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So, in our shopping centre there's currently an reptile/snake/spider exhibition with around 40+ specimens on display. While the cages of the snakes are seemingly nicely setup according to size and habitat, the ones of the spiders obviously caught my main attentions. Disappointed to realize there were only but a mere handful...
...to make things annoying however, is the following:
#1 Brachypelma auratum => Inside? Brachypelma smithi
#2 Pamphobeteus antinous => Inside? Lasiodora parahybana
#3 all kept dry, all without waterdish, all the terrestrials just with around ~2" of substrate it seemed (I could be wrong on this last one, but the glasspyramid consisting of all those cages didn't really look like giving much room down)
#4 Toxicity on each: Middle to Strong ( in case of the "Pampho")
Sadly, none of the guys supposedly doing the presentations was around, otherwise I would've loved to call them out on this just to hear what they say.
End of story: Really wasted my time with the spiders and annoyed me quite some all that wrong information, wrong lables. The snakes however, where beautiful animals mostly Kingsnakes, Boas, Pythons with a few Vipers (those native to Europe) thrown in between. Can't judge if those were labled wrongly as well since I lack the knowledge, but my guess would be the main focus being on snakes, the people doing this are not spiderguys who know their stuff.
...to make things annoying however, is the following:
#1 Brachypelma auratum => Inside? Brachypelma smithi
#2 Pamphobeteus antinous => Inside? Lasiodora parahybana
#3 all kept dry, all without waterdish, all the terrestrials just with around ~2" of substrate it seemed (I could be wrong on this last one, but the glasspyramid consisting of all those cages didn't really look like giving much room down)
#4 Toxicity on each: Middle to Strong ( in case of the "Pampho")
Sadly, none of the guys supposedly doing the presentations was around, otherwise I would've loved to call them out on this just to hear what they say.
End of story: Really wasted my time with the spiders and annoyed me quite some all that wrong information, wrong lables. The snakes however, where beautiful animals mostly Kingsnakes, Boas, Pythons with a few Vipers (those native to Europe) thrown in between. Can't judge if those were labled wrongly as well since I lack the knowledge, but my guess would be the main focus being on snakes, the people doing this are not spiderguys who know their stuff.
