Some of my Tarantulas

[Nicola Dolby]

Here are a few of my tarantulas. The pictures are not the best but neither is my picture taking ability.
The first one is Suzi, my H. lividium

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/031_31.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/028_28.jpg

This is my A. versicolor (tiddles) who doesn't like cameras

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/025_25.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/024_24.jpg

Then my P. mirandas, Gizmo and Esmeralda

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/027_27.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/010_10.jpg

This is Yam, the most docile P. ornata I've ever heard of!

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/015_15.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/014_14.jpg

Next is Fluffy, the psychotic A. metallica

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/009_9.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/008_8.jpg

Finally my P. metallica, Maya. Whilst looking quite normal, she is currently living in a burrow, acting like a Haplopelma and trying to cover everything in the viscinity of the burrow in web. Trust me to get a P. metallica with a screw loose!!!

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/006_6.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/005_5.jpg

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p157/nicoladolby/001_1.jpg

So there you go. Some of my tarantulas.

[Simon Batten]

you got some nice spids there Nicola

[BarryL]

some nice T's there.

[Stephen Bryceland]

very nice Ts.. excellent choice too

[Daniel Carpenter]

very nice tarantulas there nicola, love the P. metallica.
Dan.

[Larry Shone]

some really nice Ts there Nicola,would love a pokie one day

[Nicola Dolby]

T Pics

Hi,
I know this may sound like me being, well, mouthy, but I think everyone who likes arborials should keep a Poecilotheria or twenty! Yes, we all know about their venom and their speed, but they are (at least mine are) the most timid, gentle, colourful, cute little spiders you could wish to see. The character that they show as juveniles remains as they get mature, I have a P. formosa just moulted to 15cm and she is still as scatty as ever. All you have to remember is that when they warn you to back off, you do it. As for their speed, the only time I've seen mine use it is when after a cricket! Yes, I have on one occasion had a poke escape, that was when I was misting the tank at 6am of a male P. miranda recently matured and in hot pursuit of anything female! He still went back into his tank as good as gold. Truth is if you want a Poecilotheria, get one and you'll have one of the best pets in the world!! Enjoy!

[Larry Shone]

Yea I would love a P regalis one day, but not while i have young kids around.

[Nicola Dolby]

poecilotheria

Fair point Larry

[James Metcalf]

i would love a P.Metalica but cannot find one for the life of me and iv heard they are very costly is this true

[Howard Farley (Huk7)]

i would love a P.Metalica but cannot find one for the life of me and iv heard they are very costly is this true

They are beautiful T's James, you would not be dissapointed.

I got two last year from the BTS, unfortunately I lost one in a moult but the other that I got from Ray G is doing and growing extremely well.

I paid around £80 for mine, but their prices are very slowly coming down, but I still think you should expect to pay around the £75 mark for them.

A species such as this is also a target for scammers offering them at 'too good to be true prices' they take your money and surprise, surprise, no spiders appear. It has happened a few times, so just be sure of who you are buying them from.

[Larry Shone]

Hey nicola, just having a second look and got curious, whats the cream coloured object with what looks like a keyhole next to the pokies front left foot?

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...lby/027_27.jpg

[Howard Farley (Huk7)]

Hey nicola, just having a second look and got curious, whats the cream coloured object with what looks like a keyhole next to the pokies front left foot?

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...lby/027_27.jpg

Larry, I would probably make a guess at it being a thermometer or such like?

The 'keyhole' is to hang it on a wall, it is facing out of the tank but is inside the glass.

Nichola, do you possibly think that your ornata may well be an immature male? I ask because of it's colouration and distinct lack of patterning, or is it just the photograph?

All nice spids though!!

[Nicola Dolby]

pictures.

Hi,
Yes Howard you got it 100% right about the thermometer, and the P. ornata is a male. I think he is mature as the embolus are clearly there, I've been thinking of getting him a female but my P. metallica, which I was sure was female, has just matured as a male so I'm after a partner for him at the moment (getting the expensive stuff out of the way first!)

[Howard Farley (Huk7)]

Nichola, try Ray Gabriel for loaning your male mettalica, it must have been gutting to see he had matured, but just think of the slings should he do his job!

How old is he?