Hi all

[Rich.Harrington]

Just signed up yesterday and got round to posting today. Always had a great interest in all kinds of general invertebrates and always more so spiders of all form. Over the last couple of years I could say that I have become a little obssesed with theraphosids, so much so that I have decided that working with them is what I ideally wish to do and so have hopefully begun the proccess by getting myself on a place for a basic bsc honors in biology starting in september. (though I am a little lost on what route I should be taking after that, so any clues anyone can offer will be most appreciated)

Just aquired my first T earlier this week just a subadult G.rosea (didn't want to get involved with anything that would be tricky to keep or potentially agressive) and so far so could, although I will need to wait for a moult to see if I have got lucky with a female or not. As mentioned above I would love to work in the field of studying T's, especially in regards to communication, so If anyone can throw me some info or links etc I'll be eternally grateful.

[Nicola Dolby]

Hi Richard, welcome to the site

[Helen Roberts]

Hi Rich and welcome.

"Just a rosea" lol - I have 4 of em (1 is my daughters) and they're gorgeous, wouldnt swap them for anything. Anyway, good luck with your course when you start and I'm sure everyone here will help you as much as they can.

[Ray Gabriel]

Welcome to the most addictive hobby in the world.

I am moving to Panama so selling all my spiders.......................i still came back from the BTS with 6 new spiders all G rosea.

If you want to come over to Panama once we are settled in there is a spider colony a few minutes walk from the back door of our house, youcan come and study that for a while if you wish.

If you want to study communication then i sugest either Hysterocrates kept as a communual group in a large tank.

Ray

[Warren Beattie]

Hullo Rich! One piece of advice: procrastination doesn't go well with a university course. As for the route after, I'm still trying to figure that one myself.

[scotttaylor]

welcome mate these people will help with an questions trust me in a real noob to this i have 1T and its cool sits next to me by my comp good look with finding out how you get the right courses i would ask at the uny or collage you are going to its there job to work it out for you lol,
i remember years and years a go i was at school doing the creases day and i sed i want to be a forester and she throut i sed florist lol

[Rich.Harrington]

Thanks for the welcome folks, and the tips too. (has provided some very interesting reading) If anyone out there actually works with arachnids as a career and can throw me some light on how they got involved and such it would be great too.

[Harry Armstrong]

Hi Rich.
Welcome to the site mate. If you want to talk to someone, Lee from the Spider Shop Wouldn't be a bad place to start but you will have to waite for him to return from Borneo. or get Colin D into the chat room. then there's
Michael Jacobi, he has a forum on Arboreal T's ther is a link on this forum. Other than that just plant a question on the forum and sit back.

Good luck with your Studies.


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[lee smith]

after you have done the biology course you will want to move on to an entomology course (which will cover insects and other invertabrates)

i myself am looking to get qualified with T's as well, im starting a basic GCSE biology course in september and continuing on from there.