Introduce Yourself

[Opaga574]

Hello everyone! I have been looking at tarantula for quite a while, and have finally took the plunge and will be owning a Euathlus Sp. Red sling this coming Tuesday.

I am very excited, and decided to make an account on here to learn as much as I can and possibly make some friends in here who also love tarantula. I'm from Allentown, PA and am very excited to join this hobby with you all!

 

[Captandan]

Hi I just got my first 2 heterometrus spinifer about a month ago and plan on making their enclosure as natural as possible.

 

[AlexCraz]

Hi! Im from Paraguay.. I'm 18 and I love all animals and I like tarantulas. But I've always wanted a scorpion.. Since I was a little girl! My dad came back from the dry part of the country on Sunday and brought me a wild present! A Scorpion.. My biologist friend said its really venomous.. But I know a thing or 2 about them and ive kept like 3 wild caught Tarantulas.. This babe has a potent neuro-toxin but im not planning on ever touching.. Always with tools and eyes open.. Soo..cos im this little guys new mamá.. Im Here searching for wisdom! Help for care and as the years go by..
Thank goodness he(or she) is eating... I it for a day cos he had a long trip.. And feed him today...

 

[SysAdmin]

Hello, I'm new to Arachnoboards

I live in the Philippines and I own a B. Smithi

Aside from tarantulas, programming (particularly in Python) is a hobby of mine

 

[WarGodsXIII]

I forgot to introduce myself, by the way I'm a newbie and I live in the Philippines!
I got a chaco as a starting T and got 3 obt's after a week. Just 4 days ago I got a Curly Hair weeeeeeeee xD


-SOULSEARCHING
-Jah Bless you goodnight everyone!

 

[Spodermen]

Hi,
I'm a 19 y.o. IT student from Poland. I recently started in this hobby. At the time of writing I own 4 T's of different sizes and spiecies, beside varying roaches and other feeder animals. I've joined this forum because I've learned much from the experience of other keepers and now I believe is the time for me to share my own, as it grows.

 

[SicSemperTyrannosaurus]

Hi all, I'm a 22 year old student from Oregon, and I'm rabidly learning everything I can before I get my first T! This forum (and the Tarantula Keeper's Guide) have been so helpful for getting into the hobby. I'll probably be spamming pics of my T here when I get it and as it grows lol

 

[Myria Hoisington]

Hey All,

Welcome to Arachnoboards. Please take a moment to introduce yourself. Let us know who you are and what brings you here.

Feel free to post a picture of yourself here.

This thread is for personal introductions only, please let us know what inverts you have here.

Hope you enjoy your stay

The Arachnoboards Team

Hi, I have been keeping tarantula for 5 yrs now. I currently have 17 of them. I am here to learn all I can about these wonderful little guys.

 

[Ken1984]

Hi everyone, new here from the Philippines.

My collection are GBB, B. Vagans, Chaco, M. Balfouri, Sp. Hati-Hati, G. Pulchra, A. Versicolor, P. Metallica.

GB

 

[Toxoderidae]

@CosbyArt Hey! It's Ghost_Keeper from the mantidforum. Welcome to the boards!

 

[8leggedbeasts]

Hey guys I'm back after 3 years out of the hobby, I can't stay away from these Tarantulas like a attiction I buy everyone I like or were my all time favorites. lots of new faces and hope to connect with some old faces. I'll be updating my bio and pics with my new collection. Thanks guys later.

 

[skullyoneleg]

Hello everyone!

I feel the need to start off my quick intro with a bold statement: I hate spiders! They have always given me the instant willies, and I would freeze at the very sight of them. My neighborhood is going through some major renovations so my house recently became hearth & home to so many different types of spiders and bugs that we didn't know what to do about the situation. It got so bad that we finally decided to call an exterminator, a practice I wasn't really comfortable with because I normally just let the bugs go on their own way- Live and let live, if you will. But the spiders in our home seem to be very resilient: the poison doesn't kill them. My exterminator recommended that we try to capture some of the breeds of spiders that we were finding in our home so he could work out a more species specific plan of action- so I set out to do just that. Within a few days I was able to capture two of the same breed of spider, which I have now identified as common grass spiders. I originally captured them in an empty and cleaned soda bottle, I really thought they would've died within a couple of days. But they did not die, so I felt the need to provide a better habitat to stay in, at least until the exterminator could return to our house and meet the little guys. Slowly something began to happen within me; I noticed I wasn't creeped out by them anymore and I was actually looking forward to the small moments when I could just watch them in their confined spaces. The way they go about their business without affecting each other or bothering each others amazingly built funnel webs, how they drink water, and how they eat fascinates me more than I ever thought possible! I have decided that I will be making a more appropriate, long term habitat for them, and have canceled my contract with the exterminator. How can I kill these beautiful creatures that so clearly have their own individuality and will to live?

