Arachnomaniacs anonymous

[Mark Pajak]

I'm getting the distinct feeling that I must experience every tarantula genus first hand - I think it will be Cyriopagopus next! I have also been custom making glass tanks for my Poecilotheria slings which are growing up fast - I have found a way of moving them that is stress free!! (- might save that for a journal article).

Anyway, spiders are taking up more and more of my waking (and working) life and it feels good!

Working at a museum helps. I hope to be able to design a spider exhibition for 'insect week' in 2008 - a tenuous link I know but until someone invents 'Spider week' its the best chance I've got of getting it approved.

[James Box]

hey good luck with that exhibition!
i'd love a job in a museum...must be grand!

i completely understand what you mean, i get the bug for certain genera on occasion as well
Cyriopagopus is a great genus, though my experience is VERY limited with them. so far i've managed to keep one C schoedti sling alive, but in the process lost another sling of this species AND an adult C sp "Singapore Blue". though i suspect in the latter's case it was already near the end of its run. will get loads of slings next time i feel brave enough to try the genus. might be when/if my current sling reaches sub-adult.

do let us know which ones you get

[Colin D Wilson]

Hey Mark

first it's every genus....then it will be available type species.......then it'll move onto all the pet trade species

Where you going to stop mate?

[James Box]

Hey Mark

first it's every genus....then it will be available type species.......then it'll move onto all the pet trade species

Where you going to stop mate?

speaking for myself: the grave, and even then i'm not sure