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freezing works Most zoos that have invertebrates and need to use substrate/bark/leaves from outside minus native "hitch hikers" freeze those items for 48 hours to a week. I've not used that method myself (we nuke it!), but people I trust says it works well.

Well said Pocock1899!! Here Here!! Too many people, who were "outraged" two years ago when some well-known vendors were caught selling spiders from internationally smuggled stock, are now back placing orders with those same people again! And not just Brachypelma were smuggled, but several...

I think you should name it : "Jeebus"! (Sorry!! I couldn't resist!).

Three words: "The Container Store"

Actually, I was told there were many good reasons the older, non-energy-efficient Nocturnal exhibit was "decommissioned". Some of the older/sensitive animals were said to have gone to better, more private areas at the zoo. And the Brazilian Cave Roaches didn't go too far away...they are in the...

And they are growing up new spiderlings in the back keeper are!

Hey man-YOU ROCK!! I's so classy that you went after this creepizoid! For once, social networking for a GOOD cause !! Again...YOU ROCK!!

And let's not forget Sammamish!! HI Y'ALL!!

I'm also impressed with the civility being shown here...not what I've seen in the past, but hopefully this will stick! I'm still a little nervous of some of my larger faster species, my ONE AND ONLY Pokie still makes me semi-nauseous sometimes when he just runs up the side of it's enclosure...

Yes, habitat loss is a great, real, and serious threat. Often, this happens because the native people, often poverty-stricken, are doing whatever they can to survive-the judgement of the "morality" of this depending on if it's your own children who are starving to death. On the other hand, for...

Hey Hey!:coffee: I'm from Eastside also and am REALLY TRYING to learn some tarantula breeding techniques/ get some breeders. In fact, I've met a couple of y'all! Is there a local T-group?

As someone who once tried to move an OBT in to a small cup in a bathtub (in the Rio Rico Resort Hotel at the SASI Conference last year)....yeah, they can climb bathtubs amazingly well when the urge hits them, And three grown women and a teenage girl can also move amazingly fast when "properly...

Pokie conservation Placeboani2- it is so encouraging to hear that you are interested in Pokie conservation! I have recently begun investigating avenues of participation for the conservation of this disappearing wild genus! As hobbyists, we must remenber that we can be part of the problem (as...

generators? Can you not rent/buy a generator?

Great logic and a great reply :clap::worship:

Well Said!! Those were EXACTLY the points I was trying to make, guess I was too politically correct for those to get through ;>. Captive breeding is, of course, one part of the conservation solution as well as habitat preservation. But unless each one of want to donate the price of our next...

I really wonder if the point isn't being missed by just giving a "knee-jerk" reaction to the proposed listing. CITIES regulates the TRADE of species of concern, NOT automatically makes it illegal to own said species. The problem is that without regulation anyone can and often will pay for a...

As a parent, I understand the impulse to curtail what SEEMS like a huge number of purchases coming in, especially when times are hard. You haven't said WHY they feel this way, if you don't know why-that's a problem. I was most flexible with my 14 year old daughter when she showed the willingness...

Nephila I have worked with Nephila madagascariensis. The adults were kept in vertically oriented tanks with two sides fine mesh and two sides glass, as ventilation is equally as important as humidity. Fruit fly producing vials are simply left open on the cage bottom and replaced as needed...

This calls for a PROFESSIONAL!! EEKKK!! Quick- call Mulder and Scully to track this All-consuming affliction!! Or better yet, call in Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan...no, wait...she grew up PLAYING with snakes and T's!!! I give up! I'm (happily!) terminal!{D