tarantula on back spinning web over itself
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If you are human, then it will depend on the personality of the person to prefer which to choose. In the case of tarantula, instinct would let them choose, IFF they have the ability to, the eaten by a bird scenerio simply because they have a chance to breed instead of being trapped in a cage while the instinct to mate completely takes over.Originally posted by MrT
Lam,
Get a grip on yourself. LOL ;P
I'm not sure which is worst, getting eaten by a bird or living in a nice warm enclosure, being fed big fat crickets without a female.
Not everybody's into packing a $10.00 rosea, paying $28.00 for overnite shipping and sending it to someone they don't know, when they have no interest in any of the offspring.
Go figure.:?
Tuffy, welcome to the forum.
Ernie
I guess it's just me that feel that the welfare of my male tarantula is worth more than 28 bucks.
Edited: The way I see it, I'm responsible for the tarantula the moment he comes into my care.
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Technically, I do own tarantulas, all twenty some of them. Some are with Conipto, the wonderful man that is willing to care for them right now, and som are with my friends.
Edited: And about not owning tarantulas, as long as I can provide their needs, including mating needs, then I see no problem in keeping them in captivity. What I meant in the other post was that between having a chance to mate but get eaten and NOT having a chance to mate but live in "comfortably" in a box...
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This is a little off topic.
To get back at the dorm police people, I took advantage of their policy to have pets that live in water. I now have 17 crayfish. Hahaha. They can't do anything to me now=D =D =D
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a classic:
Yeah, I remember the first time I caught my tarantula "making a sperm web." He was quite embarrassed until I explained that it was perfectly natural and something we all go through. I even gave him some magazines.
Yeah, I remember the first time I caught my tarantula "making a sperm web." He was quite embarrassed until I explained that it was perfectly natural and something we all go through. I even gave him some magazines.
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Hahahaha=D =D =DOriginally posted by caligulathegod
a classic:
Yeah, I remember the first time I caught my tarantula "making a sperm web." He was quite embarrassed until I explained that it was perfectly natural and something we all go through. I even gave him some magazines.
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Great picture and "story".
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I always try to find females for my mature males...but that's just cuz I don't like to hear them tap tap tapping and seeing them try to escape to find one themselves 24/7..
You could almost argue that I'm doing it for selfish reasons
You could almost argue that I'm doing it for selfish reasons
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Plain and simple. We all love tarantulas. We choose to keep them in captivity. I believe that we all have a responsibility to the hobby to help it along... breeding a G.Rosea aint helping. It is an over breed species as it is. Its the same as all these damn dog breeders. We end up with a ton that get put down. Never bought etc. Why send it off to breed? So we can have another 1000 freebies of which most do not want? We have a responsibility to the hobby... if you have a male of something that is not easily accesible... say a nice pamphob or xenesthis... then yeah... get that sucker a female... but not even for the spider. For the community of collectors. And for the love of God calm down Lam. This is a newb who probobly only has this one T and could be interested into getting into the hobby further and finding out about other species and how to care for them... but your over zealousness may drive her away. We all love our Ts but in the end its an unthinking "bug". Its not the end of the world if a g.rosea does not breed. In fact its probobly a good thing if we dont breed every MM.
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I'd rather see more cbb rosy's on the market, so many WC every year can't be good
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exactly...most G rosea we see flooding the market are WC, not CB. I think that we should really be trying to breed more G rosea, simply because at some point, they will stop flooding the market, and that's all we'll be able to get.....
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I don't know where you've been all these years, may be under a rock or something, but most G. rosea out there are wild caught. In fact, some have argued that this is diminishing their wild population, and since a rosea s'ling grow so incredibly damn slow, most breeders just find it easier to go out and catch them.
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What does that have to do with the SLING population. They dont come out full grown and there is an over abundance of SLINGS which is what you get when two adults mate. So your retaliation has no bearing against my argument.
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Here is a little biology lesson for today. Spiderlings grow up to become tarantulas.
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And I seem to recall your quote from above. It is an over breed species??? Talking about trying to salvage a lame argument.