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    Texas Reptile Expo

    Axsisdnied and Deadly Tarantula Girl will be vending:)
  2. John Lorbiecke/ Marita De La Pena

    John Lorbiecke/ Marita De La Pena

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    How to Kill Time Waiting for Slings to Grow?

    I just make sure to have plenty of spiders to feed and water in the collection. I started with around 15 slings and now have around 500 with around 100 adults. as the collection has grown, there are always spiders molting. I try to get at least three of any new species, then the chances are...
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    Salties as pets

    I would recommend a Crocodylus porosus. It is the best saltie a person can own:) You might try elytra and antennae, Orin Mcmonigle has amazing knowledge about most inverts kept as pets.
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    Camel Spiders

    I have heard that their feces could be toxic to them. I heard of someone who kept them alive for months by running a fan on them 24/7.
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    Camel Spiders

    Here in NM we have sunspiders. They are not as big as the African species, but they are a solifugid. If you have friends in the southwest, contact them and see if they can catch a few.
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    List For Le BTS

    I wish I was going:)
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    Size of holes for ventilation

    The easiest way I have found to make holes is a solder gun. You can get thin tips to make small holes.
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    Short list of things experienced keepers would like to tell the new guys.

    Do your research. Don't walk into keeping any type of animal until you have a knowledge base to keep that animal throughout its life successfully. I hate seeing people here posting animals for sale because they want to cut their animals down or are getting out of the hobby. Plan on keeping...
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    Fighting the urge

    There is no way to fight it. I am always on the lookout for more. Just added Oligoxystre to the collection:)
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    Roll Call!!!

    I thought so...:)
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    Roll Call!!!

    NM and Brachypelmapoecilotheriaaviculariaephebopustheraphosachromatopelmapsalmopoeus smithiemiliaboehmiauratumregalisfasciataornatasubfuscarufilatametallicaversicolorbicegoiurticansmurinuscyanognathusstirmiapophysisblondicyaneopubescensirminiacambridgei. That is one spider correct?
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    A couple more T's

    Wow, very impressive. Good job:)
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    Dead centipede! Don't know cause?

    Where do you live? If it is an apartment, somebody may be spraying pesticides. If your are providing consistent care to your animals and they are dying mysteriously, it is an environmental factor. I used to think that I was terrible at keep inverts because they would die in a short period of...
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    The OFFICIAL YouTube thread for tarantula care and husbandry channels

    Breeding updates from the Deadly Tarantula Girl Here is an update on breeding from the Deadly Tarantula Girl:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5NbmpaD8E&list=UUfwc4PypFAOIDBU9lfmHm2w
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    The OFFICIAL YouTube thread for tarantula care and husbandry channels

    Here is a video of The Deadly Tarantula Girl pulling an Ephebopus murinus sack. Everybody keep this thread going. If you do youtube vids, post them here:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iTeGDMx2lw&list=UUfwc4PypFAOIDBU9lfmHm2w
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    The OFFICIAL YouTube thread for tarantula care and husbandry channels

    Here are three new vids, just put them out last night:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVsV7WqZFFw&list=UUfwc4PypFAOIDBU9lfmHm2w Setting up regalis for breeding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9aJwgNfiGk&list=UUfwc4PypFAOIDBU9lfmHm2w Had a female do something interesting that had been...
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    Very Close Call with a Death Adder!

    I am glad to hear it was a dry bite. I hope as I type this that all is still well:)
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    The OFFICIAL YouTube thread for tarantula care and husbandry channels

    Have a new Choosing first tarantula vid. Here it is:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-bw2bUnqS0&list=UUfwc4PypFAOIDBU9lfmHm2w
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    The OFFICIAL YouTube thread for tarantula care and husbandry channels

    xirxes, that B smithi vid was cool. I have not ever seen one "hunt like that". They normally just wait till the food is close by, then pounce. Good job:)
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