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You need to organize a group of political supporters. Send congressman and Senators E-mails with scientific facts that the Tarantula keepers/breeders in the USA are helping to prevent a species from going extinct. It needs to be like the sacred oath of each Tarantula keeper able to own a Pokie...

For the right amount of money I would sell my Grandma. Just joking, but considering I bought most of my first T's as slings in bulk from a breeder. Other than the few pets I had as a kid, I went into the hobby with the mindset that it could be a very interesting and lucrative hobby. Most of...

Me either first and only sling find, and to come across so many. Like they were literally all over the rotten logs hiding in the nooks and cranies. What was weird was there were just as many funnel web spiders living right alongside the T slings. Also a good amount of smaller adult funnel web...

So I have been a fairly serious Tarantula enthusiast for at least 10 years. I have always field collected in Texas but moved to the Hill Country a few years ago. I have really been impressed with the sheer number of T's and Giant Centipedes that I have been finding lately. Actually the other...

One thing to consider is how much you personally like them. The other thing is if they truly are that rare, then you could be one of the first people to sell them in some time, that could make it more profitable for you. I would not go crazy and spend 10,000 grand on some T's that just do not...

"My parents always said that whenever I moved out of their house, I could have as many animals as I wanted.... I don't think they realized how seriously I took that." Fortunately my parents owned a wholesale reptile/exotic animal business growing up so I was able to have anything I wanted and...

You are not by any chance near the Texas Hill Country are you. Austin maybe, Zookeepers,(in Austin), has the best selection of T's and other inverts I have ever seen in a pet store. Probably 150+ T's for sale. If you are out this way I will hook you up with a B. albopilosum if you met me...

How long has she been curled up for?

Take Poecilotheria for instance, there are reports of immense and I mean very immense levels of pain attributed to their bites. So far I have not seen anything that has shown a death from a T bite. The worst symptom of a pokie bite I have seen was possibly coma, but the pain they say is akin...

That is a really pretty P.irminia, great resolution on the pic wow!

I am using the same size tank for my Chilean Copper and it is almost full grown and doing just finein it. The great thing about T's is that they do not really need to much space, and I have found they really seem to do better in a small to medium size enclosure when it comes to finding food...

If anything the hobby is protecting these species by producing thousands of captive breed offspring. Without captive breeding efforts nothing could be done to reintroduce species once they are extinct in the wild. Maybe this would be a good valid argument to bring up if any of you are going to...

I grew up and still live in Texas, not long ago I brought home some wild giant centipedes and like a moron I let one escape in my room like you. Honestly I did not sleep very well and swore I could hear it walking around at night. Luckily I never told my wife until I caught it, (or maybe...