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  1. Mushroom Spore

    Leopard gecko help

    If you can't afford a vet, you can't really afford to have a pet at all, let alone a very obviously ill one from a chain pet store that will die a slow and painful death in your care. You should get the refund while you can, and wait to buy a healthy animal later.
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    My rose hair startled

    This is an incredibly bad idea. All it takes is one tiny, tiny stimulus the tarantula doesn't like, and it's going to freak right out. At that point it will either panic and try to hold on with its fangs, or it will fall and die a painful, messy death. :eek: So, er. Please don't follow his example!
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    What Breed?

    Size doesn't necessarily mean anything, "badly bred" (ie random backyard breeding and/or puppy mills, or possibly people breeding puppy mill dogs and selling them to other backyard breeders, etc) dogs can be pretty well outside the breed standard.
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    Cleaning old fish tank to house a Tarantula?

    This is relevant to my interests, as I've got a bunch of rehousing to do after I move and even weak bleach solutions give me a headache. Do you use pure vinegar or a vinegar/water solution?
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    getting a tarantula!

    Two inches above this thread we have a permanent sticky you may want to read. http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=5292
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    My G. Rosea ate a house spider?

    Unfortunately, we can't know that, and there's not much you can do about it now except hope that nothing bad happens to your pet...and punch your friend for endangering someone else's animal as entertainment. :wall:
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    Excessive Humidity

    What matters is that the tank is physically dry, they aren't like some desert scorpions that apparently keel over if it rains outside your house one day. :) As for how often to feed her, I suggest doing a search for "powerfeeding." Basically tarantulas are wired to eat food whenever they see...
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    This happen to you before???

    You may wish to read up on "nice guy syndrome" (this article is a good start: http://www.romancestuck.com/articles/niceguy.htm ). Also yeah, working on the socially inept thing will help you a little bit. ;)
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    This happen to you before???

    While I'm sure it makes people feel great to claim they'd ride in on a white horse and punch the guy in the face (in my experience no one who says that would actually do it), that wouldn't actually accomplish anything but getting yourselves in legal trouble. Furthermore if this guy is on record...
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    New additions

    Heat is definitely important, in fact if you can keep the warm end at 88-90F that's really preferable. 80 is about where the cool end should be. If you're planning to divide it into two square-ish portions instead of two long rectangles, you could put an undertank heater under the middle of...
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    Green Anole

    Because "its a simple anole from a local carnival. lol," right? My entire point is that that attitude is not really okay. The information would be urgent if this were a $75 gecko, I bet.
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    New additions

    It's kinda like humans - human females can technically become pregnant at a ridiculously young age, in some as young as 9 or 12 or so, but it's a really bad idea even in a purely physical/biological sense. Anyway I think most people say BPs can be housed together because they aren't as...
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    If tarantulas were pests...

    Came here to post this.
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    Possible death curl? I dunno!

    I've always heard that many Avics won't even drink from a water dish. Anybody with hands-on experience confirm/deny? I'm so half-asleep I might be thinking of some arboreal lizards instead. {D
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    Green Anole

    All pets deserve proper care regardless of how much the owner spent on them, I hope you're not implying otherwise. Anoles are not a cheap animal to keep alive, off the top of my head they require at least ten gallons of space and without UV lighting (and calcium/vitamin supplements like most...
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    House Gecko Doesn't Eat??

    I'm guessing the anole had internal parasites too, so this probably didn't cause anything, but: in the future, crickets should never be left in an enclosure long enough to die on their own. If it's not eaten in under 24 hours (or with some individual animals 12 hours or even "didn't eat it the...
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    New additions

    Nice tank! :) Unfortunately, two things: -You need hiding places available on both sides of the enclosure. As it is, your snakes must choose between feeling safe in the logs and raising their temperature when they need to. They're going to end up trying to cram themselves between the bowl and...
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    Ball python finally!

    This doesn't mean they can always do so. Snakes may be designed to kill, but prey animals are designed to survive well enough to not become extinct - part of this is reproducing quickly and in large numbers, and part of this is the fact that rodents have some serious teeth. I don't doubt that...
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    my T is always out at night.... normal?

    Correction: they look alike TO YOU. To another tarantula, between chemical signals and drumming behaviors and whatnot, it is blatantly obvious.
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    Chilean rose buried her water dish.

    Not even. {D Most tarantulas do just fine in a couple crickets a week, or every two weeks, or a half dozen crickets every couple months, or basically whenever you remember to feed them. All my tarantulas are pudgy and doing well on a diet like this.
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