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RE: Tarantulas

Joeseph — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:55:27 GMT

Nice I just paid for a H. albostriatum should be here in a couple of weeks I have a friend heading down to see Ken and he offered to pick it up for me to save shipping.

RE: Tarantulas

The Slowest Turtle — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:49:31 GMT

Katschamne (3/9/2009)

Nice enclosures, the only thing that you have to be careful of is that the cage on terrestrial species should only be the 1 1/12 the height of the spider's leg span. The reason being that if the spider crawls on the glass up to the top of a 10 gallon tank a fall could rupture it's abdomen. What I suggest to people if they are using a taller tank, is to fill the tank up with substrate to make it safer for the spider. Sometimes they will burrow down, but my two G. rosea don't.

We have an OBT as well and hubby is joking that he got a defective one because he sees his "pet holes" more often then his OBT. It never comes out and it waits for it's food to come to her. If I shine a light in it I might be able to see legs.

Thanks, Yeah the G rosea was my first T so thats how I set it up. I have only seen her on the walls twice. I fed her and she stopped crawling the walls lol. I am in the process of making custom enclosures for the Ts to suit there needs & sizes (I need to find more glass sheets). The OBT tank is a 2.5 gallon tank so its not a big as it may look in the pic.

Our G.Rosea wont burrow either.

Your hubby should just get more OBTs, then he will more than likely see one out. lol Our smallest one has been out and about a lot lately, but before that it was a pet hole.

RE: Tarantulas

Katschamne — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:46:54 GMT

We were thinking about getting another OBT, but we picked up a Haplopelma minax and a 4.5" Female Brachypelma scheroderi-(Mexican Black Velvet). The last one set us back a bit. It was $200. But it's not one you find too often.

RE: Tarantulas

Joeseph — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:01:38 GMT

ya you should try to get another one = ) they're cheap lol...

RE: Tarantulas

Katschamne — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:10:09 GMT

RE: Tarantulas

The Slowest Turtle — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:14:31 GMT

Here is a few more.
Pink toe web

Rose hair enclosure

A chilean copper

Another chilean copper

OBT

Another OBTs enclosure (cant see the T in this one)

He/she hangs out in the corner

RE: Tarantulas

dislatecoya — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:24:18 GMT

Nice!

RE: Tarantulas

Katschamne — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:09:03 GMT

Nice pics. I tried to take pictures of my E. pulcherrimuklaasi-Blue femur Beauty. today she molted Monday but I couldn't get a good picture showing her blue femurs.

Tarantulas

The Slowest Turtle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:36:54 GMT

Here is a couple of pics. The first one is a rose hair stretching after a moult.

Here is the pink toe.

Pink toe enclosure

I will post more pics of my other ones when I put them on photo bucket.

Enjoy. Comments welcome.