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    At dinner, stop playing with your...arachnid's food.

    When i was young we used to race grapes. Does that count?
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    My awesome terrarium

    'green frog' is a common name applied to quite a few frogs. Unless you give me a latin name or very good picture I can only guess.
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    My awesome terrarium

    When those whites get a WEE bit bigger they may eat the little green frog. Also that charcol will be GREAT for awhile until all its little pores are plugged up. Then it starts releasing its nasties back into the soil....so unless you plan on digging all that stuff out every once in awhile I'd...
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    Feeding problem with Leos

    How are you housing them? Are the temps correct? Nice gradient for them to pick and choose where they want to lay for the rest of the day? If you are housing the larger one with the smaller ones that is not recommended and may be unduly stressing the little ones especially if it is much...
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    lockable cages/enclosures/shelving systems??

    All-Glass makes a cage called Critter Keeper it has a screened lockable lid. http://www.all-glass.com/products/cages/index.html These are sold at petco's. At petsmart there is the same thing under a differnt name i think its called something like living terrarium.
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    Long awaited violins

    Those are some neat looking mantids. Congrats on the hatch out.
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    Mealworm Substrate/Food Question

    I hope this is the right place for this. I was wondering how many of you who raise mealworms supplement thier bedding with something like fortified fish flake food. Do mealworms eat animal protien? Or are they stricly a grain type feeder? Right now i have mine in a bed of rolled oats/wheat...
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    Tarantula Classroom Project; Part 2 (w/ pics..)

    Well as far as escapees go these are flightLESS I emphasize less. They can still flutter around. They dont get very far and they are quite easy to squash. HeHe. You can always slow them WAY down if you have a freezer in your room. Just stick them in for a little while, not enough to kill...
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    Tarantula Classroom Project; Part 2 (w/ pics..)

    Do fruit flies work with slings? I've never bought a T small enough to warrent pinhead crickets... All my scorplings get D. Hydei flies. And they are 1900% eaiser to raise than pin heads...also once they morph into flies thats as big as they get....they don't keep growing. I'd be happy to...
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    feeding pics!

    HaHa. That first pic is great! My avatar has the same exact thing...wierd.....a H.Longimanus eating a dragonfly.
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    Bearded Dragon reading

    Now thats Great! I was going to wait till the show in arlington but thats even easier/sooner! Thanks! Erick
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    Bearded Dragon reading

    My wife wants a bearded dragon and I like to do a bit of reaserch before I buy a pet so I was wondering what you beardie keepers would recomend to a newbie as far as reading goes.... I have 'The Bearded Dragon Manual' on order. Anything else whether website/book that would help me out? Read...
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    whoa!!! Something STRANGE

    Out of intrest is there a reason for having a hisser in with your lobsters?
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    Artificial semi-exposed under-substrate burrows

    Bury a half round peice of cork or something large enough for the spider to fit in at an angle up against the glass/plastic. Put it on the side of the tank you'd like to observe. Make sure to cover the glass with something so that it is dark...like a peice of cardboard. 8 times out of t10...
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    european style enclosures

    I deal alot with US Plastics..... I belive these are bigger than 4x4x4. http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=USPlastic&category%5Fname=17165&product%5Fid=5651 They list one that is 4x4x7
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    Happy Couple(Cromatopelma cyaneopubescens)

    Just out of curiosity what kind of substrate are you using? Beautiful T's.
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    Help with leopard gecko

    Spot passed away last night. She had a tumor polyp scyst thing and she couldn't keep food down...unfortunatley nothing anyone could do. *sigh* Hopefully wherever she is now is a happier place for her.
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    Tragedy...

    See red X is all... *mrf* Terrible must it be.....
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    Some more pics B. Jacksoni

    I was bored so I inverted this picture's colors. It's of a male B. Jacksoni. This is of the same male pretending to be a monkey. :) Another pic of the male. And a pic of a female with kids. If anyone would like the larger versions of any these pictures...
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