Introduce Yourself

[dragonlily]

Hey all,
I'm Nadia. I live in Alberta. I've been fascinated by tarantulas for a long time but only made the jump to actually owning one recently.As i'm sure you all know one just isnt enough lol i now have 2 ts with #3 arriving tuesday and I'm sure more to come after that lol Looking forward to sharing stories with everyone

 

[Rex740]

Hey guys, I'm Jesse and I'm from Florida. I am actually a fish guy and breed fish but just recently left for college and thought it'd be best to leave the fish hobby behind for a bit as there won't be any room or time. My obsession with animals still persisted and now I'm into millipedes. It all started with finding some Narceus gordanus in a forest a few weeks ago.

 

[iga]

Hello

Hey,

My name's David. Just got my first tarantula recently, a two year old brachypelma boehmei, and a gorgeous creature she is. She had been behaving what appeared to be erratic (kicking hairs for no obvious reason, digging her ornaments around, not eating, wandering the tank more often). Well my suspicions were confirmed and as of this morning she is lying on her back getting ready to kick off her old skin. She made herself nice bed of webbing, and knocked/dug a small ornamental tree over to hide herself. As it is my first, I am curious to see how she is doing at this point. Anyway, I am sure I will learn a lot going through the boards here!

 

[Crickeylynn]

Hello

My name is Brandee. I have always been an animal person, but never thought I would find myself so fascinated by T's. I have two coworkers who have them, and slowly I came around. Now I can't seem to get enough information regarding them. My boss bought my a little Rosie this summer. She is my first non fuzzy or finny pet ever. I absolutely love her, and I am already looking into getting a few more. Since I am new I came here to learn how to best care for them. I hope to learn a lot here.

 

[tazwy]

New to the Board

My name is Effie.
I live in Wyoming and currently have 14 T's. I am receiving a new one on Wednesday.
I am a KJ/DJ and wildlife photgrapher.
Love my T's for many reasons. The best being that none of the in-laws like spiders, so they don't come visit!
My favorite T has to be my Goliath. She is only about 15 months old and was a rescue from an irresponsible owner. She was stressed out and being kept in a 10 gallon tank that she couldn't hardly turn around in. She is now in a 54 gallon corner bowfront tank and is very content. Now we wait for the molt so she will lose her bare backside.
I will post pics later on of some of the T's we have.
Very wide variety and always looking for something new.

Thanks All

 

[uninterested]

Hello, my name is Mike Schultz. I am the keeper of the facebook fan page for "Spiders" and I like to update it somewhat frequently with spider info, random facts, pics of some of my tarantulas, etc. It's got over 11,000 fans so far

I am currently building up my collection by reselling some of the more common T's to pay for the expensive ones I want I plan on breeding some of the harder-to-come-by species once I get all set up.

A few random spider related facts about me:
-I have been bitten by Heteroscodra maculata and it sucked!
-I used to work for Outback Reptiles, and one of my jobs was to take care of all the spiders. I also was the one working the spider section of their tables at most of the shows- so you may have met me if you hung around hamburg or white plains a couple years ago!
-I once had about 500 Haplopelma sp. (black earth tiger) slings but I punched their air holes too large... The next day I had about 250 left in their containers. I never found any adult earth tigers running around so I assume the random loose geckos took care of them before they got to fearsome size
-I'm always down to meet new spider friends, so feel free to add me on facebook (link in sig) especially if you're in the pittsburgh area!

 

[Flick and jojo]

Hello I am JoJo and my sling is named Flick

I just received Flick today he is 1/2" big and is a Brachy boehmei. I am totally new to T's and afraid of spiders too..lol

I figured it's time to rid me of this fear and loved their colours so here I am. You will probably see my name pop up all over the place very soon since I have many questions to ask.

I did make a video of me unpacking Flick cause my friends thought for sure I would end up squishing it, but I already have my mind set up to not be afraid anymore

 

[Romantis]

Hi, I'm Connie from Southern California. I'm a college student studying art, primarily sculpture, and biology, mainly ecology and entomology. I'm currently raising eight mantids: three budwings, three ghosts, one popa spurca, and one creobroter pictipennis. I am hoping to get my first tarantulas sometime this fall, but I am having the hardest time narrowing down my choices. I at least know I want to get a green bottle blue for sure and either a Honduran curly hair or chaco golden knee or maybe a Mexican red knee. I love pretty much most bugs though and am always on the lookout for interesting new bugs to study or add to my collection.

