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<blockquote data-quote="PanzoN88" data-source="post: 199730" data-attributes="member: 4548"><p>It has been a minute since I’ve posted in this thread. I was watering the tarantulas and my Euathlus metropolitana (former Phrixotrichus scrofa) was in excellent position for a picture. It’s a shame that these are so rare nowadays. They are jaw dropping.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58906[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now, I’ll get the difficult part out of the way about my collection over the past couple of years.</p><p></p><p>November of 2019, I went out of town for vacation, left the heat on for the tarantulas as that’s what I do when I leave for any extended period of time in the fall/winter months. That week I knew it was going to be cold, but didn’t think anything of it, but I came home to all of the kitchen appliances blinking, well it turns out the neighborhood was without power for a few days. The temperatures were much colder than normal for that time of year. Those are the types of temperatures that can cause issues. Well the power was out long enough that it did cause a large die off of my collection, which was very disheartening. Next fast forward to I want to say the first few months of January my T. schroederi had a bad molt, that loss really had me considering getting out of the hobby altogether, but when we were all sheltering in place, I needed something to occupy myself, which led me to rediscover why I loved the hobby in the first place. I have lost mature males that I was on the fence about when it came to breeding them, which was noermal. The only loss for this year was my monster A. geniculata, but I figured that was coming soon, as she was already a decent size when I got her in 2016.</p><p></p><p>On the bright side, I’m building back up and nothing will stop me this time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PanzoN88, post: 199730, member: 4548"] It has been a minute since I’ve posted in this thread. I was watering the tarantulas and my Euathlus metropolitana (former Phrixotrichus scrofa) was in excellent position for a picture. It’s a shame that these are so rare nowadays. They are jaw dropping. [ATTACH type="full"]58906[/ATTACH] Now, I’ll get the difficult part out of the way about my collection over the past couple of years. November of 2019, I went out of town for vacation, left the heat on for the tarantulas as that’s what I do when I leave for any extended period of time in the fall/winter months. That week I knew it was going to be cold, but didn’t think anything of it, but I came home to all of the kitchen appliances blinking, well it turns out the neighborhood was without power for a few days. The temperatures were much colder than normal for that time of year. Those are the types of temperatures that can cause issues. Well the power was out long enough that it did cause a large die off of my collection, which was very disheartening. Next fast forward to I want to say the first few months of January my T. schroederi had a bad molt, that loss really had me considering getting out of the hobby altogether, but when we were all sheltering in place, I needed something to occupy myself, which led me to rediscover why I loved the hobby in the first place. I have lost mature males that I was on the fence about when it came to breeding them, which was noermal. The only loss for this year was my monster A. geniculata, but I figured that was coming soon, as she was already a decent size when I got her in 2016. On the bright side, I’m building back up and nothing will stop me this time. [/QUOTE]
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