Tarantula goals!!!

[ZergFront]

I'd prefer an adult that thinks I should be dinner but I'll take the sling.

LOL! Imagine if you had to have something as large as an aviary to house one tarantula.

(starting a new "Mad Scientist Dream" thread in TWH)

Short term goal :

Having a REALLY hard time choosing between A. minatrix, GBB, singepore blue or H. maculata slings..

 

[upwith inverts!]

I want to get a female H. Gigas, breed her, and see how communal H. gigas really are.
Get a GBB
Start a T company
Get my first centipede, solidugid, true spider, and amblypygid.
Get a US native T
And I have an idea Ive been toting around with for a while that I don't want people to know about yet(andit doesn't involve an epidemic)

 

[ranchulas]

New goal to raise and breed my C. elegans !

 

[Lucille]

Finish the 20-25 acrylic enclosures I'm making.
Get T slings in them.
Find a group of Texas T people.

 

[ZergFront]

Seriously!? No one has had T goals in a while?

New goal! Get L.violeceopes the coming spring!

 

[Mack&Cass]

Ooh this is a cool thread...I realize it was started last year but I must have skimmed past it.

Okay, here goes...

1. Start to offer my organs in exchange for a MM E. pachypus
2. Successfully breed B. albopilosum (they've already been mated once, try #2 is tomorrow)
3. Breed P. irminia
4. Breed E. cyanognathus
5. Successfully raise our A. avic and A. versicolor...we have the worst luck with Avics
6. Start collecting some Latrodectrus sp.
7. Start to branch into collecting more Tapinauchenius and Ephebopus sp.
8. Try to limit the crying and hyperventilating to 30 mins when our MM B. albopilosum dies...yeah right

Cass

 

[Mattyb]

My goal is to get out of debt. and to breed my T.blondi.

 

[Ariel]

Short term goals:
-convince my parents to let me get a few tarantulas at the retile show in october.
-move out
-keep my MM A. avic clean and happy (been having a problem with that, first mold, now bugs )

-get:
*GBB
*B. Boehmei
*P. murinus
*P. regalis
*H. incei
*C. elegans

Long term goals:

-convert my friend and get her a tarantula LOL
-collect more than 15 T's
-collect other inverts (namely scorps, milipedes, and tailless whip scorpions)
-go to collage (for entomology of course!)
-get a M. balfouri, P. metallica, and a blue fang
- Start some kind of coloney (likey H.incei)

I have succeeded in two of these. My MM A. avic "Bullet" is living a mite and mold free life. however, he IS nearing the end of his life, which breaks my heart.

I have also convinced my parents to allow me to have a few more Ts, I have nine as of right now, but I am no longer aloud to get any more than that. :wall:

Other than that, nothing

 

[gumby]

Ok I've got my new goals for the rest of this year:

1. Add three different species of Poecilotheria all 1"+ in size.

2. Add 2 species of Avicularia that I have not owned yet.

3. Observe Aphonopelma iodious in natural habitat in several locations in Utah. Record differences in the local species.

4. Learn more about and collect 1 Philippine tarantula. all rock!

Ok I got #1 and #2 done but still a lot of work to do on #3 and I have yet to do #4.

Some new goals for 2010:
1. Some how convince my monster female C. fasciatum to mate with my MM C. fasciatum I think shes just a man hater.
2. Sex my A. diversipes who I believe will be ready to mate in the next year.
3. collect 3 more Avicularia I have not owned before. This is getting harder as I now own 11 different species of Avicularia and I'm trying to count new species as identified different species. Otherwise I'd just buy several Avicularia avicularia and call it good. :wall:

 

[Marvin]

My goal is to get a big and beautiful adult P.Metallica with the largest and most beautiful enclosure

 

[JungleCage]

my goals

1. Finally find a 9" female Cyriopagopus Schioedtei and buy it
2. Finish all my cage backgrounds
3. Find a H. vonwirthi male
4. Breed a pair of H macs and keep every sling
5. get my hands on a breeding pair of M. Lambertoni, M Balfori, Lampropelma sp. "Borneo Black".
6. Get the guts to hold my rosehair

 

[TarantulaFanBoy]

My goals

1. Acquire Some of the less common Asian Arboreals ( in the US Hobby at least ) Like. Cyriopagopus sp. "Sumatran Tiger", Cyriopagopus sp. "Sulawesi Black", Phormingochilus everetti And others among them.

2. Make the most Naturalistic Setup that i can create for them


3. Eventually attempt a Breeding project with them.

 

[azgbb]

Stop buying so many T's.

I'm running out of room!

 

[Abby]

My goals are:

* convince my husband that Ts are nothing to fear, and we NEED to get more
* keep learning about how to care for my babies
* still be obsessed with everything they do
* just enjoy watching my T garden grow

 

[SpiderDane]

My goal was to get over my fear

Now i´m hooked at these little beauties

1: I´m waiting on the weather god to raise the temps a bit, so i can get my Cyriopagopus schioedtei female
2: To get many more
3: Try getting even more
4: Try not getting any more

 

[Nymphenee]

My goals:

1. Eventually work my up the difficulty ladder to Pokie-level.
2. Successfully start breeding Ts. Any species will do.
3. Own a P. Metallica and M. Balfouri.
4. Own most purple colored species.
5. Own several hundreds of Ts.

Bonus: Successfully smuggle my Ts into college and care for them without putting them in an environment that could harm them. (Wohoo single dorms with own bathroom! )

And find other people my age who live locally that share my passion.

 

[¥AMEON]

[¥] UpComing Project [¥]

i try to keep it simple and stick with one goal at
a time l.o.l

Goal:
Envisioning and making a piece of Tropical Jungle
with Custom CliffWall imitation BackDrop suitable
for orchid's and various plant's out of and in to
the new'bought ExoTerra 12x12x16 And making
the design flexible enough to suit any type of
"next to be" Aboreal house Guest ^^

 

[8by8]

My goals for 2010

1. Get a P. Miranda
2. Find a MM for my female Lampropelma Violaceopes
3. Find a MM for Nhandu chromatus
4. Buy a microscope
5. Finish paper on Aphonopelma Moderatum and get the conservation wheels moving on that subject.

 

[tiger cowboy]

Short term
-Get some size on my T's!
-Start making visually appealing enclosures (I hate tupperware but man is it convenient)
-Establish a good self-sustaining B. dubia colony
-Not get tagged

Long term
-Get some size on them spiders!
-Start breeding (Limited scale, fun and trading)
-Not get tagged