I don't recommend cross-breeding with any species. I don't know if it is possible but we would like to keep the hobby clean. You could use a humidifier but a splash of water in the tank works equally well. I keep my Chilobrachys spp relatively wet (about the same as Haplopelma spp.) I've seen...
A few months ago I started creating custom tanks and custom backgrounds, but it took a lote more time to build them than I originally had calculated. Here a few new self-build enclosures and backwalls
Holothele incei communal setup (4 incei slings)
Overview of the six enclosured I've...
ridiculous poll, why discuss this matter anyway. I'm off, I'm going to try and paint my Grammostola rosea so it resembles a Poecilotheria metallica, I'll post pictures soon.
Besides the awesome coloration of this pede, Steven is an expert photographer. This brings out the coloration even better than a lot of crappy pictures we see with flat colours. The whole discussion about painted pedes is a laugh and that coming from people with more than 30 years experience...
I've been thinking about this too, not for the purpose you want it but maybe for breeding purposes in the future. G. pulchra often needs a cooling period, with relative low temperatures for inducing eggsack production. I've heard of people using modified champaign coolers for this purpose, if...
It's a cool room, very nice set-ups. I'm against hunting as a sport, but in those days it was very much accepted. Museums are still stuffed with these things and people still go to a museum to check these animals out. I own a few stuffed animals that were killed before World War II, now they are...
Why don't you try a communal set-up with for instance Holethele incei. I know a few people who keep more generations in one tank. Nice looking spider which can live communally in a relatively small tank (it's a small sp.). I recently bought some Cyriocosmos elegans and sp. Bolivia and I've read...
I've a few enclosures before with sliding doors. I used a paperclip to lock them, but still two T's escaped. I found them and they were pretty harmless T's (Crassicrus lamanai and Brachypelma boehmei), but I can't afford a Poecilotheria sp. / Pterinochilus sp. or Haplopelma sp. to escape with...
I've been here for a while and I've posted a few pictures but I haven't started my own picture thread yet. Here are some of my pictures.
A few of my set-ups and tarantulas
A few pictures of myself
A few pictures of my kids...
For these few spiders I wouldn't heat an entire room but use heatpads instead. Place them between enclosures and you can heat two enclosures with one mat.
These are all the same size, I have a big cabinet in my livingroom that can house 15 of these tanks. The enclosurers are about 38*38*38 cm. But by adding extra height etc. The spiders have actually more floorspace.
It's also PUR foam but now covered with elastopur. This is a thick fluid which hardens like concrete. It's a material used a lot by the professionals here in holland to create backwalls. I've seen pictures of smithi's living in cracks between the rocks and under rocks in the forest. I've tried...
why is a male less perfect. In most species it takes a few years for the male to reach maturity. You still have a nice looking T, which ok maybe doesn't grow as big as a female, but that doesn't make it less nicer. If after a while it appears to be a male, keep it untill it reaches its final...
I have no experience with centipedes, but some tarantulas become lethargic before a moult. I've seen this a few times with one of my Grammostola rosea species and a Brachypelma boehmei. Some T's become overly active but the most of them act the same as allways.
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