past 15 years the majority of our mystery spider deaths were in the winter and usually could be attributed to hydration/humidity issues. I started keeping water dishes with everyone and it really cut down on the death toll. A water dish is also good for judging if they need more humidity in general, if they are always sitting on it or hovering over it you need to mist the cage or add water to the substrate. I recently moved my Pampho, she was sitting in a crunched up posture and hanging by the water dish all the time. Now she's in a 2 gallon with a plexiglass lid with a few holes and doing much better. She spreads out and is eating much better too.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 02:08 |
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Oh man, just remembered. I went to my LPS and they had a pair of T. Blondi that one of the owners was working on breeding. Seeing a MM Blondi streching out is pretty awesome.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 02:14 |
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BOrangeFury posted:We're in a clique now. Even worse, it's the Pet Island one. We are branded as the nerds of nerds forever. Yeah... I just noticed this too. I wanted to ask about it, but didn't want to find out I was the only one who didn't know what was going on.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 04:32 |
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I think I somehow managed to kill my remaining mantis I have no idea how 
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 05:58 |
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VidaGrey posted:I think I somehow managed to kill my remaining mantis Don't feel too discouraged, baby mantids are really fragile. I'm willing to wager that most mantid keepers kill their first babies too.
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VidaGrey posted:I think I somehow managed to kill my remaining mantis One of mine lives on  Unrelated, how deep should water dishes be filled? Only 2 of my T's have them (everybody else is too small), but I generally just put a little bit in on a regular basis rather than make it somewhat deep. I've got a 3/4" deep kidney shaped dish for iguanas that's larger than the spider in my a. geniculata enclosure, but I just put in enough to make a little surface tension bubble.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 12:50 |
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I fill big wide bottle caps right to the top, and that's always seemed to work well. I know everybody's afraid of T's drowning, but I've never read any accounts of it actually happening. It really seems rather unlikely, given how they drink, unless you're using a gigantic dish. Also, it's adorable to watch them use the water to clean themselves after they eat.
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Unless you have really tiny spiderlings and giant water dishes that are proportionally like swimming pools, there's nothing to worry about. I use peanut butter jar lids, or something similar for adults and keep them filled to the top.  This is the jar lid I use for my curlyhairs water dish, it had no water at the time because she decided to molt in it. Hers is a little big because her cage gets a lot of air, most are a little smaller in proportion to the spider, like this:  They should be able to lower their entire cephalothorax into the dish.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 15:28 |
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Everyone's stuff is looking good! I started law school, which basically means i have no life or free time, and all but a handful of breeding projects have taken a back seat for the time being. I finally got my camera and will try to take pics of my gravid N. coloratovillosus and my orange head roach colony that went from 50 specimens of varying age to about 300 in 4 months.
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| # ? Sep 25, 2009 23:15 |
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What kind of mantids are you guys getting? I'm thinking of adding to the collection with some inverts...otherwise I might just grab some emporer scorpions and try to breed them. Has anyone done any kind of work with color morphs with scorps? Like for sand boas, my other forte: there are high yellows, anerys, albinos, paradox, etc...
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Cowslips Warren posted:Has anyone done any kind of work with color morphs with scorps? Like for sand boas, my other forte: there are high yellows, anerys, albinos, paradox, etc... I'm pretty sure the nature of exoskeletons vs. actual flesh makes it completely impossible for color morphs to exist like you're thinking. I know there can't be albino tarantulas, although you'd have to go run a search on arachnoboards to find one of the (many) people who've posted the science behind it.
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^^^ technically, there are inverts that you could call "albino" in that they lack even the slightest hint of pigment in their exoskeleton. Basically, anything found deep in a cave (including spiders) tend to have evolved like that.
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| # ? Sep 26, 2009 01:58 |
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I remember a while back somebody had a white emperor and everybody was getting in a huff about what it might be. Not sure what became of it.
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| # ? Sep 26, 2009 02:25 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:What kind of mantids are you guys getting? Ephestiasula Boxer. They dead  I definitely plan on getting more because they are loving awesome. However, I think I am going to try and purchase larger ones next time. Seems like the little guys are a bit delicate. All of my T's (and other assorted pets) have survived me being their owner thus far so it's not like I don't do my research on how to care for my pets. I'm still confused as to why they just died. They died about a week a part as well. edit: Looks like mantisplace.com has ghost mantises in stock. I think I am going to purchase one of those and hope that it doesn't drop dead. They are probably super small as well though... VidaGrey fucked around with this message at Sep 26, 2009 around 20:25 |
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Well, I just bought a 5" l.parahybana  It'll be nice to have two of the main "sit around in the open and look big and scary" spiders, though my a. genic is only like 3"
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Hypnolobster posted:Well, I just bought a 5" l.parahybana Paras grow FAST... you'll have a monster in no time. I love paras, but I seem to be really sensitive to their bristles. I had one years ago, but it turned out to be a male and got sold. I oughta suck it up and get another.
