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So good news, whilst being on the board and looking at the pictures etc I can comfortably view tarantulas...step in the right direction if I do say so myself (ha...) I have narrowed down my choice to either Brachypelma hamorii, Grammostola pulchra or Grammostola rosea. Been looking around for...

Thanks again for all the feedback. Been doing a lot of research and looking at suitable habitats etc. Sadly my local pet shop which I was going to check in with I found out are downsizing and are discontinuing all invertebrates and reptiles which is such a shame, they were one of the last that...

Amazed to come back from work and see people still offering their advice and thoughts :D Glad I did ask here lol gonna keep all these in mind when time comes! This honestly made me laugh when I read the comparison but completely understand. When I read the "no brain" I genuinely went and...

One thing I did want to ask about was heating, thank you for reminding me @Potatatas lol. I live in UK and it does get rather chilly and my homes heating isn't the most reliable (the system is old and trying to get my landlord to fix it is an uphill struggle!) I know you stated stay clear of...

Thank you to both. I genuinely always watched the youtubers and found the names confusing and always wondered "why don't they just use the common names?" and as I'm on here I'm also watching Dark Den and he literally mentions the same basic reasons (talking about how the term "Goliath Bird...

You watch Dark Den too? Love Petko lol honestly watching him has calmed me a lot seeing him handle them and the ways he talks about them is somewhat therapeutic lol. I'll deffo give Tom and Euler a look too!

So as the title says I'm considering getting my first tarantula however there is more to the story before I ask the usual questions. I'm suffer from arachnophobia...yup I know how that sounds but I've finally come to the conclusions after many discussions with my friend who also suffered from...

I know this is going to sound rather silly but what would I do with them? Sell them? Where could I do that I have no clue where to begin with that aspect lol.

I keep a Rainbow Millipede (Tonkinbolus dollfus) and she has never once secreted when I've handled her, she's more prone to just roll up and wait until "coast is clear" then she's out and about. They aren't too fast either so keeping track of them while they're out of the faunicarium is easy and...

Just wondering if there is such a thing as "too many woodlice" as I bought a pretty small culture to tend to my rainbow millipedes home and now they seem to be everywhere...and I mean EVERYWHERE! In every crevice and under every small seclusion is a small village. I've read stories of...

I've had my rainbow millipede now for a few months and she's doing great & have recently moved in a hunn of tropical grey woodlice to keep the place nice and tidy however I've been wondering about keeping more then one genus in the same faunarium. I've read most millipedes live around each...

Just thought I'd do another update on how the two millis are doing! Dash has settled in nicely. I've noticed two burrow holes, one directly next to the side, which means she's been busy while I've been asleep although I've noticed she spends most of her time in the moss chilling. I do tend to...

Quick update, came home today to my new heat mat (yay) but sod's law has kicked in and the weather is nice a warm (yay...) I've noticed Rush's shell colour is turning pale which a good friend of mine who keeps scorpions & spiders has told me that means he is molting so leave him be and get...

Yeah tbh I've found the bulb is practically useless so I ordered a heat mat off amazon and a thermometer which will be with me tomorrow (thermometer will take a day extra) and I'll take the bulb and lamp back, it was a trial and error thing and it error'd. I'm avoiding the hell outta fiddling...

So my paranoia about the temperature finally got to me and I picked up a 25 watt daytime heat lamp and have it about 15cm above the closed lid of the faunarium, seriously the moss inside was freezing. The smaller of the two didn't move when I saw him, got worried so picked him up to check on...

Update #2: So after a while they both started moving round and even let me handle them for some pictures which was cool. They're both relaxing in the faunarium, Dash (the larger) is happily checking it out while Rush is still a little bit rigid but when I handled them they were both happy and...

Update: Just got home and took them out. They've unravelled themselves and the larger of the two is looking round. Maybe them being all rigid was because of the bumpy bus ride?

So just been to local (by local I mean a 2 hour bus journey) to pick up two rainbow millipedes and currently on return trip. Halfway back I noticed one of them had used it’s defenses but the most worrying part was both of them were just rigid and not moving at all. When I got on the bus and...

Thank you for the replies :D I'm always worried bout temperature but that probably does come from my days of keeping reptiles so thank you for putting my mind at ease with that. I'll be getting some leaves to add to the mix because I know that's also a primary source of food for them and...

So I finally sorted out a faunarium and substrate to keep the millipedes I'm going to be getting however I'm a little worried about the temperature. My houses temp doesn't stay consistent to say the least and I'm worried the temperature changes won't be very good for them (sometimes even I can...