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<blockquote data-quote="theghost" data-source="post: 173337" data-attributes="member: 32660"><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Hello all my name is Justin but I go by ghost. It was given to me as a nickname a long time ago because I am very quiet and sneaky without trying to be. I have been interested in keeping tarantulas since I was about 10 years of age but I never was allowed to keep them because my mother is absolutely terrified of spiders in all forms (yes even deceased ones). When I got older and got kicked out of my house I never wanted to keep a tarantula until I had a stable house/environment for it to be comfortable, happy, and healthy. I started traveling the US at the age of 15 when I got tossed out of my house and have just recently (3 years ago) settled down and got a house in which I plan to stay long term. Over the past 6 months I have been doing a TON of research about which tarantula should be my first one and what sort of enclosure to purchase/build as well as what substrate to use and what kind of feeder bugs I should use/raise for said tarantula. Finally I am ready to purchase one and get my collection going! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">I have befriended and kept snakes, cats, dogs, ferrets, rats, fish, and many other "animals" over the years, but I am finally ready to make my move into tarantula keeping. I have not decided which breeder I will order from online or if I will go to my local "pet" store and purchase one there. I want one that is as young as possible but I am not sure that I am ready to raise a sling as it seems a bit more difficult than a tarantula that is a bit older. I want one that is not quite sexually mature but not too young either. I also have no decided on which tarantula to get yet. I have narrowed the list to the following ones:</span> <span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'">Grammostola rosea</span></em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'">, </span><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'"><strong><em>Brachypelma smithi</em>, <strong><em>Avicularia avicularia</em>, </strong><em>Grammostola pulchra, <strong><em>Aviculara versicolor, </em></strong>or the </em></strong></span><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'">Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens</span>. </em></strong></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">The </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><em>Brachypelma boehmei</em></strong></span></span><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"> came in close but I decided against it. I am not really sure why, as it is a absolutely beautiful specimen, but I just prefer one of the other mentioned breeds. Therefore I am going to be hosting a poll so you can help me decide! I really value the opinion of the keepers on this board (this forum comes highly recommended by a few keepers that I trust implecitly so I have made the poll results invisible until you vote. Please do not vote just to see the results as I will be posting the results in this thread after I close the poll in on 15 June 2020.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Well I am not sure what else to write about myself that is actually relevant to this forum or tarantula keeping in general so I will stop before I start rambling, which I have a tendency to do. I hope that you all have a massively amazing week and that all your tarantula friends are happy, healthy, comfortable, and keep you in good company!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Yours,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Ghost</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="theghost, post: 173337, member: 32660"] [FONT=georgia]Hello all my name is Justin but I go by ghost. It was given to me as a nickname a long time ago because I am very quiet and sneaky without trying to be. I have been interested in keeping tarantulas since I was about 10 years of age but I never was allowed to keep them because my mother is absolutely terrified of spiders in all forms (yes even deceased ones). When I got older and got kicked out of my house I never wanted to keep a tarantula until I had a stable house/environment for it to be comfortable, happy, and healthy. I started traveling the US at the age of 15 when I got tossed out of my house and have just recently (3 years ago) settled down and got a house in which I plan to stay long term. Over the past 6 months I have been doing a TON of research about which tarantula should be my first one and what sort of enclosure to purchase/build as well as what substrate to use and what kind of feeder bugs I should use/raise for said tarantula. Finally I am ready to purchase one and get my collection going! I have befriended and kept snakes, cats, dogs, ferrets, rats, fish, and many other "animals" over the years, but I am finally ready to make my move into tarantula keeping. I have not decided which breeder I will order from online or if I will go to my local "pet" store and purchase one there. I want one that is as young as possible but I am not sure that I am ready to raise a sling as it seems a bit more difficult than a tarantula that is a bit older. I want one that is not quite sexually mature but not too young either. I also have no decided on which tarantula to get yet. I have narrowed the list to the following ones:[/FONT] [SIZE=5][B][I][FONT=trebuchet ms]Grammostola rosea[/FONT][/I][FONT=trebuchet ms], [/FONT][SIZE=5][FONT=trebuchet ms][B][I]Brachypelma smithi[/I], [B][I]Avicularia avicularia[/I], [/B][I]Grammostola pulchra, [B][I]Aviculara versicolor, [/I][/B]or the [/I][/B][/FONT][B][I][FONT=trebuchet ms]Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens[/FONT]. [/I][/B][/SIZE][/B][/SIZE][SIZE=4][FONT=georgia]The [/FONT][FONT=trebuchet ms][SIZE=5][B][I]Brachypelma boehmei[/I][/B][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=georgia][SIZE=5][B][I] [/I][/B][/SIZE]came in close but I decided against it. I am not really sure why, as it is a absolutely beautiful specimen, but I just prefer one of the other mentioned breeds. Therefore I am going to be hosting a poll so you can help me decide! I really value the opinion of the keepers on this board (this forum comes highly recommended by a few keepers that I trust implecitly so I have made the poll results invisible until you vote. Please do not vote just to see the results as I will be posting the results in this thread after I close the poll in on 15 June 2020.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=georgia]Well I am not sure what else to write about myself that is actually relevant to this forum or tarantula keeping in general so I will stop before I start rambling, which I have a tendency to do. I hope that you all have a massively amazing week and that all your tarantula friends are happy, healthy, comfortable, and keep you in good company! Yours, Ghost[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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