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To reiterate - "New River" is not a taxonomically valid name, just a nick name for the spider in the hobby. The species wasn't identified at time of capture and was probably hyped up as something different (or was a regional variant that looked slightly different) to garner more interest. When...

Yup, I'd agree it's a fungus gnat. I just had one in my Poec tank - they appeared after I brought some potted plants indoors. No reason to worry.

Feed them Oak, Ivy and Bramble. They will be inordinately happier/healthier and the chances of them getting something bad is minimal unless you choose a tree that is being sprayed with insecticide (which is SUPER rare - a prized ornamental Oak that's being attacked by beetles might be getting...

If you search the forums here there are several good threads about trying (and rarely succeeding) to keep Solifugae.

Sure looks like cancerides (Haitian brown). You inadvertently have purchased a more aggressive tarantula, so give up hopes of ever holding this spider. But my cancerides is one of my favorites because of how aggressively she eats and burrows when she is ready to molt - much more interesting than...

As docile as your animal may now be - one day she will decide not to be. It's one thing if you get bit, but having other people (especially young children) hold a spider with known potent venom is inviting a world of civil and/or criminal problems. Had a child been bitten the doctor at the...

An ootheca is completely different structurally. Individual eggs are encased in a protein and lumped together that hardens into a shell, some are papery, leathery, or rock hard. Spiders group eggs all together in a silken ball which is called an egg sack. Two terms for two very different methods...

Tom- Beautiful pictures of the parasitoid. This sure looks like the genus Ocnaea, but I'm a moth-guy who only worked for Ev Schlinger for a handful of years and never really had to identify these flies. They are very rare in collections, so I hope you've kept your specimen or at least sent it...

Predators in general don't grow fast and therefore don't make for good feeders. Stay far away from feeding your animals something that could eat it in turn (crickets can do this too, but it won't be actively hunting your T). You might want to try mealworms if you can get them to your spider...

I'd be impressed if you could get a spider to "catch" a water gel let alone eat it. I would wager the spider would die long before it would eat any artificial diet, these are predators after all. Gut-loading is a marketing term for cricket feed. I do usually feed my crickets some bell-pepper...

None of my B. smithi dig, but my G. pulchripes sling does and seems pretty bad at it. It'll dig in the corners and any sort of burrow is just dirt on its back for a day or two until it gives up and moves to another corner to do the same thing. I gave her a small hide and now she has stopped the...

My Rosea doesn't look like its webbing and I don't notice any until I pull off a dead cricket and a chunk of soil comes along with it. She is webbing, it's just very fine.

I would suggest NOT getting an Epi-pen unless someone in your home is specifically known to go into anaphylaxis with stings. A large dose of Epinephrin can be very dangerous to a person not actually going into shock, and you can stop a heart this way. If you're bit and over-react you might do...

I just lost my A. avic the other day after taking a turn for the worse for no apparent reason. She molted into a sub adult female 3 months ago, was eating just fine and all of a sudden started to be non-responsive. Crouched up in the corner of her cage and would barely move so I put her in the...

WIFI doesn't affect humans, it won't affect spiders. Perfectly safe! (unless you have Comcast and have to reset your ethernet every night because they suck and end up throwing your table and router out the window in frustration).

Right so I guess Chris Hamilton is still working on the American Aphonopelma, an interview was posted here: http://birdspiders.ch/interview-chris-hamilton/ Send your spiders to him! (maybe haha)

I think the best, and only, thing to do with American Aphonopelma is to keep really good data with the animals we collect, raise to maturity and donate the specimens to someone working on the group, or at least to a major institution like the California Academy of Sciences where they would end...

Wet dirt at 350 wouldn't burn for a day or so... I heat it up and it still comes out damp, but while it cools it evaporates most of the leftover water. But yes, don't set your oven to 400 and leave the house.

I bake mine in the oven. I use one of the disposable aluminum pans and cook at 350 for an hour or so. Mix a few times and let it cool down overnight. It's pretty dry by then!

It's called marketing. This doesn't prevent any kind of test - this just keeps that test from being wildly applicable to world water supplies. Yes water quality does vary in America, but not by a lot, and in general most places do the same thing to the water.