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I kept toads for several years when I was a teenager and I was completely smitten with them. They really do make brilliant pets and do great in captivity. They are also a bit smarter than your average amphibian, mine came to associate the terrarium lid being opened with food arriving and would...

Clean? I have only changed the substrate in an enclosure once (when it had mushrooms growing out of it) otherwise I will only disturb the substrate when I'm rehousing and I have reused sub if it looks/smells ok :)

Pamphobeteus sp. Ecuador 2,.. as that's the only species I've got and she's lovely lol :)

I'd say that looks male, but only because my female (same size) looks like this:

We keep ours at 22 deg C during the day (72F) and 19 at night (66F). So none of my inverts get extra heating, only the gecko.

Sericopelma rubronitens - Adult Female P. regalis - Juv Female H. lividum - Juv Female Avicularia sp. Peru Purple - Juv Male Lampropelma violaceopes - Juv Female Euathlus sp. blue - Adult female

According to the TKG, a T can poo when it's straining during a moult. If she's doing fine then I wouldn't worry, it doesn't look like most wet moult photos that I've seen.

Great cartoons :D. Very funny :clap:

We had that happen to the partner of a guy on one of the British Forums. She had unexplained eye pain and went to an optometrist who was able to extract the hairs. No long-lasting damage was caused but that cautionary tale was enough to make me careful around flicky Ts. Also, entirely BTW, I...

Thanks for the info, very intersting. Going back to the topic at hand though, tarantulas definitely do have a simple kind of brain. In light of this I would argue that if simpler invertebrates have been found to sleep then more complex organisms like tarantulas probably do it too, and the...

Yeah lol I was going to say! As far as I'm aware, all multicellular animals have some kind of nervous system and at least a very basic nerve centre which would count as a simple brain :rolleyes:.

Fruitflies sleep :) . There's a lot of studies on the effect of sleep deprivation in flies. So, if flies can do it I'm sure T's can too. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15282997 http://www.northwestern.edu/cscb/jcpdfs/hendricks00.pdf http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/11/56

Ha-ha, we told our landlady that I had unusual pets before we moved in! She wasn't keen on them but said that since she'd not going to be living there she couldn't see any reason why we shouldn't keep them. Told her about the roach colony too :D. They did ask us to take care that nothing was...

Euathlus sp. red. She's never kicked and seems a really chilled out T in general :)

It might also help to add a small drop of washing up liquid to the water. Many insects are quite water repellent, a tiny drop of detergent will take care of it and the bugs will soak much faster. I use this method to quickly rehydrate dried up moults of my spiders :)

You probably won't see anything on a really small sling but I would give it a go on anything with about 1in DLS or bigger. I've had relatively good success sexing my slings and young juvies with a strong magnifying glass. I don't so much look for the fusillae, these seem to be too hard to...

Yup, I agree with that. I love growing on slings of species that hatch out quite large to begin with and grow quickly (like Psalmopoeus, Pokies etc) but for slow growing species I always prefer to buy the biggest size I can afford. Just a few months ago I bought an adult female Euathlus sp. red...

I just leave then be :) I've never really minded them anyway so I don't see any reason to do anything when I find them.

A list of low-light terrarium plants :) http://www.stormthecastle.com/terrarium/low-light-terrarium-plants.htm

1. Artemis my Pterinochilus murinus 2. Sericopelma rubronitens 3. Juvie Haplopelma lividum