My new T

[nolan]

Yesterday i found an e. Campestratus at my local pet store now i have read about them and read that they are very docile i don't think docile beegins to explain how calm this t is lol I don't handle my T's cause i think it stresses them but this thing is so calm and chill its hard to get to move anywhere even if you scoot her with your hand she just stands there no threat display no kicking hairs or anything i also have a g. Rosea and an L. Parahybana the parahybana is slightly evil she kicks hairs and strikes at the slightest disturbance and even the rosea has shown threat posture and kicked hairs lol

 

[CFleming]

Congrats on the new addition. I recieved two E. campestratus slings yesterday. They are tiny. One just sits in its vial the other has started to dig. The lil thing has been busy working all night. Got a nice burrow started. Even my slings are extremly docile. It was hard to rehouse them only because they wouldnt move. lol Pretty cool little spiders imo.

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

Genus name is capitalized, not species.

E. campestratus
G. rosea
L. parahybana

 

[grayzone]

yeah, i hear ya about docile. i got an E. campestratus (P.Z.B.) the other day , amongst others, and that lil t barely moves at all lol . at first i thought it was gonna die because it didnt even respond to a brush while shooing him to his deli cup when i rehoused it, so i had to put it in my hand and manually move it. it was a big step for me lol, as its the first time i ever handled a t. good thing its a lil bigger than a pin head cricket lol, or i might have been more hesitant ( im gettin over arachnophobia) maybe if i DO DECIDE to become a t handler this lil one will be the one i do it with today will be the 1st attempt to feed so well see if THAT livens him up

 

[FrostyCakee]

I want a E. campestratus so badly. I saw one at my local pet shop but they are a bit pricey there, but im still going to get her when i get the money, because the people there are retarded, they had a P. scofa listed as an emperor scorpian :wall:

 

[nolan]

I don't think mine was too pricey she is close to 3 inches i got her for 60 dollars from what i have seen on the internet for same size thats about same price minus the shipping lol

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Although the people at the store have no idea what they're doing they had the poor thing in woodchips and no fresh water just a wet paper towel for a spider thats close to 3 inches lol if i had the money i would have bought all there t's to get them out of those conditions

 

[k2power]

Why does everyone have to correct the way people refer to species on this board. I see it all the time and get sick of it. I get the impression that some people just lurk the boards so they can criticize others. Common names are acceptable as are latin names in referring to many species. In some cases the latin name is the only one in use that refers to a given species. If so, use it. If not who cares what is used. If the common name used is not clear then clarification should be made. If I wanted to really be a jackleg I would say that everyone needs to spell out the entire species name first in the post and only after that is it proper to abbreviate any time the name is repeated. Also no one is italicizing the scientific name or its abbreviation. That is standard procedure in scientific nomenclature too. So it should be

L. parahybana
G. rosea

(If the reply italicized above)

But really who cares if some one doesn't do it in the proper scientific format. We are NOT reviewing a scientific paper. In the end it doesn't matter as long as the information being communicated gets through. Stop being so critical. It is just a hobby.

 

[toast4nat]

But really who cares if some one doesn't do it in the proper scientific format. We are NOT reviewing a scientific paper. In the end it doesn't matter as long as the information being communicated gets through. Stop being so critical. It is just a hobby.

Here here! :clap:

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

@k2power

Simply pointing out how it should be to help educate them so they can pick up on it. Besides, why do it the wrong way? If someone continues to do it the wrong way, and no one corrects them, they will continue. And better to get it pointed out now before someone else gets on to them worse than what I did. And for one, read my post, was there anything to even get all offensive over?


Correcting them is something called constructive criticism. Your little rant was uncalled for and wherever you got the idea that common names are as acceptable as scientific is beyond me.

 

[k2power]

No, the tone often found here is not constructive criticism. It is merely criticism on an elitist scale and that turns people away. I don't think it will turn folks away from the hobby, just the board. And you are wrong about common vs. scientific names. The entire ornithology field uses standardized common names that the International Ornithologists Union approves. Granted these sometime change but in an official manner. Standardization reduces the confusion when names change and the common names for some species do change on occasion.

Some of this is already happening in Theraphosidae arachnology. Common names of many species have already become standard: cobalt blue, greenbottle blue, salmon pink birdeater, goliath birdeater, Cameroon red baboon, Mexican red-knee. In these cases the scientific name is just as acceptable as the common name as no question about the identification exists. In other cases like I mentioned earlier only a latin name is synonomous with a given species and a standard common name does not exist. Check out this site:

http://www.worldbirdnames.org/index.html

We need to stop being so critical on this site. The only people I criticize here are those that do the criticizing and tirading. My rant was completely called for and needs to occur from others as well.

 

[Chris_Skeleton]

So you criticize me for my first post? I invite you to look at my post again. There was no elitist attitude.

Ornithology and the IOU does not apply to tarantulas BTW.

I didn't even say anything about common names, but you brought that up out of nowhere. I don't have a problem with common names, but one thing can be labeled ten different ways when it comes to common names. (A. hentzi for example, and all other Aphonopelma). So the common names arent as acceptable. And no matter how many articles you link to about birds, that doesn't have anything to do with tarantulas. All I told them to do was capitalize genus, not species then you go off on a tirade about common names.

 

[k2power]

Frst off if you are going to criticize someone about their method of referring to a species you better be right. You were not totally right either because you did not italicize. I was critical of you for criticizing someone else. You had nothing constructive in your first post but "Hey you are wrong." That is my first point.

Second point was that in many cases common names are just as acceptable as scientific names as long as they are standatdized and apply to a single species. I never said in all cases and yes it does apply to tarantulas as with many other life forms.