Oh and I am also a new Star Trek fan and plan to name my future tarantulas after my favorite characters :love:

 

[Simple Man]

Hey all,
My name is Brian from Tacoma, WA. I'm big into ball pythons and rodents and I got the itch to get into some T's seeing a few pics and posts frequently from several members of our BP board. They post in the Invert portion of our forum. I kind of jumped head first and bought 3 to start with. I just picked up spiderling Aphonopelma seemanni, Brachypelma albopilosum, and Grammastola pulchripes! I'm pretty excited to learn a lot and get into this hobby a bit. I don't think it will ever be as big as my ball pythons but you never know About to get reading more info since my spiderlings get here on Friday!

Regards,

B

 

[choyadgreat]

Hi guys, name's Paul Regi R. Magdadaro from Cebu, Philippines...
Came across this site from my friend Mike who is also a member here...
I'm currently keeping one G. Pulchripes sling...
Would love to add a L. Parahybana when my friend Mike's shipment arrives next month... TIA Mike...

feel free to edit the size of my gigantor face pic... XD

 

[cichlidsman]

hi

hi all! im a long time member, but have not been on in a very long time. i have no t's left anymore that may be the reason why i havent been on in such a long time. but im thinking of getting into the hobby again. the longest t i have had in my position was for clost to 10 years(g.rosea). i tryed mateing her, a few times, but it didnt take. i supect that she may have been too old. this may be my first goal. to get a healthy g.rosea, and try mateing again. im from newfoundland, canada. chat soon

 

[bobbibink]

hello from upstate ny

i am currently tending to 7 tarantulas and have a new sling on it's way. i bought a p. regalis baby from ken the bug guy and should receive him/her today. i am patiently waiting.....for fedex. my other spiders are from 2-6 years old and all doing well. i am keeping a mexican red rump, mexican red knee, mexican red leg, 2 pink toes---avic. avicularia, avic. versicolor, a rosey and a p.murinus <---a beauty !!

so...hello to all of my fellow arachno-friends !

 

[Demonjack123]

New to tarantulas

Hi everyone!,

My name is Cody Sparks and I am relatively new, although I have past experience with a pet Rosie when I was 12-13. I have been frequently visiting these boards to help in my very first Avicularia, and I am not cutting any corners either! Spending as much money as I can for a nice enclosure, and decour and even a blue light to examine them at night and give them a nice moonlight glow.

 

[zumbul91]

Hi everyone

I'm Budo from Jesenice / Slovenia.
I got my firs T a year ago, now I have 5 I would like to share my fotos and videos with you, and learn from your experiences...

 

[sebae]

Hello form belgium

Hello everyone,

I'm Jonathan from Belgium, 27 yrs, living in the flemish speaking part of the country.
Kept some T's in the past and now decided they had to come back so now restarded very calmly with a G. rosea and a B. boehmei.
Wy did i register?
Because I want to know as much as i can about my spiders so i can take proper care of them, it's also good to know that when there's a problem there are people around here who can help me

PS: Any other belgians here?

 

[Kazahmish]

Greetings, I am Mike, originally from Bay City/Saginaw MI where I first started to collect T's but after 5 years I had to move and the new Landlord said NO to me so I had to part with them, that was about 8 years ago, I am just about to start collecting all over again, even though I have had some experience with them, I feel that almost all I knew was wrong in every sense so I am starting all over again.. I now live in Summerville Ga and help my elderly dad in exchange for a place to stay.. of course I still have to pay rent.. (darn) but meh... he was against my having T's but he warmed up to it
I came here from watching RobC's Youtube channel and he mentioned this was a great place to get info and stuff.. so Rob, if you see this.. THANKS AGAIN MAN..

 

[deathkorps]

hi, my name is Joe. i lucked out and found this site not to long after i got my first T from a lps, it is a nice nutjob G.Rosea. i actually have two .rosea's from that lps the second being a female. i've actually been lurking on here for a few weeks before i decided that i might as well sign up since im constantly reading some pretty useful stuff. I was looking around the forums for what kind of housing a L.Parahybana would need since i've been gettin really interested in acquiring one, but really didn't find to much. then again i might not have looked in the right area since i'm doing his at work and have to keep runnin around lol. I'd appreciate any help given, also i prolly would have posted this a whole lot sooner tonight had i not gotten completely sidetracked reading the forum posts about dumb petstores. well i better get going since it's 3am and i am waaaay behind on my paperwork lol!

 

[SBCgeckos]

hello

hi my name is simon corado i own a b.vagans and p.murinus sling im new to arachoboards.

 

[ibcd]

Hello everybody. I loined a little while ago but haven't said hey yet. I've been reading a lot,cool site. I'm from iowa been around spiders &decided that I want some for myself.

 

[rich21886]

wat up

this is rich im new to tarantulas also i have a young g.rosea which ive wanted for so long i love all insects & animals & am here tp learn more about ts & plus the other boards take forever and a day to activate ur account so wats up