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I vape all the time and smoke around my Ts and other exotic pets and have never had a single problem. I've only had my current Ts for about 6 months, but as a teenager I had many exotic inverts, and my "mysterious death" rate was lower than average, and every single animal I have now is...

I have deli cups for all the Ts in larger cages, which have holes punched and are ready to use. In the case of an evacuation, I would cup them all and load them in the designated duffel bag along with small cages and slings. I also have a more complicated plan for if/when we lose power in...

Now that I've ordered some LP slings, the only species I still really want are Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Green Bottle Blue), Hapalopus sp. Columbia (Pumpkin Patch dwarf), and Cyriocosmus ritae (Peruvian dwarf). Also interested in acquiring more different species of hissing roach and maybe a...

Yeah, roaches are great addictive fun. I have a real love of hissers. They're just such slow, docile, cute things, not skittish or reclusive at all, unlike so many other roaches. I had a large colony of regular hissers in the past, which I unfortunately had to sell years ago, but I'm really...

Your pedes are absolutely gorgeous. I love the color combinations. Too bad their demonic personalities and Houdini-like escape skills make them so hard to keep. Otherwise I'd want one.

Me too. But my phone really doesn't like to focus on moving targets, and she freaks out when I open the lid. I'll keep trying, though. (Definitely not a problem I have with any of my other NW terrestrials. The hard part with them is getting them to move at all, lol. One of my rose hairs will...

My new colony of wide-horn hissing roaches is great fun to watch. Something about the movement of their antenna is kind of mesmerizing, and, while I love tarantulas, it's fun to have one terrarium where the bugs are living communally (roaches are sharing space with large pill bugs, who are just...

Very pretty Ts. Those local ads and offers kill my attempts at saving money every time, lol. (The "for sale" section here at Arachnoboards is proving problematic too)

I feel like I have a good mixture of larger juveniles, slings, and a few mature females right now. It's nice to pretty much have all the life stages at once (except mature males, for the moment). With keeping inverts as a hobby, there is literally always something new to read or research. At the...

Here's a pic of the enclosure: I know the water is dirty, but she knocks bedding in it with all her running around, so even cleaning it every day it ends up like that again within a few hours. Her abdomen actually doesn't look shriveled on top today, though, so maybe she at least decided to...

So, an update, but not a promising one. About 2 weeks ago I tried Jose's suggestion, and the spider is now in a small round critter keeper which is basically like an extra-wide deli cup with a better lid. She doesn't run around as much as she used to, but I think that's just because she no...

It's apparently very possible to ship Ts in extremely hot weather. I have a package in the mail right now coming to me from Texas, where I know it's well over 100 degrees. The seller is a well-known professional dealer who ships with LAG, so I have to assume he has a system for packing them so...

I'm not sure which part of this story is more unsurprising: that some people are less intelligent than the average invert, or that the American healthcare system is made of evil, heartless greed. At least this is one of those rare cases where the victim and the system deserve each other. I love...

No idea what happened for erinpuppy, but I just asked Kyle at Roachcrossing a question through the email on his website and he replied within 24 hours, so whatever was going on would appear to be resolved.

I was Googling to find out why my rose hair was playing "the floor is made of lava" in his cage (the substrate had a bit of moisture, of course). I lurked for a long time before joining, reading hundreds upon hundreds of threads and gathering tons of great information, but finally had to join...

My understanding is that the native wildlife has developed resistance to pollution and pesticides in the environment. Since they come from much purer environments, tarantulas have none of that resistance.

I think this is an important thing to remember in all aspects of life. Anyone who tries to make you feel ashamed for loving different things isn't worth wasting time on.

I always raise an eyebrow when I see people talking about the cost of feeding a T collection. I can feed my whole collection for a month for the price of one coffee. If you don't want to hassle with going to the pet store for food, then order a starter colony of feeder roaches. There are 50...

That article pretty much exactly describes my experiences with my friends who are/were arachnophobic. Since I refuse to shut up about my spiders, they've been forced (somewhat against their wills, lol) to be educated about what fascinating, cute, harmless things tarantulas really are. In most...

Yes, I name all my Ts, something I would only not do if I had a sac of slings or got part of a split sac (of course, then I would be planning to sell the slings and they wouldn't really be mine to name). Mine are a mixture of cute names ("Wuzzy" and "Ringlet" for curly hairs, a fat rose hair...