Introductions!

[James Box]

welcome, Paul, Marco, Mellisa and Guy!
hope you enjoy it here.
it's a bit slow, but you'll get good, friendly advice here, and a chance to show off your pets. still my favourite forum!

[Paul Hadgett]

Hi there folks. My name is Paul and I'm older than I want to be but still act like a child - especially when I'm riding my mountan bike down rocky mountains hanging on with fear in my eyes! I'm a CNC Programmer/Operator making bike parts and other general engineering bits but it's mostly bike parts so my job is basically like working in a sweet shop making nice shiny things for my bikes. I've been interested in all things outdoors all my life and I love animals, especially the less "normal" ones and so hence my hobby with spiders and reptiles. I've only recently started keeping spiders but I want to learn more about them, about where they live, their habit and their survival in the wild. I don't want to just "keep" them and read "care sheets" but I want to know a lot more about them - I hope. I was recommended by a fellow BTS member who is also a mountain biker and would like to say thenks Pete Mosca for the heads up and I hope to have many happy days on the forum with you guys and girls

My current collection includes the following -

Poecilotheria metallica 0.0.1
Poecilotheria ornata 0.0.1
Poecilotheria regalis 0.0.1
Grammostola rosea 1.1.0
Grammostola pulchripes 1.0.0
Pterinochilus murinus 0.0.1
Euathlus pulcherrmaklassi "Blue Femur" 0.1.0
Brachypelma smithi 0.1.0
Brachypelma bohemi 0.0.2
Avicularia sp "Purple Peru" Pink Toe 0.1.0
Nhandu chromatus 1.0.0

also on there way are the following -

Heteroscodra maculata 0.0.1 - cheers Pete
Brachypelma albopilosum 0.0.1

All the best and seasons greetings to you all

Paul

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Marco welcome to the forum and Seasons Greetings to you.

[Marco Accordi]

Hello all,
my name's Marco and I'm italian; I'm 25 years old and I'm a mechanical engineer. I'm sorry for my english, I don't speak it very well but I'll try to do it as my best. I started collecting spiders since I was a child, keeping some local species such as Segestria florentina, Zoropsis spinimana, Hogna radiata, Tegenaria parietina, Araneus diadematus and the wonderful Argiope bruennichi. Some years ago I started to keep exotic arthropods; I kept:
0.1.28 Pandinus imperator
2.0.0 Heterometrus spinifer
1.0.0 Scolopendra subspinipes de haani (orange legs)
1.0.0 Scolopendra tiger-legged
1.0.0 Lasiodora parahybana
0.1.0 Pamphobeteus fortis

Now my collection includes:
0.1.0 Acanthoscurria geniculata (8 cm BL)
0.0.1 Lasiodora parahybana (2,5 cm BL)
0.0.1 Lasiodora difficilis (3,5 cm BL)
0.1.0 Pamphobeteus antinous cf Perù (Chicken Spider?) (8 cm BL)
0.0.1 Pamphobeteus sp. "Sud-Ecuador Machalla" (3,5 cm BL)
0.1.0 Pterinochilus murinus rcf (5,5 cm BL)
0.0.1 Theraphosa apophysis (5 cm BL)
0.1.0 Haplopelma longipes (5 cm BL)
0.1.0 Heterometrus longimanus

Regardes,

Marco

[Guy Dalziel]

Thank you, everyone. It's always nice to receive a warm welcome.

[lee benson]

welcome to all.

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Guy, welcome to the forum

[Carole Dallison]

Welcome to the forum Guy.

[Guy Dalziel]

Hi, my name is Guy and I've been collecting tarantulas for several years now. I've always had a fascination with spiders; it was a couple of years ago that I met a girl on a forum who was selling some spiderlings and I jumped at the chance. I bought a Brachypelma albopilosum and a Nhandu chromatus, and just recently I bought myself a Grammostola pulchripes. I'm far from satisfied and will be adding more to my collection as time goes on.

[Mrs Linda Street]

Welcome to all new members, and it's nice to see members from overseas, I'm sure there'll be lots of interest and help on hand for us all to gain knowledge on this fascinating/addictive hobby lol.

[Carole Dallison]

Hi Carole, thank you for your welcome. "Nice start" slightly concerns me but not as much as it will my husband!! I am very good at collecting pets!

Yes Im the same at collecting pets, lol!

[conceicao andre]

Hello my name is Conceição, i'm from Portugal.
I know BTS for a while, it's an huge reference for me but never participate.
Now my husband decided to ask some help with our T. Blondi and we decided to participate more.
We have tarantulas for 15 years... Pedro already show pics of some of our baby girls.
Maybe we will meet soon...

[Melissa Oligario]

Hi Carole, thank you for your welcome. "Nice start" slightly concerns me but not as much as it will my husband!! I am very good at collecting pets!

[Carole Dallison]

Welcome to the forum Melissa. Nice start to your collection (notice i said "nice start, lol!" Im sure she wont be your last. I started in march with my first T and now have 31! Lol!

[Melissa Oligario]

Hello all,

I am new to tarantula keeping so I am very glad to have found this forum!
I recently bought a Chaco Golden Knee juvenilue (female) which my daughter has named Poppy! She is fascinating to watch and somehow very cute! I have posted a question in another section as I have a query re heating.