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arachnids (w/ photos)

Awesome Tarantulas, I drool over the Swift's Invertibrates website, but have a roomate afraid of spiders...
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Yes...that would be me. I can't help it. I have horrible arachnaphobia - have had it for as long as I can remember. I can't even stand the huntsman spiders we get around our house. But hey..at least I like snakes! I'm not all bad!

Great pics and it looks like you have quite a collection. Do you breed them or just keep them for your own enjoyment?
 
ArpeggioAngel said:
Great pics and it looks like you have quite a collection. Do you breed them or just keep them for your own enjoyment?
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thank you....so far i have just had them for personal enjoyment, but i have a mature male that is ready to go...i just have to sit down and pair him with my two girls. one before the other...the latter (the one eating the roach) may eat him..shes not as gentle as the other one. btw the species is g rosea (chilean rose hair) (the ones all over indiana jones' back in raiders of the lost ark)

i want to practice with a species that is easier to breed, then i will move on to more difficult species as i have females mature and whatnot. the interesting thing about tarantulas at least...the males don't live very long after they mature, so people will often pair it with a female then send it off to reputable breeders (or just people they know with mature females) and if all goes well, there is a 50/50 split of the spiderlings.
 
arachnocon spiders

got back from arachnocon in san antonio texas and came home with a little more than i planned on.

aphonopelma sp. redbud (not sure what this looks like as an adult) won in the raffle.
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bought a xenesthis sp. white
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bought a psalmopoeus reduncus
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and psalmopoeus pulcher which molted a day or two after i got home :D
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more pics

bought 3 holothele incei
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won a chromatopelma cyaneopubescens or green bottle blue
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bought a brachypelma emilia
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found a possibly gravid female centruroides vittatus and two males
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and last, i won a cuppiennius coccineu or orange wandering spider
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the whole event was amazing, i had a great time..and if you live in the us and are interested, i recommend going next year! i'll be there :D
 
Woah! They are all freakin GORGEOUS!!!! If my mom would let me, i'd probly have one or two. But know way in hell would i touch them..LOL
 
Beautiful critters! We have a Rose female, Curlyhair female, and three Pinktoe spiderlings :D.. I reallly realllllllly reallllllllyyyyy want some avicularia versicolor's in my collection though... we just met a couple who breeds some arachnids and are now thinking of becoming sort of, apprentices :D.. fun stuff!

Laine
 
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