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Recent content by Jeef

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    Refusing food for over a year!!!

    Can confirm. If I was going to be shrunk down and placed in one of my tarantula's enclosures, I'd want it to by my A. johnnycashi with my A. chalcodes being a close second. They appear to be able to live off air.
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    Reacting to negativity as a T owner.

    I don't know that I have gotten any outright negative comments, but I have come to appreciate how gut-level afraid some people are of certain things. I have tarantulas and a snake so there are folks out there that won't even pull in my driveway. That said, I don't have too many people I...
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    Horned Worms

    I too, have never had much luck giving hornworms to my crew. Fortunately for me I usually have at least one spider who eats absolutely anything. Unfortunately, that is the best I got for that. I don't worry about giving my tarantulas a varied diet. They seem to do just fine off just crickets...
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    latrodectism.

    I'm not putting up a handy graphic for priapism. I seem to remember there is/was research into the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria nigriventer) because one of the effects was priapism.
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    latrodectism.

    Here is a handy graphic
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    Jittery since molt

    Can confirm. My A. chalcodes went from being a chow-hound to living off air post-molt. My T. albopilosus is in what I refer to as it's teenager phase. It stays in its burrow 99.9% of the time. If you drop food in front of the hole, it snatches it and returns to its room. That is, when it hasn't...
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    Greetings

    Greetings and welcome aboard! My G. pulchra buried itself for around 4 or 5 months. It happens. When I started out, I only wanted to have one tarantula. My first order came with a freebie, so that went straight out the window. Then I managed to get interested in a few other species. Reading...
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    Happy holiday everyone

    Happy Holidays everybody! I'm sure there are tons of different versions of this out there. Here is the Wikipedia version. Not sure how today is the first time I'd heard about it, but I thought I'd share! Cheers! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Christmas_Spider
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    Hiding

    Depending on the species, you may be waiting a while. Some of my Aphonopelmas bury themselves for months. My Grammastola pulchra and a couple of my Tliltocatls did a few times as well come to mention it.
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    Nova the frog.

    That last emoji was supposed to be a guy shrugging? Not sure why it translated to a male gender symbol. That is what I get posting from my phone.
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    Nova the frog.

    Thanks! Here is the full view. Humidity is a struggle. Water bowl under the heater? Nope. Plexiglass over half the top. Nope. I put a bunch of dried jackfruit leaves in there and I thought that did it only to find out he didn't want to walk on them or hide under them. So I took them out. I just...
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    Happy Halloween

    You left out B. emilia and B. boehmei! My picks for the most Halloween tarantulas. Still a cool video! Which version of "This is Halloween" is that? That isn't from the movie.
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    Nova the frog.

    Here it is. The kiddo picked it out. I would have just gotten a normal morph, but it wasn't my call. Albino apricot.
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    Nova the frog.

    We are picking one of those guys up Saturday. I had no idea they grew that fast. Looks like we are gonna be outgrowing that 10 gallon quicker than I thought.
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    Rare Ts

    I couldn't find a G. pulchra for the longest time. Everyone had G. pulchripies, which I wasn't interested in. I finally scored one, then the next year at the expo, everyone had them. Same goes for A. henzii. This year, I'm in the market for a G. pulchripies, so we'll see what happens. As an...
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