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All this is good advice and here's one more thing to try. My doctor gave me a prescription for Triamcinolone Acetonide cream USP, 0.1% and it has really been a godsend. I told him about my reaction to urticating hairs and he said to try this stuff. If I itch I wash the area in really hot soapy...

I think a good name would be Michael Vick.

A Proud Termite. My homies and I eat homes. That's why we're homies.

I'm a termite and I'm deeply offended.

Kelly Swift at swiftinvertebrates has a variety of legally imported Austrailian whistling spiders.

Here's good info regarding them. http://www.amonline.net.au/sand/news/freshwater_crabs.htm

We don't have any legless lizards around here so I had to make my own.

Here's my solution - the neck and cap of a soda bottle inserted through the lid and glued in place. This way you don't have to open the main lid and destroy the tube web of arboreals that attach them to the top.

To Mr. Extreme: This is not meant to offend you, but to be helpful - if you would spend just a few seconds proofreading your messages and perhaps using a spellchecker you might be taken a bit more seriously and get more replies. Frankly your messages usually read like nonsense.

Sling food Here's a link to a thread I started earlier today on a different forum: http://atshq.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5312

Hissers - not just for breakfast anymore. I keep a culture of Hissers (Gromphadorhina portentosa) and several times have fixed a batch of them as a result of seeing a recipe on the internet. Oven roasted, they taste somewhat seafoodish, somewhere between shrimp and clam with a nuttiness that's...

My 1/2" N chromatus will eat cricket "drumsticks." I just yank off a cricket hind leg and most times a bunch of glop will come off with it giving the little guy a bit of extra food to eat. Then I never worry about the cricket hurting my sling. I get to feed two slings that way and the rest of...

When I started keeping T's I already had a good sized (200-300) culture of Hissers. I kept them just for the fun of it. Now the newborns are a good addition to the two larger T's (two inch) diet. As far as ease of feeding them I have to agree with what others have said. Even a caveman could do...

It's 1-incher and the picture on Kelly's site was what sold me. Esthetically, I think they're gorgeous. Can't wait! Dave.

OK, no more so than everyone else here, but I feel like I've gotten into an avalanche or an uncontrollable stampede. I started this hobby to overcome an irrational fear of spiders and now I find I've just placed another order to Swift's for more slings. My friends are going to have an...

Fine mesh screen. <Cerbera, i am hoping you can direct me to a source for fine mesh screen.> I have used needlepoint fabric for screening with great success. Cut it with scissors and glue it with aquarium sealer and you can make all kinds of items from scratch. I cut large holes in the...

My G. aureostriata did exactly the same thing and finally emerged last week with a bright new colorful exterior. S/he webbed up the front of the hide and added particles of substrate to it so it looked totally camoflaged. I couldn't see her for at least a month but it was worth the wait. She so...

I had a Savannah years ago and found that there was literally nothing it wouldn't eat. This made it handy for getting mineral suplements and vitamins into it not to mention a protein boost. My technique was a bit unorthodox. I would make it an omelette using catfood and powdered supplements as...

Thanks for all of the suggestions. A guy at my local reptile store gave me this tip: Put a small opaque vial or the cap from an old marker in the cricket container and leave it for a while. The pinheads will hide in it because it's dark. Then you just pick it up, cover the top with your finger...

Hi Folks, I was wondering if any of you have any useful techniques to share for handling pinhead crickets. I'm able to hatch them by the thousand but they are soooooo much a pain in the butt to collect, distribute, etc. By the time I'm done gathering a few to feed my slings I'm ready to throw...