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I don't know if this thread really belongs here, but I couldn't decide where else it might go, so here goes.... I have a new friend in Australia that wants to get into T's, but being an American, I don't know crap about how to find local dealers there. Can anyone on here help direct me to a...

Thanks MizM, she is a pretty girl. Good luck with your verdezi too. I'm just glad she wasn't misidentified and paired with that male. He's not too far behind her, maybe a couple moults and he'll be mature. She's about 5" and he's about 4" - 4~1/2". I'm really looking forward to seeing him mature...

Well, the female I inquired about when I included the pic appears to be a Brachypelma verdezi after all. She molted while I was asleep last night. Enclosed is a pic of her, following her pic is a pic of her young suitor-to-be. Thanks for all your help guys.

Whatever it is, it's not a Brachy. They don't have stripes on their abdomens as s'lings, nor are they that leggy. Looks like it is some kind of arboreal/semi-arboreal from the flaring at the ends of the feet. Just what kind is anyone's guess.

Just how rare are these tarantulas? Are they being bred frequently here in the states?

Kelly, if he has a male that successfully moulted after maturity, the bulbs on the palps are a point of GREAT interest, due to the fact that they are one of the things that causes a mature male the most difficulty while moulting after maturity. If they made it through the moult unscathed, that...

Nobody has mentioned or shown a pic of the palpal bulbs that reside at the end of a male Tarantula's pedipalps. Only the mature male will possess the bulbs, as they are for breeding purposes. Show me a closeup shot of the underside of the T. Without the bulbs on the end of the palps, it either...

My first T was a rosey. Talk about a sweetheart. That T was so calm that I could put it on my shouder and watch TV for hours at a time. Had that T nearly ten years ago. Been in love with T's ever since. As for the reason, It was the only exotic pet I wanted that I could get my folks to let me...

Be careful about feeding crix to slings unless the sling is 1"+. I lost an L. parahybana sling to a cricket that was half the size of the sling. Fed the baby, woke up the next morning, cricket was there, baby was gone. Baaad mojo. Fruit flies and small crickets are best unless you are willing to...

There are ways to put down mites without having to go rambo with the cleaning supplies. LOL. Check out this link... http://www.biconet.com/biocontrol/hypoaspis.html This is a US company that sells these beneficial insects. From what I've read in past posts, these predatory mites have been...

The easiest way to find pics of T's is to do an image search on your favorite search engine using the Genus name, in this case Brachypelma. It will show all pertinent images, and you WILL find pictures of hybrids there, I saw them when I was trying to find images that could help me identify my...

A lot of the reason for hybridization is to try and get the attention of the scientific community because they give so many T's full species status without trying to check out their breeding abilities. For those who know the science of it, I'm not talking to you. For those who don't understand...

This is gonna sound crazy, and laugh if you wanna...hehehe;but seriously, it has worked for me in the past when I couldn't find food at the petshops. Take a small piece of raw chicken or ground beef and thread a needle. Push the needle through the raw meat and let the string get pulled just...

Genious, could you post a full shot from above the T? I'd like to see the coloration on it's abdomen.

Very nice T you've got there.

Thanks guys. I don't have any snakes right now cause insects are the only thing overlooked by "rightsbusters" (the people who like to take all the interesting pets and make them illegal to keep within certain city limits), but I'll keep those suggestions in mind, I hated having to chase that...

I gotta agree with the others. Despite the blurriness of the pics, that does look rather suspiciously like a Chaco.

Gir, I'm with ya on that one. Took a good solid spoon to the head of more than one grown rat for my ball python just so he'd have a big meal without having to worry about getting a second scar from a potential meal. What's messed up is when the rat panics at just being picked up and held upside...

One of the mods should turn this thread into a sticky, like the one in the Watering Hole titled "who's behind the computer?". I'm sure we could all benefit from some of the simple, yet ingenious layouts of some folks spider rooms.

As best I can tell without a molt, the other one is a juvenile male, about an inch smaller than she is. Possibly close to maturity. If he matures before she molts, I'll most likely send him out on loan rather than risk hybridizing two species.