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You guys buying mantises be careful. The legality of keeping exotic mantids in the USA is very fuzzy. I would suggest sticking with domestic species, both for legal reasons and to get experience without killing the expensive ones. There are some very cool species from the southwest you should look into, like unicorn mantids.
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Saturniid19 posted:You guys buying mantises be careful. The legality of keeping exotic mantids in the USA is very fuzzy. I would suggest sticking with domestic species, both for legal reasons and to get experience without killing the expensive ones. There are some very cool species from the southwest you should look into, like unicorn mantids. I honestly don't think it matter that much at all. They are mantids, not drugs. Don't flaunt them at an expo and don't release them into the wild (be responsible!) and no one is going to come busting down your door for owning illegal bugs  I'd say most mantid owners have an illegal species or 10 really.edit: I have that weird animal haus tag now which is weird since I never really post in PI outside of this thread (despite being a dog groomer)
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Saturniid19 posted:You guys buying mantises be careful. The legality of keeping exotic mantids in the USA is very fuzzy. I would suggest sticking with domestic species, both for legal reasons and to get experience without killing the expensive ones. There are some very cool species from the southwest you should look into, like unicorn mantids. Yeah, this is why I will stick with native mantids. The chance of a few neonates escaping is enough to keep me from this, similar to how I always dug up the eggs my bearded dragons laid in the backyard---AZ has enough non native animals around, I don't need to add more.
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| # ? Sep 29, 2009 04:00 |
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oh gently caress hes coming for me
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My l. parahybana arrived today and is currently de-stressing her poor self in a nice big enclosure, but unfortunately she's going to be moved into a new enclosure in a few days. I feel like such an rear end moving my T's. They don't like it one bit. My ~3" A. genic has been in what seems to be pre-molt for about 2 weeks now Doesn't want to eat anything, which is saying something considering it usually attacks the gently caress out of anything that touches the substrate. If it doesn't eat or really go into premolt this weekend I'm going to start being concerned. I didn't think spiders this small stopped eating (geniculata in particular..) so early before a molt.
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I read this thread religiously, although I haven't posted yet. I have a g. rosea who just went through his first molt since I've had him (I actually think he may be a she), yay! However, I have a question about the nasty rear end mealworms I feed him. This batch has eaten through their container and escaped twice. I found them crawling all over my counter  . This has never happened before -- are they mutants? Is there some better way to house them?
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you keep them frozen so they cant do anything hurr
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| # ? Oct 2, 2009 22:27 |
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I keep mine in the refrigerator. They slow way down and don't cause any mischief.
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Thanks. I'll try that because searching for worms throughout my kitchen was pretty terrible.Hypnolobster posted:I keep mine in the refrigerator. They slow way down and don't cause any mischief.
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| # ? Oct 2, 2009 22:48 |
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I took my boehmei into school today for the kids to see. The only two people who touched her were two girls. I informed them that they rock.
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unprofessional posted:I took my boehmei into school today for the kids to see. The only two people who touched her were two girls. I informed them that they rock. I've always wanted to do that with my reptiles and inverts... but I think I'm probably too scary looking for most little kids. Edit: What sex is your boehmei? I have a 2" female I'm not married to.....
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These were middle and high school kids; I think younger kids would almost be easier to work with, because fears aren't quite so ingrained. My boehmei is female - I may try to find a male when she's mature, but who knows.
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I absolutely ADORE bohemi's, but they seem hard to find and are almost always overly expensive. Plus I have to get a g. rosea first (and a versi, and another aphonopelma because they're super cool, and...) On a related note, with the arrival of my l.pary, I now have 10 tarantulas again e: there's a Aphonopelma sp. new river female on AB for $25 This hobby is going to ruin me. Hypnolobster fucked around with this message at Oct 4, 2009 around 02:21 |
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Anyone got any idea why my juvenile (possibly sub-adult) b. smithi has started tapping the side of it's tank with it's back legs? It seems to enjoy climbing right up to the top of the tank and resting at the top, with it's abdomen over the heat mat. I noticed a clicking noise earlier while at the computer so went to investigate and found that every 10 seconds or so, he was "kicking" the heat mat with his back leg while up there. Seems strange behaviour - there's nothing in the tank that would be a threat and cause him to kick hairs.
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| # ? Oct 4, 2009 20:30 |
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I made some purchases. 4" OBT 3" Nhandu Coloratovillosus 1" T. Blondi 2" Acanthoscurria Chacoana 5" Female Avic Avic - possibly gravid 3" Avic. Versicolor
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T's arrived today. Versi was more full of piss & vinegar than the OBT was. The n. coloratovillosus is far prettier than I was expecting. Just got a couple pics snapped. Cute little bundle of death:  NHANDU! 
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