Survey!

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Years Of Experience: <1
Ts In Collection: Just two. 4" female G. porteri named "DJ Fuzzers" and 3" female B. hamorii named "Spinderella."
Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100% NW
Extra Info: I also have a cat. She doesn't even acknowledge the tarantulas, but is obsessed with feeder bugs of every kind.

 

[nicodimus22]

All of my tarantulas have names.

All of mine will eventually have names. I almost always wait to know the gender first, so I'm not naming a male "Aphrodite" or a female "Big Bubba."

 

[Ungoliant]

All of mine will eventually have names. I almost always wait to know the gender first, so I'm not naming a male "Aphrodite" or a female "Big Bubba."

I have a male Muffet and a male Wallflower (he's a little dandy).

 

[Giles52]

Years Of Experience: Coming up on 1 year in August.

Ts In Collection (ordered by purchase date):

• Adult female Grammostola poteri named Winter

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• Juvenile Grammostola pulchripes (suspect male) called Nine

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• Unsexed sling Grammostola pulchra named Shadow

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• Adult female Euthalus sp. red/yellow named Spark

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Escapes: None yet.
Times Bitten: None yet.
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: All NW

Extra Info:
I'm not brave enough to take on any OW Ts yet. The next two on my want list are A. geniculata and C. versicolor. I prefer not to handle my Ts, but have handled my rosie a few times. My Euthalus is still in recovery mode from a stressful previous home where she wasn't well cared for, but hopefully she'll come around when she feels better. Also, out of curiosity, does anyone else name their Ts?

Everything should have a name My three are Giles, Wednesday, and Sebastian.

 

[MissHarlen]

Years of experience: 5 with NW, 7 months with OW.
T's in collection: 12
Escapes: 0
Bites:0
75% OW, 25% NW
Extra info: Despite my immense love of tarantulas, true spiders, and solpugids, I am pathologically terrified of being near scorpions

Me too with the scorpions! They just scare me to death.

 

[MissHarlen]

I am naming all my Ts after Adventure Zone characters. So far I have:
Hecuba - Aphonopelma seemanni
Killian and Carey - Caribena versicolor
Jenkins - GBB
Klarg - Cyriocosmus elegans
Magic Brian - Pumpkin Patch

And if the sexes of the spiders aren't what matches the name, I'll just rename them after another character.

 

[Marika]

Also, out of curiosity, does anyone else name their Ts?

Yep! Some of my other inverts have names too.

 

[MrTwister]

Wife and kids have been naming mine....currently have 4 individuals known as Orange butt.

 

[EmilzHernandez]

Lol I guess I'll add the names of all my t's

Grammostola porteri 1 (F): Velvet
Grammostola porteri 2 (F): Ivy
Lapropelma Sp. Borneo Black (F): Gohma
Caribena versicolor: Muffet
Harpactira pulchripes: Yakuza
Lasiodora parahybana: Mileena
Aphonopelma hentzi (F): Belle
Poecilotheria regalis (M): Banjo
Poecilotheria metallica: Kitana
Poecilotheria fasciata (F): Honeypie
Heteroscodra maculata : Diablitx
Pelinobius muticus (Susp.F): Nugget

 

[Nightstalker47]

Experience: 7-8 years.
100+ Ts in the collection, I haven't bothered counting in a while.

Escapes: Happened once a few years back, was an A.avicularia. I foolishly left the lid open over night and was greeted with an avic on the wall in the morning.

OW to NW ratio is probably about 60%-40%.

Never been bit.

Extra: I also keep several species of scorpions and centipedes.

 

[Charlottesweb17]

Experience 6 whole months! Yayy!
12 Ts
1 escapee (recaptured)
NW 100%

Extra Info.... you know you have a supportive hubby like mine when he's arachnophobia and buys me Ts!

 

[Blue Jaye]

Years of experience 16
I started with about 30 different species Ow and Nw
150 adults and juvies 50 slings that I consider mine. Slings from sacs mother of god so many.
0 bites, 2 grazes P.ruffilata and L.violaceopes.
85% Ow 15% NW
Escapes 8 all found and caught within 1/2 hour to 3 hours. None have ever left my T room it's sealed up so nothing leaves.
Named Ts only a few. Best named Ts AF X.intermedia God, her male Constantine. Af P.regalis Queen Rasha. Male P.met Raziel from and old video game Soul Reaver.
Really enjoy late night red light touring of my T room. Get to see most everything moving about by then.
My M.balfouri colony's are a super favorite.
I too like pie and ice cream

 

[viper69]

Just curious, I wanna do a survey of us hobbyists...

Let's make it like this...

Years Of Experience:
Ts In Collection:
Escapes:
Times Bitten:
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts:
Extra Info:

Add whatever you like under extra info, for instance if you're a breeder or if your collection fluctuates a lot, ect. Also, this is just for curiosity and fun and conversation so don't feel ashamed if it's your OBTs third escape today, oh and to verify, when i say escape I mean actually got out of your field and vision and you had to go searching for the T, not bolted out of the enclosure and stopped on the wall.

Need a calculator
Varies, at one time 30-35 specimens, but have certainly owned more than 40 unique species/localities
ZERO
ZERO
Not sure, probably 70-80% NW, balance OW. I find NWs to be more colorful, than OWs generally.

 

[Nephila Edulis]

9 years experience
Way too many slings to count with the recent eggs that hatched, about 10 adults
No escapes (yet)
was bitten by my first T
100% Old worlds (there's only old worlds here, my first T was an OW which explains why I got bitten early on)

Extra info: I always forget what I'm supposed to be doing

 

[grayzone]

Years Of Experience:
7 or 8 yrs

Ts In Collection:
Currently 31, at my largest the collection was 300ish including produced slings

Escapes:
1 unidentified old world burrower.. all i know was it was a mixed up freebie, and it moved like blue lightning. Got out in my kitchen and i never saw it again

Times Bitten:
Big fat zero

% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts:
Well, i have 5 NW ts currently.. you do the math

Extra Info: i had the best chicken fried steak i ever ate for breakfast this morning

 

[Sergic]

3 years experience

15 T's

Only 1 OW at the moment, so about 7%

OW. This will likely change after an expo next week.

0 escapes

0 bites

Extra info:
My cycling hobby has been suffering the last 3 years because I prefer to spend money on new spiders rather than bike upgrades.

 

[bunniebie]

Years Of Experience: 1-2 months?
Ts In Collection: 2
Escapes: 0
Times Bitten: 0
% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100% OW
Extra Info: i waited until i moved out of home to get t's, thinking mum would never let it happen. told her about them once i got my first, her response was that it was "sick as" and "really cool". i could've had t's years ago.

 

[mconnachan]

Years of experience - Fifteen - with an 8 year break so 7 in total.
Number of T's - Twelve - only 2 NW's. Will be 3 on Tuesday - G. iheringi AF.
Escapes - One - sneaky little B. albo - it escaped through a vent hole - my error.
Bites - None
% of OW's - 88%
Extra info - I hate Fizz-Wombles!

 

[mconnachan]

Extra Info: I recently cut my own hair, and it looks pretty great.

Let us be the judge of that! - LOL

 

[Ryan Reynolds]

Years Of Experience: A few months

Ts In Collection: 2 P. metallica slings

Escapes: None

Times Bitten: None

% Of OWs Vs. NW Ts: 100/0

Extra Info:
These are my first two tarantulas but I have been keeping all sorts of animals since as long as I can remember from black widows in Arizona, to Praying mantids in Korea, To Scorpions in Thailand. Now I'm in Ukraine with three sand lizards and the two tarantulas.