Introductions!

[Andy Wood]

Hi all.
New to the Forum but long time member of the BTS. Not sure why I
haven't been active on the Forum before now. Been keeping Tarantulas since
1992 still have my L.parahybana that I bought that year as a juvenile. she's
looking good.
Quick list....
G spatulata x3
L parahybana x1
N chromatus x3 spiderlings
B smithi x2 juv
C crawshayi x3 spiderlings
B schroederi x3 spiderlings

and 3 Damon variegatus (2 whiplings) fascinating but weird whip scorpions.

There's one tarantula I have I'm not sure of Id got as unidentified
spiderling, think may be Psalmopaeus sp I'll post a picture up and hopefully
someone can identify it for me.
Am intending to extend the collection a bit over the next few months and
know I'll be able to pick up a lot of info from the Forum.....

Cheers...

AndyZoo

[kelly murray]

Hello

Hi

I have been a keen observer of tarantula's and other arachnids for quite a long time now. It has been the last few years which i have decided to start a small lovable collection.
I now have:
A Grammastola Aureostriata (Chaco Golden Knee)
A Aphonopelma Seemani (Costa Rican Zebra)
A Haplopelma Lividum (Cobalt Blue)
(the above are all females)
10 Citharischius Crawshayi (King Baboon) spiderlings about 1-1'half inches each.

Although last but not least a 3ft 6 inch milk snake.

Hope to share and receive advice from you all.

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Kelly, welcome to the forum, you've got yourself some nice T's to start off your collection, but I warn you they're very adictive lol & 10 Crawshayi slings, were they all from the same eggsac?

[kelly murray]

Hi linda
apparently three of the crawshayi slings were from one eggsac
the other seven were are slightly younger from a different eggsac
thanks

kelly

[Lisa Baines]

hey kelly, welcome to the forum hun

[kelly murray]

Hi lisa

how's it going?
thanks for the welcome!

kelly

[dale king-evans]

Hi everyone

Hi everybody, fairly new to the forum so i thought i'd say hi.
Got into T's about 2 years ago. Got a G. Rosea from a friend and got hooked.
Love them all but especially my B. annitha.
Anyways, hope everyone is well and look forward to reading and posting more.
Dale

[lynn mawdesley]

Welcome Kelly and Dale !

[Mrs Linda Street]

Hi Dale, welcome to the forum.

[kelly murray]

Hello Lynn
Thanks for the welcome.
that is a lovely collection you have
Kelly

[kelly murray]

Hi Dale
i too have not long joined, loving the enthusiasm of everyone.
Do you have any others in your lovely collection
Thanks

Kelly

[lynn mawdesley]

Hello Lynn
Thanks for the welcome.
that is a lovely collection you have
Kelly

It can only get bigger lol

[kelly murray]

HI Lynn can you help
i have been feeding one of my T's and at some point must have put a pregnant cricket in as she had not eaten it and i now have a cluster of extremly young crickets running aroung her cage. i have removed her for now but what is the best course of action.
would really love your advice
thank you
kelly

[Peter Lacey]

Kelly, I think we've all been there! LOL
The cricket is capable of laying eggs on 6 occassions, or so I'm told, but I've never noticed the baby crickets disturbing the Ts.
They'll die off without food but they can come in handy to feed really small Ts. The easiest way to catch them is to put a piece of lettuce down and periodically take it out and give it a little shake. There are other ingenious ways of removing them explained within the forum so you might want to do a search but unless your T is showing obvious stress I wouldn't bother too much.

[lynn mawdesley]

HI Lynn can you help
i have been feeding one of my T's and at some point must have put a pregnant cricket in as she had not eaten it and i now have a cluster of extremly young crickets running aroung her cage. i have removed her for now but what is the best course of action.
would really love your advice
thank you
kelly

Hi Kelly,

Wow never been asked for help before lol ....yea agreed with pete, people use colonies of cleaner woodlice and springtails to clean the tank of bolas ( which is whats left over after they have munched on a cricket) and mould so i imagine it shouldnt bother the T, if she is showing signs of stress the obvious thing would be to just replace the substrate with new
Dont panic too much hun
Lynn