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Exactly. Many of us do live in houses which have lead paint, radon in the basements and cost thousands to heat and cool from being so outdated. These houses kill us slowly, just like keeping all species dry and too cool kills our pets slowly. Or at least makes breeding difficult forcing...

If you follow the news of the text and its history, you may hear the stories of how before it had figures and pictures inserted, before it was formatted the latest version of the text was 400 pages! Much of the material online was put there to allow expansive diatribes and some updating. With...

Sadly, the "ICU" exemplifies the many problems with the text. The exoskeleton, setea and cuticular waxes are absolutely hydrophobic. The ICU only halts or slows dehydration, but rehydration must occur via the mouth. This actually means the stressed animal is forced to suck water out of a...

Very observant Ospa and completely true.

No school like the old school. I still need to PM a few folks about the Tony siting!

For those of you who do not know, Poxicator is Pete, and very long term keeper, active British Tarantula Society member, and probably one of the top ten well-spoken writers on any forum worldwide in tarantulas. That alone is enough to support his well-researched post. He has well over 10k...

Advan nailed it, those are detritivores only, and feeding upon detritus, sadly that is in the form of a dead tarantula. If you toss a dead cricket they'll do the same thing, no matter how "clean" the cricket was before placed on the substrate.

The first comment period is over. Between all the facebook and forums, the requests had to have easily reached 10k views. The comments are up for viewing, and most of them do credit to the hobby, if only there were more. I suspect things will move along quickly, and this might come to...

Well being in Minnesota, with the strong breeding group, even if the worst comes to pass you'll still have access ClosetCollector. I've seen the request shared on hundreds of facebook pages, but as of right now there are only 162 comments. Pitiful.

There are four days left to comment. Currently there are just over 120 comments, most of which I believe were generated by the USARK sharing. Please take a second to comment, even if it's to say "Please allow for interstate sales should these species be ESA listed."

I emailed the helpdesk and was told the "review" process is delayed, but the comments are being recorded. DC has been under some serious weather, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to crush those servers. USARK has also jumped in on spreading the word. It's good to see folks speaking up...

Once again, what has occurred with reptiles has nothing to do with Poecilotheria. This is about the Endangered Species Act, not other issues. I do not know how to explain the difference between black and white better than that. Both are colors, both issues were under USFWS, this is about ESA...

Two weeks to get those comments in. Recently an "expert" on the genus claimed an animal changed from female to male due to stress. This was a publication and in a "peer reviewed journal". Anyone who has raised and kept these species knows more than that "expert". I just hope the hobby...

Did your questions get answered? At the minimum every hobbyist which could something such as: I have owned 37 animals from the 11 species listed in the petition. All of these animals were captive bred. I would like to request that captive breeding and interstate sales not be regulated...

In case you missed this, I'm bumping it up. The USFWS site is currently down, but at last look only 10 people had commented. For the record, if you bothered to read the post, there was a third party petition to list these species under the Endangered Species Act. The USFWS is only...

That is correct, ESA regulation would impact only the USA which is why providing numbers of captive slings world wide may support more open regulations. Demonstrating no impact on wild animals or drive for smuggling is the main goal of requesting hobby numbers. Biologists and other experts...

What is happening with constrictors is a Federal level problem and one handled by the USFWS, but it is NOT an Endangered Species Act regulation. We should be for being interactive with the government, even if we disagree with nearly everything it does. The two issues are different departments...

To list or not list is beyond what most hobbyists can comment on as they are not field biologists or other professionals with direct knowledge of the species up for listing. We are providing information to the USFWS which we are experts on, real numbers within the world wide hobby. There...

The ego of having so many years of ignorance is completely staggering. This is why older college professors, who actually have PhDs stop publishing in peer reviewed journals and switch to text books, which are dated the second they're printed. They just cannot withstand their peers in science...

They are two very different products. The coconut coir is the long true fibers (schlerenchyma) from the fruit of a coconut tree, basically it's chopped up ropes. Peat is the remains of entire plants, mostly dried parenchyma cells, like dryer lint. The two are harvested differently, which...