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I assume you've already read my post in the Dealer Reviews, but I'll reassert: I had a very positive experience with Ken, and would not hesitate to buy from him again! Todd

Check out the separation between the prosoma and opisthosoma. I didn't even notice while I was taking the pic, but looking at it afterward, I was shocked. Maybe a lot of you have seen this before, though? I recently read a post here that said--and I'm remembering, not quoting--that a highly...

Here's a jpg of a large photoshop file I made to compare lighting conditions and camera settings. She was very cooperative, and hardly moved for the whole half-hour photo-shoot!

SWEEEET!!! brachymad, I think you win! Yeah, I know it ain't a competition.....looks like you started a good boehmei appreciation thread, aftershock!

Nice bug!! Hope you won't mind if I put mine up for admiration, too.

I found myself wondering about precisely this question in the not-too-distant past. My personal communication with Rick West led me to seek an explanation other than incubation conditions for the predominant maleness of my modest collection. That's all I'm gonna say about this issue. I'm...

Good points, Stewart. In the case of the so-called "hercules," I think we can assume never. And while expecting this from a dealer would be asking for an unreasonable level of certainty, I don't think it would be unreasonable for a pricelist or web page to explicitly declare any known...

Hi again, Kerry. What I gather from your last post is that I have managed to piss you off. I will abstain from further posts on this thread to avoid any further misinterpretation of my intentions. Todd

OK, I put them together in a cage, a little over a week ago, roomy enough for them both to have independent places to hide or hang out. I watched them for the first hour or more. They would be acting essentially as normal, then when they encountered each other they would both freak out and...

Kerry, that is a noble ideal, but sadly, one which does not ring true. I understand your underlying point about serendipity in science, and I know that incredible discoveries can derive from intellectual "wrong turns," etc. But as a 20 year veteran of health science research, I can cite...

Thanks, Frylock, for clearing that up. As I said, it's been awhile for me, and I'm no expert. I had forgotten all about brongersmai, and even reversed what I thought I knew about the other 2!

This is a reasonable theory, but obviously requires some considerable investigation. I hadn’t heard about this “disease” until fairly recently, when I inadvertently became the owner of the only surviving T’s from a collection in which condition was observed. I searched the boards and found a...

Hi Chris, I'm by no means an expert, but I'll tell you what I know (or think I know!). Bloods need HIGH humidity. Like practically sitting in water is ideal. The catch is, the water has to be clean. Most folks aren't into doing water changes on their snake cages! If they get too dry...

Voice of reason DE3, since obtaining several large females and eggsacs of some Hysterocrates sp. as a dealer in Florida in the mid-90's, I have read most everything I could get my hands on about this controversy. I'd also wager I've looked at more photographs of this genus on the web than I...

I, too, have never met a spider that wouldn't respond to me, and that includes each of my half dozen Stromatopelma calceata. The 'response', however, is not always something I would favor, if given a choice in the matter!

not good, buddy AAwwwwww, geeeEEEZZ!! I haven't been around here for long, but I'm almost positive such direct insults are ill-advised, especially from a newbie, and especially when others are trying to help. Also, I can't shake the nagging suspicion that it may be conspicuously feeble...

Hey, thanks for the link, Wade. I guess I hadn't thought this through very far, and come to the pretty obvious conclusion that one species would likely out-compete the other, eventually. If cross-breeding did not occur, and each was precisely neutral toward the other in all aspects, it is...

I did a search, for this, I swear. There has to be some info already archived, but I couldn't find it. Someone please advise, or link me to relevant thread! I have colonies of B. discoidalis and G. portentosa started, each in their own large tubs. I just obtained a few nymphs of B. fusca...

I just saw some pics on the subspinipes appreciation thread which surprised me: 2 or more 'pede's happily (apparently) living together. Some quick searching turned up a little about communalism in centipedes, but also warned against trying it with subspinipes, unless they were 'mutilans.' I...

Dan, it sounds like you should know about the literature, and I'm disappointed to hear there is so little on Scolopendra. I did a search of my own last night, and came up with 37 published papers on Scolopendra. 1 was about locomotion, and 36 were about venom. Roughly half were unavailable in...