Recent content by Will-batayte

There are only a few I still want, Avicularia purpurea aka purple pink toe Psalmopoeus irminia aka venisualan sun tiger Brachypelma albopilosum aka Honduran curly hair And of course typhochlaena selidonia

Yeah it is, think about this, tarantula venom is very painful especially from say a pokie. If you get bit on your hand the venom will cause severe pain over your whole hand. Now imagine that amount of venom injected into an animal the size of your thumb. That animal's whole body is going to...

got a few with much better focus

So this little fella and a couple others showed up a few days ago so I decided to try feeding today. Unfortunately this little fella broke a leg during shipping. It's about a half inch in size. I was worried it would have an issue hunting and taking prey so I happened to find it on the roof...

You can see the hyper extended leg in that pic.

Ok so I must've prematurely posted this by accident before I included the other photos. Unfortunately my upstairs neighbors dogs started fighting while I was typing and I must've hit post while running upstairs to help break it up.

Yesterday 3 new little friends arrived. A confirmed female 2" king baboon, a large pumpkin patch sling, and a versicolor sling. Unfortunately my poor little versi had a broken leg. Hopefully it'll be okay.

Ok that's what I figured because we just got small crickets for my daughter's little veiled chameleon and I was looking at them thinking my little fella could totally take you

So as you guys may know from my other post I have a G. Pulchra sling. According to the source it's a year or more old. It was polite enough to climb onto the plastic of the enclosure and spread out so I could hold up a ruler. From its front right leg to the opposite back left leg it measures...

My Gramastola Pulchra sling is pretty small. Legs when extended have about a 1 inch spread. I ordered pinhead roaches online for it. Roaches are hardier then crickets so if you buy 50 if em and keep them fed and watered they won't drop dead before your spider will eat them. Other people do...

Like anything else some pet stores may be very knowledgeable and others are not. I've came across the neighborhood petco doing incredibly stupid and dangerous(to the animal) things with their reptiles. But then at the other petco there's a manager who is a veritable wealth of info. Then you...

Well since I wasn't sure if the first one was eaten I decided to give another tonight. This time with out the moss the feeding response was aggressive and instant. Lol I'm not sure the roach even hit the ground. I'm happy to see a hungry spider because as I said it just arrived on Friday. So...

Ok so I got home from work and removed the moss. The spider seems to be fine with this. Still hanging out out in the open. The roach is no where to be found. I think he was probably eaten when I wasn't watching because there's really no where it could be at this point. Next feeding I'm...

So when I dropped it in it landed pretty far away from the sling. So I'm not too sure it even spotted it. This is the first time since I got it that I've tried to feed. So I didn't really know what to expect. I do think it may want food though because it seemed to be paying attention to this...

Thanks guys, that's a great idea as far as baiting the roach. Also. I was kinda hoping you'd say the moss can go. Honestly at the size of the little guy I feel like it's more of a hinderence then a benefit. Something akin to us trying to wander around on a brush pile