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okay so I looked them up and found plenty on the baboon. This was the closest I cold find to the one in my book, although the specimen in the book is much lighter and has an orange-ish tinge to it (better looking overall)...

I dug up a book on spiders I got when I was a kid (published 1991) and I found some T pics that I always thought were cool. The T's looked familiar but the names did not ring a bell, I was wondering if perhaps they were old names. One is supposedly from South Africa and is identified by genus...

Well, I guess mine is bechuanicus after all. I love the orange fringes all over.

check the Home Depot for hardware cloth it is actually metal screen you can cut and bend to fit the aquarium. You also need heavy-duty snippers and thick gloves.

I feed them to my argus monitor, who swallows them like pills.

The one next to the knife and the one on the motorcycle look like my adult female which I identified as bechuanicus, are they very similar to darlingi?

At 3" my H. gigas went 3 or 4 months without fangs (which I discovered after it molted, although I thought somwething was amiss) and barely ate for those few months, but she molted and fully regrew her fangs.

My H. gigas is a proficient burrower, and I've seen some pics of cool H. schmidti burrows

Alcohol will only work for a very short amount of time, to really preserve something you need industrial stuff like formaldehyde, but that and aything else that would work are very dangerous :evil: and are hard to get unless you are a science teacher or something. Check science supply sites or...

Actually, I've found for the best viewing, you should keep your spiders in the dark. I keep all mine in a closet, and when I peek in, I usually see at least some of my spiders out, at any time of day. I also think it keeps them more on the docile side. They hate light and I'm sure it stresses...

Yes! I see many other people have discovered the coconut. I think it is the perfect substrate. Every day when someone asks "what kind of substrate should I use?" the answer should always be coconut!

If you get a sling it will definetly stay near the ground. With a juv to adult give it some substrate and some vertical room and corkbark and it will probably use both. My adult has a retreat on the ground and hangs out up on the cork bark. I've noticed juv. aboreals usually will combine a...

Those are pretty much all burrowers. On a side note, I have read that H. mac and H. gigas are related. I have both and I don't really see it, except for the thick back legs

All I know is that I have never seen anyone, ever, use vermiculite for any kinds of vertebrates, so there very well may be something to that claim. :? However, T's have been kept on it since the beginning and I doubt anyone's has had one struck down by mesothelioma, so I wouldn't stop using...

H. mac is an awesome spider and is the favorite in my collection. I think they are one of the most beautiful and mine is out more often than not (I also keep all my spiders in a dark closet). They are aboreal and I've heard they are very quick and aggressive. Mine is an adult female and she has...

I use one of those adhesive heat-pads under a critter-keeper for my blondi. I have about 2 inches of wet coconut substrate, with one of those hollowed-out coconut halves for a hide (the pad is under that side). The pad gets hot, but the inside of the hide stays at 80 degrees, measured with a...

Does snake venom vary within species depending on locality? I've heard and read this several times, was wondering if anyone could give some more insight

I really liked the pill bug idea but a lot of mine got caught in web!

I trust my friend who gave them to me. I'm sure any big FL venomous keepers on this board would know him and his expertise. I know he would not have given them to me if he didn't know I could handle (not literally) them. Plus, if you are supposed to worry about the potency of the venom, why...

I think the standard for whether a bite is medically significant is whether the bite can produce systemic effects, and not just localized pain and swelling. If the bite from one spider produces a bee-sting like reaction, and the bite from another produces that in addition to muscle cramps and...