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Arachnids as pets...yes, take ‘em into your home ‘cuz you wanted to

Discussion in 'Pets' started by Pinay, Jan 17, 2020.

  1. Jan 17, 2020 at 12:27 PM
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    So I’m also on TacomaWorld and have been watching and posting in a “Lets see creepy spiders” thread.

    Here it is...

    https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lets-see-some-creepy-spiders.552941/

    Now, don’t get me wrong. Spiders are creepy! But fascinating at the same time!! I am mostly talking tarantulas!! Go big or go home!!

    So many diff types of species with the most beautiful colorations!!

    What’s the saying? Do or be at what you fear and you won’t fear it?

    Gonna post up some pics n vids.
     
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    So the long and short of it, I purchased some tarantulas and received them today.

    My original intent was to get one, but because of issues in in-stock inventory, I have a Golden Blue-leg Baboon sling (spiderling) and a Gooty Sapphire tarantula that’s about 1” in span.

    It is my hope to bring some understanding and fascination for these guys and perhaps allay any fears you may have.
     
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    As I open the ship package.

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    I’ll save the attempts to get em in new enclosures to in and acclimating.

    Gooty Sapphire

     
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    Tarantulas are cool.

    I ain’t playin with no centipedes/millipedes tho
     
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    Yeah I wouldn’t either!!
     
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    Here is the Golden blue-leg Baboon sling...

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    The sling will be eating pinhead crickets and I’ll post up some feeding clips at some point.

    Crickets didn’t make it in this shipment so it’ll be a few days.

    I think the Gooty would do well with larger crickets or worms..
     
  13. Jan 17, 2020 at 12:51 PM
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    I raised two female rose hairs... not simultaneously. They got El Gigante.

    I like them better than feesh in an aquarium.
     
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  14. Jan 17, 2020 at 12:53 PM
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    Females are usually the bigger gender. How big did they get?
     
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    Woof! The second one would span a tea cup saucer if she spread out.

    I used ground corn cob for their litter. In the summer when the Japanese Beetles sprang forth I would toss a couple in. The beetles immediately would burrow under the litter and move along the bottom glass creating a moving bulge.

    She would storm out of her hidey-hole and extend all her legs outward. When the moving bulge lifted a leg she would streak to that location and dig furiously.
     
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    If I were home enough to have a pet, I would get a dog or two first. Spiders...I live in Louisiana, during the summer there are probably 10 or more Web Weavers on the back porch alone and probably wouldn't take me more that a few minutes to find some big Wolf spiders, centipedes, or little scorpions. I'd probably get stung by wasps or bitten by a snake while I was looking too.
     
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    I know being South in your climate can produce tarantula-like specimens!
     
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    The camera doesn’t pick up the blue hues on the Gooty’s legs as much as in person but you can see some...

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    Yes sir. If you're brave, you can come crawl under my house.:annoyed:
    The ADT guy came by to add some security mods and said he wasn't afraid of anything, pulled the access panel off and there were two black widows on it, looked inside and there were two big black chicken snakes looking at us, I said "good luck" as he went in. Didn't die.
     
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    I think I’ll draw my line in the sand at snakes. I know they’re not slimy or gross to the touch but I can keep spiders in locked enclosures!
     
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    Way cool! Id lean more toward an Emperor Scorpion, personally. I think scorpions are just the coolest damn bugs. Spiders freak me out; except the little jumping spiders. They are effing cute.
     
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    Ever go outside with blue light?? Scorpions jump right out in places you didn’t they were...

    I think you’re safe being up in the cold where you are!!
     
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    Yeah, they glow, and they can't see that light. It's great for pets cuz you can watch them with the lights off (insert dirty joke here) and it doesn't disturb them.
    There are some desert scorpions I. Some areas up here, and even some sun spiders. THOSE things are pure terror wrapped in ugly.:eek2::puke:
     
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    Oh, hell NO!! :eek:

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    It’s the movies so they will thrill people for the box office money!! I’m sure to an extent the movie was exaggerated more than they let on!
     
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    Yup. That's the one. Nasty nasty things.
     
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    This is the one reason -40 Alberta is ok imo. My ancestors must have been attacked by spiders cause FU€K TH@T!!! I mean they cool and they have there place for sure. Just not in my house haha
     
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