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does anon has tarantulas?

4th instar greenbottle blue. about 2 inches at full stretch.
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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Nice, I used to have two but had to sell the lot of them. :(
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psalmopoeus irminia. dirt burrow in the side of some cork bark.
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>> Anonymous
greenbottle's are great looking. did you get yours out of the sling stage?
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>>310136
Nope. :(

This girl did though. Another P. irminia
>> Anonymous
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aside from the various poecilotheria, i think the suntiger is the best looking species out there. just wish the pokies weren't so damn venomous

pic related: poecilotheria fasciata
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crazy jackass handling a poecilotheria metallica
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>>310143
Is that Latin for bad shoop?
>> Anonymous
>>310148

i'm pretty sure that's legit. grainy picture but a lot of people are willing to hold those things.
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I had three tarantulas when I was a kid, as well as more conventional pets. One was a Mexican Red Knee, a real beauty, we would take him out and handle him, too. The others were both Chilean Rose Hairs, which weren't as nice and liked to bite.

In the fifth grade I told my class about the giant hairy pet spiders I had at home, and the stupid girls in my class began to think of me as a freak, a label which was hard to break and cruel. Because, in reality, I was just an innocent little girl who didn't realize that loving all creatures, everything from giant spiders, centipedes, and snakes, as well as kittens and puppies, was not a social norm.
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>>310143
I'M GONNA SUE YOUR ASS INTO JAIL!!
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>>310155
;-;
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>>310155
I've met the girl that took the photo you posted. :P
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I have 34 or some stupid shit like that. These fuckers are ridiculously addictive to buy and/or catch. It doesn't help that the southwest has millions of them ripe for the picking.

Most of them are babies though. Or just very small because I underfeed them.
>> Anonymous
We left mine in the garage in the cage when we got sick of it, a year later it was still alive after having no food or water. Wtf.
>> Anonymous
Could you keep these in a 29 gallon tank? I heard they practically require a small tank.
>> Anonymous
>>310291

You could keep an adult Salmon Pink Birdeater in one of those. But we're talking a 10 inch spider here. Either you'd pay a lot for one or raise one up from a baby, but a 29 gallon tank is too damn big for a baby. Waste of space. Too much vertical room for it to fall and kill itself in as well.

You could try an Avicularia, Psalmopoeus, or Poeciolotheria species in a vertically oriented 29 gallon though. They'd use the room more efficiently, even though they're a bit more difficult to care for.
>> Anonymous
Pretty spider OP. Aren't those arboreal guys very short lived though?
>> Anonymous
>>310324

not necessarily, and the greenbottle blue (chromatopelma cyaneopubscens) isn't arboreal anyway. they're sort of half-way between arboreal and terrestrial.
>> Anonymous
>>310232
It was still alive because it wanted to hunt you down and kill you for being a bad fuck of an owner
>> Anonymous
>>310232

Troll. I have 1 tarantula since I moved out, Mexican red leg, called socrates.
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unbelievable how pretty the p. ornata is
>> Anonymous
>>310439

if he lives in a warm place it's definitely possible. a hardy tarantula could easily survive off latent humidity and naturally occurring bug population for a year.
>> HER_mkv
browns spider>*
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I have 7 at the moment: Paraphysa scrofa, Avicularia "avicularia" sp., Grammostola rosea, Brachypelma smithi, Grammostola pulchra, Crassicrus lamanai, and a GBB the same size as yours (pictured).
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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I used to have a bunch of them, and posted pics regularly and so was dubbed spiderman while I was Anon.. had to sell them though, but hope to get at least one or two again once I'm settled into a place for a while. Here are some random ones..
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>>310112
FUCK YOU AND YOUR FUCKING SPIDERS!!!

EVERY ANON TOO!!!

STICK THEM IN YOUR ASS MOTHERFUCKER!!!
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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Last one was a female Cyclosternum (is it Davus now?) fasciatum, and this one is a mature male Psalmopoeus cambridgei.
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>>310714
No.
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>>310125
Yay, spiderman! I haven't seen you in a long time. =)
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Female Grammostola aureostriata..last was a pairing of G. rosea.
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>>310717
:D

Went to boot camp for a while heh. Which is why I had to sell my collection. :( ..but I'm now an officer in the Navy. Feels weird.

Molting unsexed Psalmopoeus pulcher.
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Mature male Grammostola rosea..this guy was the shit! I could litterally scoop him up with my hand and he would just climb on board. Only once did he show any sign of resistance, so I left him alone that time.
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Female Psalmopoeus irminia.
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Unsexed Avicularia versicolor
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Chromatopelma cyaneopubscens
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>>310721
Whoops...wrong pic, that is an adult female, this is the male.

>>310717
How goes it if you are still there?
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Immature male Poecilotheria ornata getting a drink after a molt.
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Female Brachypelma albopilosum
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Mature male Psalmopoeus cambridgei..same one as earlier. In this pic, it killed a cricket and left it on that piece of wood while he got a drink.
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Baby Pterinochilus murinus. Future terror! heh
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Same male P. ornata munching on his water dish.
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Male Xenesthis sp. "white" molting.
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Same X. sp. "white" only this is just the exuvium after it molted. One of it's fangs didn't form properly..luckily it sorted itself out after a molt or two.
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My beautiful old Psalmopoeus cambridgei female! This is my favorite species...I miss her. ::::(
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This is the same X. sp. "white" only after doing a bit of growing...right after a molt also.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>310740

Doom doom Dooooooom! they're taking over the planet! (sorry but it really does look ETish there).

