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Hey all,
So I would like to offer a service for pinning our pets that have passed on, including tarantulas but not limited to them, any arachnid, or arthropod, including soft bodied arthropods, Like caterpillars, I can do too. I personally do this with my pets that die and I pin them and put them back up on display.
I have offered this to some people, who have had tarantulas die, but so far no takers. I would like to get input on who would be interested in this service so I can put a post up in the classifieds.
I have about 10yrs of constant yearly experience pinning insects. I have developed a system for negating abdomens that deflate in the drying process and I am in the process of establishing a system for trying to fix the colors in insects and spiders, I have had success with this, in some hard and soft bodies Arthropods and small spiders.
I have yet to try it out on a tarantula, cause I am at the point in this hobby where I have not had a tarantula die on me yet.
If anyone is willing to offer me a colorful tarantula to try my color fixing process on and it is a success and does not affect the setae negatively, which it may, I’m really not sure. I will be happy to provide you with this service free of charge, I may or may not include shipping as well! Not all Tarantulas will need this process, I’m thinking just the very colorful ones, I have found blues don’t hold well in insects except butterflies, Or if people do not care about trying to preserve colors that is okay too.
Ideally I prefer not to pin slings. As I can not as of yet have way to stop the abdomens from deflating at this extremely small size. juveniles, through Adults will be the easiest to work with , for this reason alone, it’s not the size that is the problem.
I can pin things flat or made to look like they are still in motion, I can pin them to look like how their species sits naturally, for example how poecilotheria sits or spread the legs out. I can try and do what ever someone wants.
I’m sure I could even pin a tarantula in threat pose, would just have to make a jig for it. But I would ideally like to work with a few before I try and do that position, just need to get used to how they actually dry and what I would have to work with first in the process.
So let me know what you guys think and who would be interested in this! Hope everyone has a great day! Thanks for reading!
So I would like to offer a service for pinning our pets that have passed on, including tarantulas but not limited to them, any arachnid, or arthropod, including soft bodied arthropods, Like caterpillars, I can do too. I personally do this with my pets that die and I pin them and put them back up on display.
I have offered this to some people, who have had tarantulas die, but so far no takers. I would like to get input on who would be interested in this service so I can put a post up in the classifieds.
I have about 10yrs of constant yearly experience pinning insects. I have developed a system for negating abdomens that deflate in the drying process and I am in the process of establishing a system for trying to fix the colors in insects and spiders, I have had success with this, in some hard and soft bodies Arthropods and small spiders.
I have yet to try it out on a tarantula, cause I am at the point in this hobby where I have not had a tarantula die on me yet.
If anyone is willing to offer me a colorful tarantula to try my color fixing process on and it is a success and does not affect the setae negatively, which it may, I’m really not sure. I will be happy to provide you with this service free of charge, I may or may not include shipping as well! Not all Tarantulas will need this process, I’m thinking just the very colorful ones, I have found blues don’t hold well in insects except butterflies, Or if people do not care about trying to preserve colors that is okay too.
Ideally I prefer not to pin slings. As I can not as of yet have way to stop the abdomens from deflating at this extremely small size. juveniles, through Adults will be the easiest to work with , for this reason alone, it’s not the size that is the problem.
I can pin things flat or made to look like they are still in motion, I can pin them to look like how their species sits naturally, for example how poecilotheria sits or spread the legs out. I can try and do what ever someone wants.
I’m sure I could even pin a tarantula in threat pose, would just have to make a jig for it. But I would ideally like to work with a few before I try and do that position, just need to get used to how they actually dry and what I would have to work with first in the process.
So let me know what you guys think and who would be interested in this! Hope everyone has a great day! Thanks for reading!
