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It's a complete mystery why someone would avoid this stimulating interaction.

This. The biggest reason that warrants two or more roach colonies is that roaches are great.

See? Can't beat the beetles. :lol: That feeding platform is pretty nifty though. I need to read further.

Exactly this. I have roaches. I almost like roaches better than tarantulas. But for the OP's parameters very little beats the basic requirements of mealworms. I only stopped breeding them myself when the frass started giving me hay-fever symptoms. I breed morio worms now. A little bit more...

I'm very, very late, but the things you stumble across when you're looking up the effects of iodine on inverts... It's Guy Tansley. The man was travelling the world to study tarantulas in their natural environments before you were probably out of diapers.

Latin. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bolus You may not swallow eight spiders a year, but you swallow several boli every day.

What the hell was this supposed to achieve?

Really like those Dolomedes setups. How do you change or clean the water?

I searched for photos of these last year but turned up nothing except a victorian naturalist's watercolour illustration. Kicking myself that they were right here under my nose! They look fantastic, the colours are excellent.

Guys, guys, I found this great site with all these funny characters on it. You really ought to see it. Look at this one, for example. Or this one.

Barring the exo-terra mods, nice setup. Makes me nostalgic. Like I said in the other thread, I had a couple of these as my first Ts. Not a good example to imitate, but if those two thrived under my tender and ignorant ministrations, I might say the species is bulletproof! And yes, wicked fast...

Four. First, a pair of Psalmopoeus cambridgei slings. The kind of nooby decision that gives AB regulars heart palpitations. Fast and bolty. Fortunately I learned the 'no touchy' rule before they got much bigger, and they matured into big, relatively sedate females. Even managed to get a male and...

I like this a lot. It's a real forehead-slapping 'of course!' moment, considering how many tarantulas and other pet arachnids burrow alongside the container side. Not to mention how many bugs you find when you flip a rock... Floralcraft dry foam: judging from their website it seems to be...

Looks very neat. I've been looking at all the jars of protein shake stuff you get in the shops these days, thinking "man, if that plastic was clear I could keep a heck of a big pokie in that".

This is something I thought about lately. Turns out a local pet supply shop, that I hadn't much considered in the past, sells livefood. It would be more convenient but with only 1 tarantula, would it be more cost effective? Because... Pets at Home will rob you of £2.75 for a whole box. Single...

I've never been bitten by any T or other spider in my care. When I was younger my sisters' hamsters and gerbils bit me all the time, though. True. Both are small, hairy, and are hands-off 'cos you'll drop them when they bite you...

Yup. I got a set of extension tubes to stick between a Lumix micro 4/3 camera and a 75-200mm telephoto lens: a shoestring option 'til I feel I can comfortably afford a genuine macro lens. (And because that money is going on a telephoto lens with a wide enough f-stop for decent long-range shots...

Finding a substrate with the consistency but not the weight of clay might be a bit optimistic! I don't hope to hit on something miraculous or to wow veteran spider keepers, just to goldilocks something that my spider (and future spiders) might be comfortable on. And in. True, true! I've been...

Not a T, but I once had a small juvie Heteropoda dart out of it's container and vanish like morning mist. I came back from a holiday a few weeks later and found it perched on top of the goldfish tank, a bit wobbly from hunger and thirst but still chugging.

Great spiders! So much character in a tiny package. Nice use of GIFs. I just started noticing the local S. scenicus darting about. I wondered how people kept this genus. (Assuming you have these spiders in your care, rather than going on a backyard safari.)