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What Pet Should I Get? Anonymous
Hay guise,

So, I want a new pet, but i want something low maintenance. I'm gonna be living on campus next fall so I'd prefer a pet I can feed on the weekends or twice a week. I currently have a bunch of tarantulas, a pixie frog named Matthew, a milksnake, and a madagascar hisser colony. Any ideas for a cool low maintenance pet? Preferably something that doesn't stink?
>> Anonymous
haha, silly anon thinks milkshake is pet!
>> Anonymous
If you already have tarantulas why don't you try scorpions?
>> Anonymous
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You can't go wrock with a pet rong.
>> Anonymous
OP's pic is gorgeous!

If you're already set up for those types of pets why not try local adoption centres/adoption ads or such? A lot of people get bored of reptiles/arachnids once they realise they're not as eager as dogs.
>> Anonymous
>>272504

Thats a pretty nice P.regalis, she must be pretty calm if you hold her, which is rare...and usually very stupid to do since the venom will give you 3 weeks of flu like symptoms.
>> Anonymous
>>272597
some days I would fucking KILL to have the flu...
>> Anonymous
>>272597
Judging from the coloration it must be a P.Ornata.
The file name is ornata too so it has to be yeah.
>> Anonymous
>>272616

P.ornata doesnt have the yellow colouration under its front legs, nor does it have the bit of bluish colouration near the eyes. Its easy to mix up tarantula species, even more so with some of the pokies.
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>>272680
Really? Because my P.ornata has blueish/purplish highlts on the carapace and eye area and also has yellow underneath the legs.
Under the untrained eye poecilotherias are easy to confuse, but they can be easily be identified.
>> Anonymous
OP here. Its a P ornata. Not my pic. It's golden/greenish/light brown carapace with purple highlights suggest P. Ornata to me. A regalis that mature would probably not have that much of a brown color to it.
>> Anonymous
Get a beginner snake, like a corn snake or something. Most snake fans end up going back to corn snakes even after owning pythons and such.
They only need feeding 2-3 times a week depending on the size, at the moment I feed mine on Monday and Friday. They're sweet to handle although they have to be left alone for 48 hours after eating, to avoid barfing up a semi-digested mouse.
I've never owned an arachnid so I can't tell you if they're better or not, but as far as low maintenance, you couldn't go wrong with a beginner level snake.
>> Anonymous
>>273190
so you can only hold him once or twice a week?
>> Anonymous
>>273192
Unfortunately, though this is about the OP and he spoke nothing of handling. I just picked low maintenance over handling, because reptiles interest me regardless of whether or not I'm touching them. I would've gone for a bearded dragon if it weren't for the fact that they need feeding more often, that's the down side to snakes not eating often, their slow metabolism.
While you can feed most pets and continue handling them, snakes just need to be left to digest stuff, that's the price you pay for feeding it a few times a week.
OP already has a milksnake but still, 'beginner' snakes are the only really low maintenance pet I can think of that don't stink, again, I've never had an arachnid so I know nothing of them. I hear leopard geckos are also decent beginner pets but don't quote me on that.
I also lol'd at the rock.
>> Anonymous
You can always do something like some millipedes, you just throw in some fruit and veggies every 2-3 days and give them a quick spray every night.

Cornsnakes still require you to change their water everyday(most people do it every 2-3 days, but really its just so much better for the health of your snake to do it everyday). So either way no matter what you get you have to fiddle with it everyday, unless ofcourse its an arachnid or some inverts, but even then it depends on the species.

Something like a Green bottle blue tarantula maybe needs to be fed 1-3 times a week, depending on how fast you want it to grow. And only need to be misted once a week since they like it alot dryer. Then there are stuff like some tailess whiptail scorpions that should be misted every night and fed everynight. I myself have two of them in a deli cup(just babies) and I throw in 4-6 pinheads every night, none ever survive until morning.
>> Anonymous
>>273248
Yeah, though replacing the corn snake's water is still within my realm of low maintenance, its not like cleaning out and washing a cat litter tray all the time or having to get rid of nasty cat/dog meat that they didn't finish eating, washing the bowl out etc. You just give it a quick rinse, refill it and put it back in the tank/viv. You can get away with spot cleaning if you have an idea of when they shat, and they don't really need a full clean that often, like once a month or so. But OP probably knows all this, having a milksnake and all.