And that is what brings me here to arachnoboards.com. My name is Skully, I am combat wounded amputee (Iraq, 2004) and a general recluse ever since losing my leg. This is perhaps what allowed myself to have such an extreme change of attitude towards spiders. My years of extreme arachnophobia leaves me blind to the ways of caring for these spiders, but I want to learn and my research lead me to this site. I look forward to meeting others with their own stories to share and knowledge to impart for my benefit. Hopefully there will come a time in the not so distant future where I will be able to share my own arachnid-info!

Be well!
Skully
"skullyoneleg"

 

[CosbyArt]

@CosbyArt Hey! It's Ghost_Keeper from the mantidforum. Welcome to the boards!

Hello, and thanks I saw your name on my T's ID responses as well, and I would have never known lol. Glad to see some other keepers on here too, I am keeping several more arachnids than mantids anymore.

 

[Captandan]

Hello everyone!

I feel the need to start off my quick intro with a bold statement: I hate spiders! They have always given me the instant willies, and I would freeze at the very sight of them. My neighborhood is going through some major renovations so my house recently became hearth & home to so many different types of spiders and bugs that we didn't know what to do about the situation. It got so bad that we finally decided to call an exterminator, a practice I wasn't really comfortable with because I normally just let the bugs go on their own way- Live and let live, if you will. But the spiders in our home seem to be very resilient: the poison doesn't kill them. My exterminator recommended that we try to capture some of the breeds of spiders that we were finding in our home so he could work out a more species specific plan of action- so I set out to do just that. Within a few days I was able to capture two of the same breed of spider, which I have now identified as common grass spiders. I originally captured them in an empty and cleaned soda bottle, I really thought they would've died within a couple of days. But they did not die, so I felt the need to provide a better habitat to stay in, at least until the exterminator could return to our house and meet the little guys. Slowly something began to happen within me; I noticed I wasn't creeped out by them anymore and I was actually looking forward to the small moments when I could just watch them in their confined spaces. The way they go about their business without affecting each other or bothering each others amazingly built funnel webs, how they drink water, and how they eat fascinates me more than I ever thought possible! I have decided that I will be making a more appropriate, long term habitat for them, and have canceled my contract with the exterminator. How can I kill these beautiful creatures that so clearly have their own individuality and will to live?

And that is what brings me here to arachnoboards.com. My name is Skully, I am combat wounded amputee (Iraq, 2004) and a general recluse ever since losing my leg. This is perhaps what allowed myself to have such an extreme change of attitude towards spiders. My years of extreme arachnophobia leaves me blind to the ways of caring for these spiders, but I want to learn and my research lead me to this site. I look forward to meeting others with their own stories to share and knowledge to impart for my benefit. Hopefully there will come a time in the not so distant future where I will be able to share my own arachnid-info!

Be well!
Skully
"skullyoneleg"

I bought my scorpions because they gave me the creeps. Like a live action horror show everyday. But, that was short lived now I see them as the beautiful shy creatures that they are. Now I'm thinking about getting a centipede to fill that need, lol.

