Tenevanica
Arachnodemon
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- Feb 18, 2015
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What's your biggest pet peeve you commonly see in the world of arachnoculture? Something that irritates you, but you still see it incredibly often? Now, I'm talking about little annoyances that really don't matter that much. Not husbandry errors that could result in dead spiders. So for example, things like "I hate it when people use those tacky human skull ornaments as hides." As opposed to "I hate it when people use red heating bulbs." Serious husbandry mistakes are for another thread.
One of my biggest ones is seeing people use common names along with scientific names on boards like these. For example "This is my Grammostola pulchripes (Chaco Golden Knee) names Rosco!" Like, why are you using common names if you know the scientific name? No serious keeper uses common names! Also, I hate it when people don't write scientific binomials correctly. Only the genus name is capitalized! The species name is never capitalized! And, can you please write out the full genus at least once? A while back I was trying to figure out what a C. elegans was and I could only find info on a round worm! If they had simply written out Cyriocosmus it would've saved me so much time! Finally, the last one is minor, a scientific name should be italicized or underlined. I get why you wouldn't do this for conveniences sake on a forum, but it will makes me twitch a slight bit...
So, what are your little pet peeves you see all the time?
One of my biggest ones is seeing people use common names along with scientific names on boards like these. For example "This is my Grammostola pulchripes (Chaco Golden Knee) names Rosco!" Like, why are you using common names if you know the scientific name? No serious keeper uses common names! Also, I hate it when people don't write scientific binomials correctly. Only the genus name is capitalized! The species name is never capitalized! And, can you please write out the full genus at least once? A while back I was trying to figure out what a C. elegans was and I could only find info on a round worm! If they had simply written out Cyriocosmus it would've saved me so much time! Finally, the last one is minor, a scientific name should be italicized or underlined. I get why you wouldn't do this for conveniences sake on a forum, but it will makes me twitch a slight bit...
So, what are your little pet peeves you see all the time?