>>310744
shes beautiful!
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>>310772
:D Thanks..my ex-spiders blush for me. :P
<3
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I can understand keeping a strange pet to watch it eat other bugs or whatever, I can even understand appreciating the creatures strength and predatory instincts.

BUT WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER THOSE GODDAMN THINGS CUTE OHH FUCCKK OH GOD FDSFDFSDFASDS!! #@($USDA!!!NDSADSKILLIT!1
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>>310776
because after a while they grow on you a lot. just like any pet i guess...maybe not quite like a dog or cat because of their interest in you..but the more you learn about them/longer you keep them, the more you love them.

Feeding a baby P. murinus
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Male Brachypelma vagans...this guy loved to flip over his water dish and bury it. :/
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>>310772
here's another of the same spider but a different molt...
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molt jar part 1
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part 2
>> Anonymous
>Salmon Pink Birdeater
I raised one of those from a baby up to about 5 inches but fell on hard times and to give her away because I was having trouble keeping her fed. She used to spend all day digging and carrying things around in her tank. ;_;
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>>310782

Thanks. I just looked up a video of a moulting tarantula on youtube.. fucking most disgusting thing I've ever seen.
>> Anonymous
What gorgeous things. I'm hoping to get one once I move out of home. Nicely photographed, too.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>310781

creepy!
>> Anonymous
are there any behavioral/physical differences between the p. cambridgei and p. irminia? i have a p. irminia sling and i'm dying to see it full grown, but the genus in general interests me.
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>>311030
Not really.. the P. cambridgei will get a little bit larger than the irminia in general, but other than that they are almost identical. As far as temperment/behavoir goes, they are no different. It really depends on the individual spider..some are very defensive, some are reclusive, some are always out in the open, and some are just chill as hell and you can handle them. When the male P. cam I had was immature, it used to pop out of it's hide almost every time I came home from work. It must have felt the vibrations of me opening the door and walking in..but it would always come out like it was checking out what was going on. :D Later he developed quite the attitude and would give me threat displays and strike at me if I was doing anything near him inside his enclosure.

Here is a pic of him giving me a somewhat half assed threat pose.. and then some more pics of him once he was mature.
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>>310715
>>310733
This is the same guy.
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I like this picture, though I'm sure /p/ would tell me it sucked for various reasons. He was doing some grooming and I noticed his fangs sticking out against the light from my window.
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Before he matured.
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When I first got him.
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>>311179

Awww, don't cry...
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>>310792
For you. :D Female Grammostola aureostriata molting.
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xenesthis immanis
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Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens. God must of been on acid when he started burying fossils of this one.
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>>311173

ever been tagged? some of the p. irminia venom reports seem borderline serious, although none are near hospitalization quality. one of them has the tagged individual puking for a couple hours and feeling achy for like 2 days thereafter.
>> Anonymous
cant these spiders kill you ?
>> Anonymous
The spiders that I have seen in this thread look intimidating. Still, I can see how people would find them cute if they don't mind walking on you and showing you that they trust you.
>> Anonymous
>>311310

there has only been one reported death via tarantula bite ever and it comes from china where the tarantulas tend to be more venomous and information is at a serious minimum. it's unlikely that even that one reported death was due to a tarantula bite (either an unidentified spider was reported as a tarantula or it wasn't the spider bite that killed the individual at all).

some species DO have stronger venom (almost exclusively old world species) and can lay down some serious smack in terms of pain and side effects, but even those will sometimes bite to little or no ill effect. the poecilotheria in general are considered to be one of the most venomous genus's.
>> Anonymous
big spider thread
>> Anonymous
contributions much appreciated spiderman. you had a terrific collection. must've been hard to see it go.
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>>311608
I still cry myself to sleep. :( Heh...well it sucks ass but I'll do what I have to do..joined the damn military, so I'm pretty much available to do whatever they want me to.

I plan on buying another spider once I'm settled in..just have to have someone watch it when I'm deployed.
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FUUUUUUCCCCKKKK!!
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>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>312775

OMG thats so awesome!
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>>312789
Yea, I like that one. :D The larger pair of eyes caught the flash just right and it looks like the eyes are glowing. That was my little poo slinger. It tried to poop at me once while it was crawling around on my hand/arm.

Cute little bastard though. ::::P
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
hes blue and he looks neat!
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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I just wish they kept that coloration as adults.
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This is an adult..they still look nice, but I do love that blue.
>> Liska !!LIVFOETqL8j
>>312821

well he turned red and green, that isn't too bad :)
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>>312823
Well, that's a different spider..I sold mine before it completely made it to having the adult coloration. :( They still look pretty cool as adults, they're a very popular species for that reason..I just love that electric blue. :D
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Last one for tonight..gotta wake up somewhat early tomorrow. :\ Goodnight.
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>>311317

Never heard of that report. I think you're lying or mistaking it for a centipede biting a little girl on the head.

Nice former collection though. Reminds me of my own, except with less Aphonopelma.