connjamm19
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do Lasiadora parahybana, or salmon pink bird eaters make good begginers... are they highly venemouse, or hard to take care of???? thanks for the help
+1 +1 +1 +1 +1i personally would recommend you start with one of the classic "starters" and work your way from there. If you want a giant a grammostola pulchra might be a good one. Grammies are fairly easy to care for, and the pulcras are for the most part rather friendly and calm. But thats just me.
k thanks for the help i really appreciate because i cant wait to get my first T! and i dont wanna get in over my head lol.. but yeah thanks im definitely gonna check out the grammostola pulchra, i just hope that paul becker has some, lol becasue paul and robc are the only sellers i know.... thanks again for the helpI personally would recommend you start with one of the classic "starters" and work your way from there. If you want a giant a grammostola pulchra might be a good one. Grammies are fairly easy to care for, and the pulcras are for the most part rather friendly and calm. But thats just me.
G. pulchra is stunningly pretty, and a perfect starter. Some other good first tarantulas (and the L. parahybana is better for a second or third tarantula, due mostly to its size ), would be these:k thanks for the help i really appreciate because i cant wait to get my first T! and i dont wanna get in over my head lol.. but yeah thanks im definitely gonna check out the grammostola pulchra, i just hope that paul becker has some, lol becasue paul and robc are the only sellers i know.... thanks again for the help
It's now G. pulchripesGrammostola aureostriata (Chaco golden-knee)
So it is! Thank you.It's now G. pulchripes
G. aureostriata Schmidt & Bullmer, 2001 = G. pulchripes (Simon, 1891) (Gabriel, 2009a: 9).
Lol. At least I didn't say "poisonous."I'm sorry, but this is kinda my nerd field, and I need to say it. They're not toxic. They're venomous.
Pff..no problem, dude. I'm the same way with "aggressive" vs "defensive." Drives me nuts.Again, I am deeply sorry, but I just have a thing.. Like an eye twitch, just without the twitching of the eye.. YEah, something like that..
Complete awesomeness! "can I offer you a black widow?" *guy croaks*Incidentally....cool trivia. Did you know that Latrodectus spp. are BOTH "poisonous" AND "venomous" ? I read about an experiment that was conducted, in which several dozen mashed up, pulped, and very dead black widows were fed to a camel. It died, leading the researchers to conclude that Black widows, in addition to be hazardously venomous, were inedible and poisonous. No joke!
Since venom is just one type of poison, Latrodectus are not the only spiders that are both venomous and poisonous - all of them are.Lol. At least I didn't say "poisonous."
Incidentally....cool trivia. Did you know that Latrodectus spp. are BOTH "poisonous" AND "venomous" ?
That is what I was thinking, too: poisons can be ingested, inhaled, absorbed through the skin, but venoms needed to be carried through the blood supply through direct injection. Most venoms can be ingested safely, as they break down in the stomach.May I please ask for your source of information, Bill? Everything I have ever read on the subject of toxicology, poisons are ingested, venoms are injected. I would be most interested in knowing where it has been said that this definiton is no longer viable.
As I said, I spent part of a day in a medical library at a local hospital (University Medical Hospital in Tucson). I dug through every medical dictionary I could find in that library (there were several of them) and some of the toxicology reference books there as well. Back when I did this I posted a bibliography in the discussion board where this was being argued. Having done my research, I'm convinced of my viewpoint. I'm not offering to do your research for you - but the information is definitely out there, abundant, and accessible. I only caution that you use REAL medical references - not "amateur hour" sources such as Wikipedia or blogs. If you live near a teaching hospital, there should be a medical library there, and that's an excellent place to start. I'd place more faith in medical dictionaries than in common usage ones, although the common usage ones I've checked have supported the broad use of the term "poison".May I please ask for your source of information, Bill? Everything I have ever read on the subject of toxicology, poisons are ingested, venoms are injected. I would be most interested in knowing where it has been said that this definiton is no longer viable.