Birthday spid - Acanthogonathus pissii

[Peter Lacey]

eeek you're right Richard, under tarantulas LOL, my mistake, sorry.

Her current enclosure is getting a bit moist in my loft/spider room and I can see marks on the lid where's she's run her legs over the moisture, so I don't think she's happy in her container. Another rehousing which I'll probably undertake at the weekend so I'll find out as much as I can before then.
Thanks Mary, I remember seeing your frankii, lovely little spider.
And thanks all for the greetings.

[Richard Shah]

eeek you're right Richard, under tarantulas LOL, my mistake, sorry.

Her current enclosure is getting a bit moist in my loft/spider room and I can see marks on the lid where's she's run her legs over the moisture, so I don't think she's happy in her container. Another rehousing which I'll probably undertake at the weekend so I'll find out as much as I can before then.
Thanks Mary, I remember seeing your frankii, lovely little spider.
And thanks all for the greetings.

Lol - don't be sorry. If it was me, I probably would've done the same cuz when I would see 'Spiders' I'd go back straight away to the forum to mock whoever it was for saying that it was listed as a tarantula, and not knowing that spider does not necessarily mean tarantula!

I'm sure rehousing will be, fun! And when you find out all you can, give me (assuming you will have done so) all the links to the sites which you have used as resources plz!

See, what I do not understand is about how people on this site keep tarantulas; so many rare or unknown to the wider public of species is kept by many on these and similar forums, but where do they find specific species information and the like regarding how to care for them?
There have been so many species that I cannot find out about on the net, and I do not understand how you guys and girls alike keep these without too much problems. Do you all have a special book (Stanley Schultz, I'm guessing) that tells you about these different types?
James - wow, you have a huge collection. Mary too. Did you actually know how to care for these properly or was it more or less a guessing game?

[Peter Roach]

Here you are Richard, something for you to read and maybe learn from

http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acanthogonatus

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1624

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/NEMESIIDAE.html

There have been so many species that I cannot find out about on the net, and I do not understand how you guys and girls alike keep these without too much problems

Its called research, which means sitting front of the computer screen for hours and hours reading ALL available information and piecing together any and all information to get an overall picture of the species that you are searching for. This includes text in German, Dutch and Czech amongst others, which can be a nightmare when you have to use an on-line translator and in some cases cut and paste dozens and dozens of sections of text in different translators to get even a basic idea on what they are talking about.

Do you all have a special book (Stanley Schultz, I'm guessing) that tells you about these different types?

While the book you are talking about it is very good, I think it just gives the reader a general idea about captive husbandry and not about the rarer species. If you have this book you should know this by the simple fact of reading it

I keep my female A frankii the same as my chiles (and like 99% of my spiders) ... Dry.

[Andrew Ferguson]

Happy birthday Peter. That's a nice looking spider; but who decided on the name pissi??

@ Richard. As Peter Roach has said, it's all down to research; often years of the stuff. Start off simple by looking at National Geographic and the British Museum of Natural History websites. There is a nice video of a talk about spiders of all kinds on that site (NHM) if you look for it. And books. Lots of books. Get down to your local library. I even saw a childs book in a bookshop called Getting To Know Spiders (or something like that) and although simple, was very interesting (does that say more about me though? ). It was in that book I learned about a spitting spider!

Here's a quick link for you
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...FRD_en___GB244

[mary walters]

Richard, a lot of mine have been sold over the last few weeks as I seem to be at work more than at home lately, so I am down to around 100 now.
The franiki's were trial and error till I got them right.

[James Box]

same with my franckii Mary, not exactly a hard species to please, it seems! my girl is doing fine.

Richard, i would hardly take that heading as "gospel". technically, he should have a section for other mygalomorphs, but i reckon because they don't fit into "true spiders", and it's an extra hassle to create a mygalomorph section for two species, he probably just didn't bother or hasn't bothered yet.
i didn't even notice that when i bought it, as i already knew it was not a tarantula.

[Richard Shah]

Richard, a lot of mine have been sold over the last few weeks as I seem to be at work more than at home lately, so I am down to around 100 now.
The franiki's were trial and error till I got them right.

Yes that is what I would've guessed it have been, all the same you were obivously sucessful with it!
How was parting with the tarantulas? 100, that is still a lot (but not for most on these forums, so to me anyway!! )!

Happy birthday Peter. That's a nice looking spider; but who decided on the name pissi??

@ Richard. As Peter Roach has said, it's all down to research; often years of the stuff. Start off simple by looking at National Geographic and the British Museum of Natural History websites. There is a nice video of a talk about spiders of all kinds on that site (NHM) if you look for it. And books. Lots of books. Get down to your local library. I even saw a childs book in a bookshop called Getting To Know Spiders (or something like that) and although simple, was very interesting (does that say more about me though? ). It was in that book I learned about a spitting spider!

Here's a quick link for you
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...FRD_en___GB244

Kl. Yes a lot of research does go into these things. Thanks for the link Andrew.
And yes, wassup with the name 'pissii'????? LOL!

Here you are Richard, something for you to read and maybe learn from

http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acanthogonatus

http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1624

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/NEMESIIDAE.html

Its called research, which means sitting front of the computer screen for hours and hours reading ALL available information and piecing together any and all information to get an overall picture of the species that you are searching for. This includes text in German, Dutch and Czech amongst others, which can be a nightmare when you have to use an on-line translator and in some cases cut and paste dozens and dozens of sections of text in different translators to get even a basic idea on what they are talking about.



While the book you are talking about it is very good, I think it just gives the reader a general idea about captive husbandry and not about the rarer species. If you have this book you should know this by the simple fact of reading it

I keep my female A frankii the same as my chiles (and like 99% of my spiders) ... Dry.

Damn, that is what I call research. How do you go about finding sites in different languages. Surely the scientific names would be different in different languages??

I wouldn't know about the Schultz book, I do not have it. But it still seems a good read, from what I've heard from you and others.

Thanks for the links Peter, I'll have to read those and definitely learn from then!!!

[Colin D Wilson]

Surely the scientific names would be different in different languages??

This is the reason we have scientific names Richard, they remain the same which ever language is used.

For instance if you were talking to a member of any other nation and said you had a Chaco Golden Knee he may not know what you meant as he may call it a bronze kneed bird eater (for instance).
using the scientific name Grammostola aureostriata he would know exactly which spider you were refering to.

[Richard Shah]

This is the reason we have scientific names Richard, they remain the same which ever language is used.

For instance if you were talking to a member of any other nation and said you had a Chaco Golden Knee he may not know what you meant as he may call it a bronze kneed bird eater (for instance).
using the scientific name Grammostola aureostriata he would know exactly which spider you were refering to.

I wasn't sure about that, I thought that may be the case. Thank you for the clarification.

[mary walters]

Awful parting with them Richard, but they have new homes and have gone to people I know so not too bad thanks.

[Richard Shah]

Awful parting with them Richard, but they have new homes and have gone to people I know so not too bad thanks.

Okay, thats good then. How many (more-or-less) did you end up selling?
Just wondering to see how big your collection was.