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Busch Gardens? God I miss Tampa.

Come on guys, the ban is completely justified. Now everyone can rest at peace knowing the buthids wont be overtaking Ireland and eating all the potatos.

My most notable Crotalus experience happened when I was sixteen. I was in a cow pasture with a friend, picking... Well what we were doing isnt important. Anyway, I was kneeled down examining something, when I saw something moving next to my leg, just a few inches from my foot. I turned my head...

I'm no allergist, but the symptoms don't sound like any allergic reaction I've ever heard of.

Congrats Gene, glad to see you are still around.

well I was under 10 when I had the jumping spider in the matchbox....

When I was a kid, I used to keep a P. audax in a matchbox in my pocket. I had cut out the top of the matchbox and taped a clear piece of plastic in it's place.

This is exactly how I recieved my first bite, from a juvie A. versicolor.

Taming and training advice, don't have any. As for bite aversion, just handle with respect and only when necessary. Monitors aren't dogs. Don't do anything stupid, and treat it like the magnificent natural eating ,machine that it is.

Nephila clavipes

Where did you get them Gsc, I've been wanting these for a while but can never find them for sale.

Thanks venom, the spiders coming in on my cricket are identical with Thanatus sp.

I'm not even going to touch the venom issue, you can do a search to find all the debates and conversations that have taken place on that on the boards. What I will ask, is are you sure they are L. reclusa? We get two cricket deliveries a week from timberline, and there is a small species of...

I have between four and six of them regularly at work still for 29.99 sometimes 19.99 on sale. Petco gets its geckos from Gourmet Rodent, and due to the high volume of business we provide, they put all kinds of morphs in the boxes under the regular price.

How much is he selling them for and would you ship them to me for a small fee?

That's an Argiope of some sort.

Pseudoscorpion. Could have been from one of four families: Cheliferidae, Chernetidae, Chthonidae, or Neobisiidae. About as close to an ID as you'll get without further description. Interestingly, they have no tail, but the pedipalps have venom glands.

A nile monitor would hardly be a good idea, it wouldn't be long before 90 gallons aren't enough.

I neglected to mention that the "poultry mites" in question were traced to a gerbil she had bought at that particular Petco. So I guess either avian mites can feed on mammals, or the vet doesn't know his mites.

There's a Petco not far from me that got an animal delivery recently, infested with what the vet has identified as poultry mites. Unfortunately, they sold several animals before finding the problem, and a woman's house became infested with them. Her cats had to see a vet for treatment, and one...