Introduce Yourself

[Lee Barkworth]

Hi newbie here from Manchester uk getting back into the inverts have nothing at the moment but will be looking to start up again soon

 

[BC1579]

New keeper here. I opened my collection this weekend with two juvenile female A. avicularias and a juvenile unsexed T. blondi. I plan on expanding with a GBB and another arboreal soon. The avics are living communally, but I may separate them just to avoid any issues.

I look forward to learning from this community and growing my collection.

 

[Amatuae Khajit]

Hallo!

I go by Amatuae/Khajit. I really enjoy entomology, particularly lepidoptera and theraposidae.

Now that I am living in a stable home, I want to continue learning everything I can and hopefully re-start a personal collection of both live and preserved specimens. ᙙᙖ ᙙᙖ ᙙᙖ

 

[Lil Paws]

Hello,

I am Jane. Before kids, I've owned other exotic pets, but my most experience with invertebrates was breeding Death's Head roaches as feeders for my bearded dragon and keeping glass shrimp with our fish.

I have been afraid-but-fascinated by spiders most of my life, but my curiosity got the better of me last week when I saw a viral of closeups of spider feet. We ended up looking up more information about Ts, and I was pleasantly surprised how low-maintenance they are for such an intriguing animal. We ordered a Costa Rican Curly Hair sling who will be here next week, and she/he will live in our classroom (we homeschool). We're very excited, and we are planning a trip to our local craft store to look at baseball/softball display cases as possible enclosures.

 

[PinkT]

Since taking care my daughter's PinkToe, I decided to venture further and wanted also my own T's.

At a local Reptile show after doing some research, I decided on a Avicularia versicolor sling and a Grammostola Iheringi female.

Finding them addicting and fascinating to watch when they are not in pet rock mode.

Here for the ride...to learn and share thoughts, ideas, learn from my peers.

 

[Leov64]

Hello new to.this site and to keeping spiders
My carebena visicolor is dark and not feeding much is she starting to get ready to moult
Only had her for 5 days

 

[vwcorrado16v]

Hi all, I'm a new keep as of yesterday to a beautiful Brachypelma Aboplosum. Un-sexed at the moment, I got the inspiration to get a T after watching Petko on The Dark Den.

 

[Caprica19]

Hey, guys. Just got my first tarantula today, an Avicularia avicularia. I've had snakes, fish, and cats before, so I'm excited to try something new. I'm also pretty used to doing research for my various pets. This is my first time signing up for a forum, tho. I'm gonna need all the help I can get.

 

[Gemmyfer]

Hey, name is Gem, been a long while since I kept T's, many years ago I had over 200 adults but family life took over and I got out of the hobby. Easing in gently this time with some old favorites, N tripeppi (was vulpinus when I had them before) L parahybana and B albiceps. Also have a couple of trues. It's good to be keeping again

 

[Wout]

Hello,

My name is Wout. I live in the Netherlands. I'm trying to learn more about keeping and breeding spider. I hope I can learn a lot from all of you.

 

[TinaM]

Just joined. Have had exotic animals all my life. Just got my first T. She's a juvenile desert blond. I was looking at several species but didn't want to mail order and this one was at the Reptile Depot near me. I have 6 other animals, I'm a teacher and I'm retiring next year. At that time, we'll be living full time in my motor home. I thought a tarantula would be a good pet for a motor home.

 

[Silver monkey]

Hi
I'm Annabelle and I'm from Houston. I worked in pet stores most of my teenage years and never really paid attention to inverts at all other than what I read in some basic care sheets. My loss. My best friend loves tarantulas and speaks about them with such passion and enthusiasm that I went out and bought a sub juvenile female Peruvian Pink Toe and an adult female Curly Hair. I love them! I love them so much, I also got a Green Bottle Blue, Antilles Pink Toe, Gooty Sapphire, Suntiger. Not all at once, they trickled in.
As a hobby,I enjoy building/making terrain for miniature war games. So I'm excited to create simple but beautiful and environmentally correct vivariums for my babies.

 

[Chuck131]

Greetings,

My name is Chuck I am 56 years old
I am from the USA and live in the State of Maryland
I have always been fascinated with Scorpions
Recently I bought 3 baby Asian Black Forest Scorpions (born 7/9/2017) they are so cool.
I have them in separate enclosures. I have been giving them pinhead crickets and wow they are little pigs chowing them up.
I did a Google search (can I feed my baby Scorpions meal worms) and here I am.
Most likely I am going to get a Tarantula later in the future. I like Spiders also about 2 years ago I caught a Black Widow in my shed very unusual for Maryland
but she had the red hour glass on her little tummy but she did not make it. I guess the stress of her being caught was to much for her.
Anyway, glad to here and hope to share knowledge and get knowledge for my Scorpions.

 

[Aranea8717]

Hello! I'm Katherine, aka Kat. I have a female bold jumping spider named Aranea(latin for spider), and I am obsessed with jumping spiders, wolf spiders, banana spiders, orb weavers, and tarantulas. Saving up money to be able to get the materials to own a few more spiders, hopefully a female wolf and a tarantula(type yet to be decided). Does anyone know of any forums on jumping spider care? I have a few questions I want to clarify on.

 

[Ungoliant]

Does anyone know of any forums on jumping spider care? I have a few questions I want to clarify on.

True Spiders & Other Arachnids

 

[kingshockey]

hey everyone my name is albert i am a stroke survivor and lost the use of my left side so pleaseforgive my typos and gramatical errors no caps etc. haha i know there is one member with a pet peeve on grammar hehe any how i just got an acanhoscurria geniculata last tuesday which i feel well prepared to raise into a full on rumble belly thanks to the gold mine of info thats called arachnoboards so thx to all of you and everything you all have posted oh yeah i live in the san gabriel valley in los angeles county i live and die with every kings game

 

[Just let me look at it]

Hi all I'm Salem! Been lurking these forums for the past few months to gather info, finally decided to join. I just recently got my first scorpion (H. petersii) and my first T (A. avicularia) and everything I've learned here so far has been totally invaluable

 

[DeadSouls]

Hi new tarantula keeper here. After spending most of my life (I'm 40) afraid of spiders I finally learned about them by watching vids on youtube, yesterday I bought myself a brachypelma albopilosum who I have named Fluffy.
Looking forward to gettting some more soon.

 

[AW462]

Hi, I'm Andy. 39 from Vancouver BC. First interest in T's in the late 1990-early 2000. I have 12 T's. Mostly the common stuff. I've heard these boards can get really nasty. I'm here to learn and connect and share. No judgement wanted nor given.

 

[eggcellent]

Hello,
I have always loved inverts since I was a kid, I used to keep millipedes and spiders I caught in critter containers. Initially I did this without my mom's knowledge but when she found out, she told me to put them in the garage instead.
I used to not own or keep any inverts anymore, but very recently I purchased/won a few.
I have three desert millepedes and won a curly hair spiderling at a reptile expo I attended. As for my other pets, I have two cats and a corn snake.
I joined the board in order to lurk and learn from other members.