Free roaming T's?

[rwlangbauer]

arachnophobes

i had a friend who couldn't relieve himself @ my house because Orlando's (g. rosea) enclosure was so close to the bathroom. he now holds & pets Allegra (b. emilia). it took 30yrs but people are remarkably adaptive.

 

[crpy]

crpy,

If you look at lamella under an electron microscope you wouldn't see hooks. Actually tokay geckos have over 500,000 setae on each foot that are so close together they act like magnets. If I said the human hand is made up of cells, and someone else said the human hand is made up of skin, that is the argument we are having with setae vs. lamella. The setae are so tiny, that is the nano-scale that causes van der Waals forces. Do you know why a gecko can't walk up teflon? Teflon was created by humans to resist van der Waals forces. As you know tokay geckos can walk up other solids including glass, not by using hooks, but via nano-magnets. That's the small of it.



Peace,
kd

Cool, thanks

 

[ThomasH]

its probably not the best idea appart from being illegal as they could leave your house and ive in the wild, they would scare your family and any guests you have would never return once they hear about free roamings tarantulas, i doubt ur neighbours will be too pleased either. two of my friends have said they will never come into my house now i have Ts and thats with them in cages so if urs were to be outside of the cage....

It couldn't live through a northern VA winter. I decided that I won't use the Tokay, even though I really wanted to. Because it would absolutely suck that I would know that when I lost small animals that they'd be dead by dawn.