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    Genetic Diversity In Feeders?

    I don't know if inbreeding in insects can arise problems to the colony. I only can say that during the last four years I am breading crickets, I haven't noticed any, even small, change in behavior, look, health and fertility in my colony. During this period I have never added insects from...
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    Water bowls. Are they really necessary???

    The OP's question was: Water bowls. Are they really necessary??? Definetely the answer is NO. What is necessary is the 'WATER'. Now is raising the question ' under what form the water must be supplied?' and the answers is few. (misting the substrate, offering preys regurarely, having a...
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    my tarantula ate calci sand. Need help

    Although rich calcium food may provoce problems in ecdysis, is rather impossible for a spider to consume, as food, any type of sand, because any food is firstly liquified and then consumed. Regarding crickets, you have to offer them alive and your rosea will find the way to catch them. The...
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    *** Is this normal- lol? ***

    It is absolutely normal, but you must fight it. There is no need to be scared of them as long as you respect them and the way they could act. Tarantulas are dispay animals and there is no need to handle them, so there isn't any risk to be injured, by them, if you follow this simple rule. With...
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    Darn Dog!

    What part of the leg was outside and in what direction? Couldn't the rest of the spider be outside the dog's mouth and now somewhere in the home? .......... Right now I realized this with ..decoration. I am very happy with the happy end of a possible terrible story.
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    Why is my T not jumping?

    OK guys. He is a noobie and is more than normal for him to ask things like this. After the first very good reply of Redneck, every other attack is not really necessary.
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    SNITCH - Say NO to irresponsible Tarantula crossbreeding and hybridization

    No, I am saying what I have already mentioned. "The only hope to this is to reuse the intelligence, used to create such a morph, to heal the wounds if any". I think, this isn't a give up statement.
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    T. Blondi rescue mission

    You are going to learn more today. Not 'sneeking' but 'sneaking' {D Consider this as an attempt for us, who we are non native speakers of english, to help each other.
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    SNITCH - Say NO to irresponsible Tarantula crossbreeding and hybridization

    In my place we say that if you cannot avoid the rape just enjoy it. We are considering all the times if something is legal, ethical, useful and ...... without considering that if something is possible to happen will take place anyway. This is the nature of humans, we like it or not...
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    B. smithi sling help

    Here are my two B.smithi slings, the one in a commercial vial and the other in a hand made plexiglass vial. You can see, especially in the first vial's lid, the very dense mesh I use to avoid any entrance of intrusive insects.
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    How often should i clean enclosure

    I am rather fussy about enlosures' maintenance. Once a week I am cleaning water bowls and taking off dirts. This allows me to almost forget about substrate substitution (I use coco fiber). Every blue moon I am microwaving, for two minutes, the old substrate and here I am with a full functional...
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    OK, tell me not to do this, I'm weakening...

    I suppose that Ts become more extroversive as they getting olders. My singapore showed such a behavior until her last molt on October 2009 when she reached 6" LS. After that, she is ALWAYS out even when I am opening the lid for regular maintenance and feeding.
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    Food and Colours?

    This is what happens when you add cuttlefish ink into the water bowl of a rosea. :}
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    Hmmm weird patch on my Rosea

    I don't know, may be you know better what is going on with his practices, but I don't have enough time to investigate the history of someone who is posting here. Moreover, there is nothing good to take away from such an approach. The most you can have is quarrel and a lot of waste space against...
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    Hmmm weird patch on my Rosea

    Seems that many of us forget that the forum is mainly a communication mean and secondly a knowledge source. If I would only receive information is enough an internet search and /or a good book. I think most of us try to communicate even if the answer to our question is obvious or answered...
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    special locusts for tarantulas?

    In the past I made two tentatives to give locusts to my adult female B. smithi and to the even bigger adult female N. chromatus. Both they were freaked out despite they got used to eat big insects like madagascar roaches. I suppose that spines in hind legs and big mobility besides the size...
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    HEATMATS FOR Ts IN COLD HOUSES

    I think that temperature fluctuations between day and night resembles better the nature and probably is beneficial. Me also follow this scheme to save money as well.
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    shredded coconut husk mushroom problems!!

    I would add that our planet is a small and delicate ecosystem that it can make through small changes but suffers pain from bigger ones. Unfortunately humans have reached the ability to "accelerate the time" in terms of environmental changes. Millions of years of evolution are now substituted by...
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    HEATMATS FOR Ts IN COLD HOUSES

    Fine will be somewhere between 70 and 85 F. Lower temperatures will not hurt the spider but will decrease dramatically her metabolism and mobility. Personally I would use the heatmat at the side of the enclosure. There isn't any risk for her because she can anyway move away from the heat source...
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    shredded coconut husk mushroom problems!!

    I had also the same kind of mushrooms in a couple of mine enclosures without any problem, except a slight irritant odour (IMO) that i don't like. My only action, when I was stuffed of this, was simply uprooting the mushrooms for some short period of time (because they usually tend to...
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