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to the group and T keeping.
I’ve been basically lurking on this site for quite a while and now that I see a run on lurkers coming out of the dark I figured I would join in and tell my story:
It started innocently enough, in December 02, when I decided to give in to my son (7) who wanted a spider (thanks to the Spider-man movie) and had earned it at school (a long story). Anyway, I did my research and ordered a few s’lings from Swift. The first batch included a 1” B. smithi, a ¼” E. campestratus, a ¼” A. geniculata and of course the ¼” freebie B. albopilosum. This was enough…for about a week. Then came the 4.5” G. rosea from Petco (I know, I know). It was a beautiful specimen and really inexpensive. To keep a long story short, over the course of about the next month later things got really hairy and we added the following specimens: 2” T. blondi, ½” P. irminia, ¾” C. cyaneopubescens. ¾” A. seemanni, ¾” A. avicularia, 1/8” Ahonopelma sp., 4” female E. campestratus, and a 3.5” female red-phase G. rosea. Not to mention the Emperor and Dune Scorps (but that’s another section of this site).
We keep these all in either critter keepers or beanie baby type enclosures with bed-a-beast and spangum moss substrate within a larger cabinet that we bought at Ikea. And, we have decided to basically (almost) never handle them (half out of fear/respect and the other half because it is detrimental to the T).
I should say we have learned a ton from the content on this site (my son loves the pics) and hope to be able to contribute from my own experiences in time.
That being said, I have one important question: Does the craving to add more s’lings to your collections ever end? I just don’t find myself able to stop thinking about what I want next (Andrew, my son, wants an Orange Bitey Thing and I want a Cobalt).
Looking forward to sharing more in the future.
(sorry for the long post)
Jeff
I’ve been basically lurking on this site for quite a while and now that I see a run on lurkers coming out of the dark I figured I would join in and tell my story:
It started innocently enough, in December 02, when I decided to give in to my son (7) who wanted a spider (thanks to the Spider-man movie) and had earned it at school (a long story). Anyway, I did my research and ordered a few s’lings from Swift. The first batch included a 1” B. smithi, a ¼” E. campestratus, a ¼” A. geniculata and of course the ¼” freebie B. albopilosum. This was enough…for about a week. Then came the 4.5” G. rosea from Petco (I know, I know). It was a beautiful specimen and really inexpensive. To keep a long story short, over the course of about the next month later things got really hairy and we added the following specimens: 2” T. blondi, ½” P. irminia, ¾” C. cyaneopubescens. ¾” A. seemanni, ¾” A. avicularia, 1/8” Ahonopelma sp., 4” female E. campestratus, and a 3.5” female red-phase G. rosea. Not to mention the Emperor and Dune Scorps (but that’s another section of this site).
We keep these all in either critter keepers or beanie baby type enclosures with bed-a-beast and spangum moss substrate within a larger cabinet that we bought at Ikea. And, we have decided to basically (almost) never handle them (half out of fear/respect and the other half because it is detrimental to the T).
I should say we have learned a ton from the content on this site (my son loves the pics) and hope to be able to contribute from my own experiences in time.
That being said, I have one important question: Does the craving to add more s’lings to your collections ever end? I just don’t find myself able to stop thinking about what I want next (Andrew, my son, wants an Orange Bitey Thing and I want a Cobalt).
Looking forward to sharing more in the future.
(sorry for the long post)
Jeff