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    Drinking Water for Tarantulas?

    A Reverse Osmosis system does not eliminate all minerals from the water, it just reduce them. It also reduces the levels of lead, nitrates, cysts (cryptosporidium, giardia), arsenic and other contaminants commonly found in unfiltered tap water.
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    Drinking Water for Tarantulas?

    RO water I use purified water for few reasons: 1. the water in my area is very hard and leaves calcium deposit on the enclosure glasses and in the water dishes. 2. I 'm sure that the additive added in municipal water cannot be beneficial for any animal or human. 3. I noticed a reduction in...
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    How can you tell a B jacksoni is pregnant?

    I have 8 sling, they eat prekilled crickets, a small one disapear in few hours. I suggest also a tiny water dish, I noticed that mine drink very often.
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    how many Ts do you have??

    You should open your T's room to public.......:worship: I ‘m willing to pay to see a collection like yours. :drool:
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    how many Ts do you have??

    I know I 'm out of topic; :? How do you take care of all your Ts? How do schedule feeding, fill up water dish, tanks cleaning, etc.? I'm just curious. Thanks
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    how many Ts do you have??

    I have 17 Tarantulas plus WC centipedes, WC widows, few scorpions and few wc wolf spiders. My Collection: Brachypelma smithi 0.0.1 Cyclosternum fasciatum 0.0.1 Grammostola rosea 0.1.2 Brachypelma albopilosum 0.0.1 Pterinochilus murinus 0.0.3...
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    Pokie digging?

    My regalis is constantly moving the substrate; the funny part is that she fills up the water dish (Gatorade cup) with the mixture of web and coconut fibers then moves the dish in a specific corner of the enclosure, dumps it out and returns the dish in the original position.
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    Withdraw

    Buy more to compensate, that's my problem 16 Tarantulas and 4 scorpions in 3 months
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    Time lapse molt video

    You can set a short time then if the footage is too long you can always speed it up on editing or just cut few frames.
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    Mini Millipedes

    I have a tiny one (1”) in a small pill container. It eats and digs all day and night; I have it in captivity since January. I use coconut fiber as substrate and I always leave a small piece of lettuce in it. I tried other vegetables and fruits but it only eats lettuce. Rick
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    Haitian Brown question

    I have a 2" sling, with a really interesting blue color with golden hairs. I must say it has a lot of personality, exploring the enclosure day and night and never refuse to kill a prey even few hour before molt.
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    cobalt blue not burrowing??

    I got my cobalt blue (2.5") 2 weeks ago. it webbed a corner and it was sitting there all day 2 days ago it decided that was time to dig.... it made an impressive borrow overnight, it reached the bottom of the enclosure and all arround the 4 walls, I guess I m lucky the burrow starts on the...
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    Bothriocyrtum californicum

    I know, I 'm a fan of your field trip reports in the wasteland..... :worship: Do you know anyone with a "friendly" female?
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    Bothriocyrtum californicum

    I m looking for a female. I will like to keep few local species. Ciao Emanuele il tuo website e favoloso. :clap: Federico
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    Bothriocyrtum californicum

    I was able to capture a California Trapdor spider male. I have no idea how to take care of him. Does anybody have any suggestion? Thanks
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    G Rosea humidity level

    I keep my G. rosea sling on dry substrate. It gets really mad if I overspill the water dish, it goes on the wall and it waits for the substrate to dry up. :?
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    reincarnation what ( t ) would you be

    Definitely a C. fasciatum a lot of attitude and always hungry (at least mine)
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    What species was your first tarantula?

    I got my 1st T as a gift, it is a 1.5” B. smithi (01/12/07). Now I have a 0.5” G. rosea and a 0.5” C. fasciatum. {D
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    B. smithi slings dig?

    my 1.5" smithi digs all day... I used the 2 aquarium technique to force it to dig near the glass so it's easy to check on it.
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    Enclosure Mistakes

    Ok, I ‘ll leave it alone. So if it’s hungry it will come out. Am I right? I also have a question about the substrate. Do I need to compact it? Or leave loose. Thanks Rick
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