Lame reptile exhibit

[SpiderTwin]

Today I went to my local county fair and was irritated when I checked out the reptile exhibit they had there. They had advertised they were going to have all types of reptiles and invertebrates. I was hoping they would have a couple of T's.

They ended up having 1 tarantula, it was labled as:

Rose haired tarantula
(aphonopelma chalcodes)

Of course I couldn't find anyone actually working there, but I wanted to tell them of their mistake. It's just so irritating to see people who should know what they are talking about, but don't.

I just thought I would share this with you all.

 

[MrT]

What was the price on it?
Did it look healthy?
Was it a Rosea?


Ernie

 

[Kali]

Yeah, I've been there too. In other disappointing news, our town opened a Petco an all that they had was an enclosure setup and a sign for a rosie, no animal inside the enclosure, however. Around the corner from this were some native species of anole lizards that I always see in my yard for $8.

Kristin

 

[deifiler]

Rather than complaining, the correct thing to do would of been to try and organise it for you to handle the spider side of the show, would it not?

I was meant to do a small one today, with a spider being the feature of a "guess the name of the pet" thing. Alas, british weather prevails, and I arn't willing to take my lovlies into the cold rain :/

Which was wrong, the common or the scientific name?

 

[rosehaired1979]

Originally posted by deifiler
Which was wrong, the common or the scientific name?

It was the Scientific name a Rosehaired tarantula is a G.Rosea

 

[deifiler]

Originally posted by rosehaired1979
It was the Scientific name a Rosehaired tarantula is a G.Rosea

Oh yeah I know, but from the context I wasn't sure if the guy had named a rose hair as an aphonopelma, or a 'Mexican Blonde' as as a rosehair. If that makes sense :8o

Oh spidertwin, I'm also a spider-loving-twin too

 

[SpiderTwin]

Mr. T:
Nothing was for sale, it was a fair exhibit. The T looked to be in good shape. Oops, forgot to clarify, it was a G. rosea, but they had the scientific name as A. chalcodes.

Originally posted by deifiler
Oh yeah I know, but from the context I wasn't sure if the guy had named a rose hair as an aphonopelma, or a 'Mexican Blonde' as as a rosehair. If that makes sense :8o

Oh spidertwin, I'm also a spider-loving-twin too

Cool, are you an identical twin? I have an identical twin brother.

 

[deifiler]

Yup. Identical. I'm nine minutes younger than him thoguh, how about you?

 

[SpiderTwin]

Originally posted by deifiler
Rather than complaining, the correct thing to do would of been to try and organise it for you to handle the spider side of the show, would it not?

I was meant to do a small one today, with a spider being the feature of a "guess the name of the pet" thing. Alas, british weather prevails, and I arn't willing to take my lovlies into the cold rain :/

Which was wrong, the common or the scientific name?

I'm not sure if I could have a part in organizing the exhibit, but I would like to do that. I am planning to go back and attempt to talk to the people who run the exhibit. Maybe I could help them with it next year, who knows

deifiler: I am the older one, he is 18 minutes younger than myself.