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I would just start reading about the different species commonly kept as pets, then compare that with what is available in your area

really nice shot, great lighting

Honestly I would not even fret about getting a male G. rosea. I asked this same question at the show this weekend, and got the same answer as given by @Tarantuland except with the extra caveat that all the wild caught males from before the export ban are now dead, leaving only the WC females...

Yeah if I'm gonna be doing any intensive work with them I'm wearing gloves and a face mask (the COVID kind) and using the tongs as much as possible. I think I've held a T once in the past decade and that was enough for me. Mask is really helpful so you don't inhale the hairs and also so your...

thanks for the input everyone (and please keep sharing more experiences and ideas) I ended up going with the Exo Terra conversion as described in the YouTube vid I posted a few messages back. My first time doing anything DIY in a long time. I think it came out alright. I used the acrylic /...

what kind of camera configuration did you use for those shots?

It looks good :) But you have it up against a bright looking window, you might consider trying out live plants in a setup like that.

It sounds like I am gonna have to start visiting different shows, and arriving at doors-open instead of halfway around lunch time. The vendor I got my L. klugi from was in Long Island, have not seen her any other places, and she had a markedly different inventory than everyone else, fewer...

I understand the difficulty. The part that kills me the most is that I do have the budget to pay for sexed female juvie and adults and yet I still almost never see them. I was thrilled to drop $200+ on my female L. klugi (which I just added new photos of :) ). If I had room for one more I would...

Exploring her new enclosure. Approx. 7" legspan

This is a good point to reiterate as well. You should not be keeping your personal files, especially things like important photos you have taken, on your desktop. You need to have a separate storage system of some type. That way you can format your local computer, replace hard drives, install...

for the past couple days now, I was certain that my B. smithii was in pre-molt due to her dark black skin on her butt. Then I went to give her some extra water today and she angrily kicked a ton of hairs and revealed that it was just her hairs I was looking at, as her new bald patch is pale...

revisiting this, having been to the expos around NY a few more times, I am still surprised at how few juvie and adult tarantulas I see available. Pretty much all the vendors have only tiny little slings in stock. The few adults are mostly wild caught. There's a weird gap in age ranges, its as if...

Yes my B. smithii has been chewing on the screen lid of her tank for a long time now, I am finally getting around to replacing the tank completely but so far I have had to apply like 4 windows-screen-repair-kits to the lid. Never using a screen lid again for tarantulas! And this is metal screen...

I too have a small hoarde of Velvia 100 120 in the fridge. Some of the most beautiful film I ever used. Such a shame the EPA blocked its import to the USA! i also am a huge fan of film photography and prefer to shoot film, especially b&w, over digital, but I have taken a looong hiatus from it...

I do not bother trying to organize the digital image files on my computers' drives. I honestly think its a waste of time. My usual workflow is to sync (not "copy", I use the `rsync` program built into macOS and Linux) the SD card from my digital camera (Sony A6500) to a storage volume (shared...

For phone photography, some thoughts; - understand general photography first. A firm understanding of the "exposure triangle" is a must. Without this, you are just clicking buttons blindly hoping to get lucky. Understand what ISO, aperture, and shutter speed are, and how they each influence the...

sorry if you already answered this question but, how do you know its not dead??

I found some of the notes included with the tanks listed on this page to be pretty helpful for this as well https://www.thetarantulacollective.com/supplies

These? https://www.tarantulacribs.com/terrestrial-enclosures I saw them, along with other acrylic knock-offs, but none of them seemed large enough for a full sized Lasiodora bird eater species