 

[Kayota]

Hello! I was here a few years ago learning about tarantulas but ultimately decided I really couldn't handle that lol. I have since switched my focus to beetles! I came here because I attempted to join beetleforums and never got my validation email.. so hey again

 

[Marija Takac]

Hi everyone! I posted a few threads but I never properly introduced myself (sorry).
My name is Marija, 27 years old and I'm from Osijek, Croatia. I've always loved tarantulas and finally about month and a half ago I got my first , a 6,5 inch female L parahybana. She is gorgeous, a real sweetie. Not long after that I decided to get one more because one just wont do it
My second was a juvie G pulchripes and she was in premolt when I got her (think it's a she, still not sure). Well, I thought parahybana is calm and handleable but pulchripes moves in slow motion hehe and she is very docile (the moment she stepped on my hand I knew she is going to be my sweetie to cuddle). Thanks for having me here! Here are my babies

P.S. A few days ago I came to conclusion that two tarantulas won't do also and that I need a third... Open for suggestions which one to get!

 

[Khanti]

Hey everyone,
My name is Morgan, I'm 20, and I'm *somewhat* new to arachnids. I'm mainly a reptile person but I've slowly been evening out my reptile to arachnid ratio. Not sure really what else to say lol.

 

[volcanopele]

Hello all, my name is Jason and I'm from Arizona. I guess you could say I'm into my second collection of tarantulas. When I was in middle school and high school 15-20 years ago, I had a small collection with two adult female G. roseas, 1 Avic. avic spiderling, and 1 B. smithi spiderling. The two G. roseas were very different in personality. Rosanna was very tolerant and docile and is to this day the only spider I've ever handled. Maria had hate in her heart and is to this day the only spider that ever bit me. My two spiderlings died of bad molts. Rosanna escaped while my parents were caring for her while I was away for a summer during high school. Maria died of old age during my senior year of college.

My current collection started last year with a trip to the Tucson Reptile Show. My fiancee already had an AM ball python at the time so we were receptive to me getting a tarantula. That's when I got Porphyria, my A. purpurea spiderling (now juvenile). This year my collection has exploded (I blame having a decent tarantula dealer/breeder, Ken the Bug Guy, with a shop only a mile away). In May I picked up a juvenile G. rosea currently named Margaery (though I now suspect it to be a male, so it may get a name change to Loras). In August I got an LP sling named Tiny (apt name now, funny name later). I got that one as a "consolation prize" after seeing an AF L. klugi in Ken the Bug Guy's shop and getting scared off by the klugi's price and possible advanced age. In September, after having some money to spare, I ended up getting the L. klugi anyway. My fiancee and I fell in love with her at first sight, and I couldn't say no after all. Her name is Wanda. At this year's Tucson Reptile Show, I went with the intention of picking up a GBB if I could find one. I ended up getting a juvenile female GBB (named Melisandre)... as well as a juvenile N. chromatus (named Cersei right now, but it is a suspect male so it may get a name change to Jaime). Finally, I got a Tapinauchenius sp. Caribbean Diamond sling at Ken the Bug Guy's shop just the other day. That one does not have a name quite yet. Perhaps "Usain/Shelly-Ann"? I think this is it for me for a while. The shelves I got from Ikea last month are now filled, so until I get more shelf space, there's no more room at the inn.

 

[skorpidious]

Hi, Just joined. Have a Asia forest scorpion.

 

[DcubeD]

Hi. David from Barrie, Ontario - mid 50's, Ph.D. Organic Chemistry. Newbie tarantula owner. A month ago, I purchased a variety of 1/2"-3/4" slings for my 11 yr old daughter and 13 yr old son and I to raise.
2 A. versicolor, 4 B. albopilosum, 3 G. pulchripes, 2 P. irminia, one green Phormictopus and one T. blondi (the smallest of the bunch at about 1/3"). The versicolor have hammocked at the top of their enclosures and the irminia have made beautiful webs around a stick from the floor up the side of the enclosure - one of them has decorated it's web with chunks of coconut fiber substrate. All four albopilosum have burrowed, kicking substrate all over the place and all of them creating a 1" high mound over their cork-bark hide...I haven't seen either of them since housing them, except to catch glimpses of leg or abdomen through the glass while in their burrows. The blondi also hides all the time, but the pulchripes and the Phormictopus are very brave and curious as they tend to be out from under their cork-bark hide, sitting on top of it, most of the time. The irminia, pulchripes and the Phormictopus are voracious eaters (they eat whenever food is offered), but the others have only eaten once since housing them, despite offering live, and dead, meal worms of appropriate size.