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Hi y'all, I paid for a fairly large order from 03arachnids, Austin Spears as it seemed legitimate enough with reviews dating back for a couple years and a facebook presence. I ordered over 2 months ago and there has been zero response from the store about the order or when it could be shipped...

If it's dead it'll attract scavengers very quickly, vast majority of mites are virtually harmless if unsightly but some parasitic species exist, I'd be worried about those parasitic species if it was wild caught not really what was most likely a captive bred sling. All types of mites congregate...

Always!! And it's definitely better to have someone question things rather than not otherwise I would never learn. Dude soil and trees and plants (fungi) are absolutely life! I have a little bit of soil from my home village (north India) back here in LA and I planted a giant tulsi (basically...

Oh man that is a rabbit hole indeed! Regarding avoiding anaeorobic bacteria, I'm not sure if they play a more significant part in playing as T pathogens but I do believe that a more diverse microfauna is healthier. For the research regarding theraposidae pathogens, I would be surprised if more...

Always my man, it was a good conversation, and I learned a bit more which is always good, you bring up a good point with water and aeration, the physical act of permeating liquid as well as dissolved oxygen levels in the water and all that! Oh man, I'm so jelly, plant and soil sciences are so...

Exactly! There are so many different types of micro organisms and there's not really any research on pathogens that affect theraposidae, we DONT know whether there are more harmful pathogens in aerobic or anaerobic or whichever....you know what I do know? That monocultures or any environment...

Lol do you really think there's peer reviewed research on so many things essential to the hobby like breeding? Should we stop that considering most if not every person whose bred theraposidae has operated on conjecture? Obviously in the entire natural world there will be diversity in aeration of...

Absolutely the wild is not sterile and tbh nothing is outside of a clinic lab settings, absolutely soil pathogens and micro organisms serve a very important role in the health of the soil or substrate. The thing about this hobby, and science as it's more and more underfunded especially on...

Yeah up to 3-4 inches leg span, itll work for the beauty, add a layer of holes on bottom sides and some holes in middle of sub layer (not too much but still some) goal is increase air flow and subsequently O2 levels and decrease levels of anaeorobic micro organisms (basically to decrease...

C.versicolor, GBBs, beautiful new world, some basic info required but if you can handle a bit more difficulty than those are some of the most beautiful tarantulas and go through crazy color changes from slings to adults.....you can start with slings and raise them. I know some people would say...

Ah I'm not too certain if that avic you posted is an M6, or Metallica! If the animal was wild caught is there any idea about which location? One of the jewels of my collection, about a decade back was a gorgeous 6.5 inch A.metallica (A.avic M6). They are usually very liberally speckled with...

I've raised a bunch of cambridgi slings from 2i to adulthood in under a year so they're an amazingly fast growing species, beautiful and amazing eaters. I had one big ole cutie of a girl that was super sweet..... Have like half dozen irminia slings and a pulcher right now, was thinking about...

Tropical arboreals found high up in trees experience a completely different climate, humidity than something living in a burrow on the ground.

Humidity in an enclosure is directly related to the how wet/damp/moist the substrate is, size of water dish and how much airflow there is. There's also the natural ambient humidity of whatever locale or place your in but the little enclosures and containers we create as enclosures are pretty...

Enclosure seems big enough for the most part, the sub is super dry right? Is there high natural humidity where you are located? Chromatopelma usually web up these desert shrubs in venezuela, very xeric conditions, they definitely take advantage of webbing points and anchors and all sorts of...

Toxin lethality is generally determined by an LD 50 test, the minimum amount of toxin to cause 50% mortality in target population then standardized for amount of toxin/kg of host. So yes size difference is important especially considering a sling can be 50x less mass than an adult or more...

What wood does that bark come from? Some types of wood make quite effective pesticides (good for reptiles, not so good for Ts)

Thankfully with the future of scientific advancements and the vast kush advancements in just the last 20 years, I think I can wholeheartedly say that there exist concentrates that are arguably much less harmful to ingest than even flower! now we don't need to do butane extractions, you can do a...

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So jealous, that's an awesome addition! I bought a H.sericae that is cute but would trade for a diversipes in a heartbeat. Soon though.....