Now I have seen your banner, you was stoned in those pics! I am sure.... LOL
Now I have seen your banner, you was stoned in those pics! I am sure.... LOL
My thoughts exactly.It doesn't look photoshopped at all, it looks like a damn good picture. Not a damn good idea, but a good picture nonetheless.
Exactly. In an ideal world, people would research the subject and try to understand it and the fact that there are responsible owners out there before writing to their senator. However, do I need to say we don't live in an ideal world?To each its own, but the more hospital visits for this sort of stupidity, the higer the chances for the gov to close down the whole party and the only spider youll see will be in the books.
So yes, go ahead and handle hots.
ThreadWell, here in Canada I can give you a list of cities in which tarantulas are banned:
Ottawa: (only 3 kinds of T's allowed)
"13 Arachnida and Chilopoda
(a) all venomous spiders including, but not limited to tarantula, black widow and solifugid, scorpion, save and except the exception of the following species of tarantula: Chilean Rose (Grammostola rosea), Mexican Red-Knee (Brachypelma smithi), Pink-Toed (Avicularia avicularia), and
(b) all venomous arthropods including, but not limited to centipede."
Cambridge, Ontario
London, Ontario
Bradford, Ontario
Barrie, Ontario and
Edmonton, Alberta
There are more, but I just thought I'd post a few examples.
Cassandra
I see what you're getting at but tarantulas do exist in absolutely wintry places. Much of the high desert in the U.S. is snowbound or at least frost-ridden for part of the year...places where Aphonopelma thrive. Grammostola rosea comes from an area that has downright nasty extremes in temperature. Could any of the hardier tarantulas become established? Hard to say. I do have a rosea that was found in January in an abandoned S. Seattle a couple years back:?Florida and Hawaii do make sense to me because of the year-round warm climate but what tarantula species known survives in places with snowing winters? I know Araneomorphae exist in places of different seasons but what about tarantulas? It's a genuine question because I haven't found any yet. :8o:?
You have it spot on.This is driving me nuts.
It looks "brutally shopped" because of something photographers call Depth of Field. There is nothing in the last shot that looks edited at all. The camera is focusing on something small in the foreground, which forces a very short depth of field. If it was shopped, maybe he would have tried to get the skin of his arm and his face closer in color and tone?
In any event, the first photos are great shots of an amazing spider. They showed us the beauty of the animal just fine. Handling an animal like this is nothing more than a serious danger to our hobby. Glad you're in Poland.
I see what you're getting at but tarantulas do exist in absolutely wintry places. Much of the high desert in the U.S. is snowbound or at least frost-ridden for part of the year...places where Aphonopelma thrive. Grammostola rosea comes from an area that has downright nasty extremes in temperature. Could any of the hardier tarantulas become established? Hard to say. I do have a rosea that was found in January in an abandoned S. Seattle a couple years back:?
>Grammostola rosea comes from an area that has downright nasty extremesI see what you're getting at but tarantulas do exist in absolutely wintry places. Much of the high desert in the U.S. is snowbound or at least frost-ridden for part of the year...places where Aphonopelma thrive. Grammostola rosea comes from an area that has downright nasty extremes in temperature. Could any of the hardier tarantulas become established? Hard to say. I do have a rosea that was found in January in an abandoned S. Seattle a couple years back:?
Yes.So is she just coated head-to-toe with dust or is some of that natural coloration/camouflage?
http://legacy.lclark.edu/org/spidylab/objects/Duncan_etal_2007.pdf said:The same may be true for Sicarius and Homalonychus, which both possess densely distributed setae (Chamberlin 1916; Roth 1984) with which
fine particles associate (Levi & Levi 1969; Roth 1984; figure 1).
(Chars)The sand remains attached for a long time and transforms their body colour to match the background substrate, resulting in remarkable concealment in their native habitats (figure 1a).
Their setae are designed to catch and retain dust/ sand particles.So is she just coated head-to-toe with dust or is some of that natural coloration/camouflage?
with this in mind, patiance, and timing, would it not be possible to use some of those florescent died sands, to create a rainbow specimen after a molt?Their setae are designed to catch and retain dust/ sand particles.
LOL!!! I would LOVE to see that, oh my goodness. That would be the coolest thing ever--a customized killer spider!! :clap::clap:with this in mind, patiance, and timing, would it not be possible to use some of those florescent died sands, to create a rainbow specimen after a molt?
This whole post was just pure awesomeness.LOL!!! I would LOVE to see that, oh my goodness. That would be the coolest thing ever--a customized killer spider!! :clap::clap:
I want a smiley-face on mine. ;P
You could put a pre-molt specimen in a sandless ICU, and then apply the died sands before re-introduction to the enclosure. Lol, or maybe dye the spider hot pink or blaze orange, for safety's sake so it stands out in the substrate!